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Generalist robot policies can now perform a wide range of manipulation skills, but evaluating and improving their ability with unfamiliar objects and instructions remains a significant challenge. Rigorous evaluation requires a large number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yanjiang Guo , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Chelsea Finn

Learning world models can teach an agent how the world works in an unsupervised manner. Even though it can be viewed as a special case of sequence modeling, progress for scaling world models on robotic applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lunjun Zhang , Yuwen Xiong , Ze Yang , Sergio Casas , Rui Hu , Raquel Urtasun

World models have been developed to support sample-efficient deep reinforcement learning agents. However, it remains challenging for world models to accurately replicate environments that are high-dimensional, non-stationary, and composed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yosuke Nishimoto , Takashi Matsubara

We introduce a method to generate temporally coherent human animation from a single image, a video, or a random noise. This problem has been formulated as modeling of an auto-regressive generation, i.e., to regress past frames to decode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Tserendorj Adiya , Jae Shin Yoon , Jungeun Lee , Sanghun Kim , Hwasup Lim

World models have recently gained prominence for action-conditioned visual prediction in complex environments. However, relying on only a few recent observations causes them to lose long-term context. Consequently, within a few steps, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Nedko Savov , Naser Kazemi , Deheng Zhang , Danda Pani Paudel , Xi Wang , Luc Van Gool

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li

World models, especially in autonomous driving, are trending and drawing extensive attention due to their capacity for comprehending driving environments. The established world model holds immense potential for the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Jiagang Zhu , Jiwen Lu

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Controllable generation, which enables fine-grained control over generated outputs, has emerged as a critical focus in visual generative models. Currently, there are two primary technical approaches in visual generation: diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ziyu Yao , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Yuexian Zou , Lei Li

Advancements in neural implicit representations and differentiable rendering have markedly improved the ability to learn animatable 3D avatars from sparse multi-view RGB videos. However, current methods that map observation space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zichen Tang , Hongyu Yang , Hanchen Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

Large-scale text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have great progress in recent years in terms of visual quality, motion and temporal consistency. However, the generation process is still a black box, where all attributes (e.g., appearance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jiwen Yu , Xiaodong Cun , Chenyang Qi , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Jian Zhang

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific training. We attribute this limitation to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tuo An , Jindou Jia , Gen Li , Jingliang Li , Chuhao Zhou , Pengfei Liu , Bofan Lyu , Jiaqi Bai , Xinying Guo , Geng Li , Jianfei Yang

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable advancement, yet faithfully following complex textual descriptions remains challenging due to insufficient interactions between textual and visual features. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Binglei Li , Mengping Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Junping Zhang , Hao Li

Autonomous driving relies on robust models trained on high-quality, large-scale multi-view driving videos. While world models offer a cost-effective solution for generating realistic driving videos, they struggle to maintain instance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhuoran Yang , Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Chiyu Wang , Wei Wu , Yanyong Zhang

Physical world knowledge resides mainly in videos. Equipping Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with such knowledge is fundamental for safe and generalizable planning. Predictive world modeling enables VLA to internalize physical dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Baolu Li , Jingyu Qian , Rui Guo , Yilun Chen , Hanpeng Liu , Yuan Lin , Junhong Zhou , Ruixin Liu , Willow Yang , Yutong Zheng , Zhenli Zhang , Tenglong , Gu , Zhuangzhuang Ding , Pengkun Zheng , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu

Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

In the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous driving, the capability to accurately predict future events and assess their implications is paramount for both safety and efficiency, critically aiding the decision-making process. World…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Zhenning Li , Jia Hu , Runze Yuan , Yunjian Li , Guohui Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

Temporal modeling is crucial for various video learning tasks. Most recent approaches employ either factorized (2D+1D) or joint (3D) spatial-temporal operations to extract temporal contexts from the input frames. While the former is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yizhou Zhao , Zhenyang Li , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

Training AI agents to proactively assist humans in daily activities, from routine household tasks to urgent safety situations, requires large-scale visual data. However, capturing such scenarios in the real world is often difficult, costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Chien Tang , An-Zi Yen