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This work introduces Robots Imitating Generated Videos (RIGVid), a system that enables robots to perform complex manipulation tasks--such as pouring, wiping, and mixing--purely by imitating AI-generated videos, without requiring any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shivansh Patel , Shraddhaa Mohan , Hanlin Mai , Unnat Jain , Svetlana Lazebnik , Yunzhu Li

Vision-based learning methods provide promise for robots to learn complex manipulation tasks. However, how to generalize the learned manipulation skills to real-world interactions remains an open question. In this work, we study robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhixin Jia , Mengxiang Lin , Zhixin Chen , Shibo Jian

Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xiao Tang , Jiayi Luo , Xin Jin , Long Chen , Zhibo Chen

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiehui Huang , Yuechen Zhang , Xu He , Yuan Gao , Zhi Cen , Bin Xia , Yan Zhou , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jiaya Jia

Reconstructing physically plausible human motion from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Existing methods primarily focus on kinematics-based pose estimation, often leading to unrealistic results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Qiao Feng , Yiming Huang , Yufu Wang , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) enables robots to acquire versatile skills by learning motion policies from human demonstrations. It endows users with an intuitive interface to transfer new skills to robots without the need for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianyong Sun , Jens Kober , Michael Gienger , Jihong Zhu

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

Generating videos with realistic and physically plausible motion is one of the main recent challenges in computer vision. While diffusion models are achieving compelling results in image generation, video diffusion models are limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Luca Savant Aira , Antonio Montanaro , Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Data-driven character animation based on motion capture can produce highly naturalistic behaviors and, when combined with physics simulation, can provide for natural procedural responses to physical perturbations, environmental changes, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoran Lu , Shang Wu , Jianshu Zhang , Maojiang Su , Guo Ye , Chenwei Xu , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu

Learning behavior in legged robots presents a significant challenge due to its inherent instability and complex constraints. Recent research has proposed the use of a large language model (LLM) to generate reward functions in reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Runhao Zeng , Dingjie Zhou , Qiwei Liang , Junlin Liu , Hui Li , Changxin Huang , Jianqiang Li , Xiping Hu , Fuchun Sun

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

This work highlights that video world modeling, alongside vision-language pre-training, establishes a fresh and independent foundation for robot learning. Intuitively, video world models provide the ability to imagine the near future by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lin Li , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Luo , Shuai Yang , Ruilin Wang , Fei Han , Mingrui Yu , Zelin Gao , Nan Xue , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu

Building an efficient and physically consistent world model from limited observations is a long standing challenge in vision and robotics. Many existing world modeling pipelines are based on implicit generative models, which are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wenhao Hu , Xuexiang Wen , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

We introduce RoLA, a framework that transforms any in-the-wild image into an interactive, physics-enabled robotic environment. Unlike previous methods, RoLA operates directly on a single image without requiring additional hardware or…

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Recent advances in 3D content generation have amplified demand for dynamic models that are both visually realistic and physically consistent. However, state-of-the-art video diffusion models frequently produce implausible results such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu