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Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

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Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

Human image animation involves generating videos from a character photo, allowing user control and unlocking the potential for video and movie production. While recent approaches yield impressive results using high-quality training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Youqing Fang , Yuwei Guo , Wenran Liu , Jing Tan , Kai Chen , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

We introduce DreamGen, a simple yet highly effective 4-stage pipeline for training robot policies that generalize across behaviors and environments through neural trajectories - synthetic robot data generated from video world models.…

Generating human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

Dexterous manipulation remains a challenging robotics problem, largely due to the difficulty of collecting extensive human demonstrations for learning. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{Gen2Real}, which replaces costly human demos with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Kai Ye , Yuhang Wu , Shuyuan Hu , Junliang Li , Meng Liu , Yongquan Chen , Rui Huang

Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Romero , Ariana Bermudez , Viacheslav Iablochnikov , Hao Li , Fabio Pizzati , Ivan Laptev

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

Gesture recognition research, unlike NLP, continues to face acute data scarcity, with progress constrained by the need for costly human recordings or image processing approaches that cannot generate authentic variability in the gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hassan Ali , Doreen Jirak , Luca Müller , Stefan Wermter

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We are committed to learning human skill generators at key-step levels. The generation of skills is a challenging endeavor, but its successful implementation could greatly facilitate human skill learning and provide more experience for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yilu Wu , Chenhui Zhu , Shuai Wang , Hanlin Wang , Jing Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Limin Wang

Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haoye Cai , Chunyan Bai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Human-motion video generation has been a challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty inherent in learning human body movements. While some approaches have attempted to drive human-centric video generation explicitly through pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Boyuan Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Zhiqin Yang , Zheng Zhu , Muyang Zhang , Yukun Zhou , Xinze Chen , Guan Huang , Lihong Liu , Xingang Wang

Bimanual manipulation is a longstanding challenge in robotics due to the large number of degrees of freedom and the strict spatial and temporal synchronization required to generate meaningful behavior. Humans learn bimanual manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arpit Bahety , Priyanka Mandikal , Ben Abbatematteo , Roberto Martín-Martín

Large-scale pre-trained video diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in diverse video generation. However, existing solutions face several challenges in generating long videos with rich human-scene interactions (HSI),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zekun Li , Rui Zhou , Rahul Sajnani , Xiaoyan Cong , Daniel Ritchie , Srinath Sridhar

Recent advances in model architectures, compute, and data scale have driven rapid progress in video generation, producing increasingly realistic content. Yet, no prior method systematically measures how faithfully these systems render human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yusu Fang , Tiange Xiang , Tian Tan , Narayan Schuetz , Scott Delp , Li Fei-Fei , Ehsan Adeli