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Producing long, coherent video sequences with stable 3D structure remains a major challenge, particularly in streaming scenarios. Motivated by this, we introduce Endless World, a real-time framework for infinite, 3D-consistent video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ke Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Jiacong Xu , Vishal M. Patel

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Understanding the dynamic physical world, characterized by its evolving 3D structure, real-world motion, and semantic content with textual descriptions, is crucial for human-agent interaction and enables embodied agents to perceive and act…

We present a novel motion generation approach for robot arms, with high degrees of freedom, in complex settings that can adapt online to obstacles or new via points. Learning from Demonstration facilitates rapid adaptation to new tasks and…

Current video generation models produce high-quality aesthetic videos but often struggle to learn representations of real-world physics dynamics, resulting in artifacts such as unnatural object collisions, inconsistent gravity, and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Siddarth Nilol Kundur Satish , Devesh Jaiswal , Hongyu Chen , Abhishek Bakshi

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Automatically generating training supervision for embodied tasks is crucial, as manual designing is tedious and not scalable. While prior works use large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs) to generate rewards, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xiaowen Qiu , Yian Wang , Jiting Cai , Zhehuan Chen , Chunru Lin , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Chuang Gan

Recent progress in robot learning has been driven by large-scale datasets and powerful visuomotor policy architectures, yet policy robustness remains limited by the substantial cost of collecting diverse demonstrations, particularly for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujie Zhao , Hongwei Fan , Di Chen , Shengcong Chen , Liliang Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

The scarcity of manipulation data has motivated the use of pretrained large models from other modalities in robotics. In this work, we build upon autoregressive video generation models to propose a Physical Autoregressive Model (PAR), where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zijian Song , Sihan Qin , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Teaching an anthropomorphic robot from human example offers the opportunity to impart humanlike qualities on its movement. In this work we present a reinforcement learning based method for teaching a real world bipedal robot to perform…

Recent generative video models achieve impressive visual quality but remain constrained by limited physical consistency and controllability. Existing video generation methods provide minimal physical control, and single-image-to-3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xin Zhang , Yabo Chen , Yijie Fang , Wanying Qu , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Feng Xu , Xuelong Li

Action-conditioned video prediction models (often referred to as world models) have shown strong potential for robotics applications, but existing approaches are often slow and struggle to capture physically consistent interactions over…

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyan Tu , Hanxin Zhu , Jingwen Sun , Shaojie Ren , Cong Wang , Jiayi Luo , Xiaoqian Cheng , Zhibo Chen

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic visual representations as a basis to learn (task-specific)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianren Wang , Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

One compelling application of artificial intelligence is to generate a video of a target person performing arbitrary desired motion (from a source person). While the state-of-the-art methods are able to synthesize a video demonstrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zhenguang Liu , Sifan Wu , Chejian Xu , Xiang Wang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Wu , Fuli Feng

We present PanoWorld, a panoramic video world model that generates geometry-consistent 360$\degree$ video from a single image and a caption. Existing panoramic video methods optimize primarily for visual realism and do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Le Jiang , Xiangyu Bai , Bishoy Galoaa , Shayda Moezzi , Caleb James Lee , Tooba Imtiaz , Edmund Yeh , Jennifer Dy , Yanzhi Wang , Sarah Ostadabbas