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Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Byungjun Kim , Taeksoo Kim , Junyoung Lee , Hanbyul Joo

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

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

Understanding, navigating, and exploring the 3D physical real world has long been a central challenge in the development of artificial intelligence. In this work, we take a step toward this goal by introducing GenEx, a system capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Taiming Lu , Tianmin Shu , Junfei Xiao , Luoxin Ye , Jiahao Wang , Cheng Peng , Chen Wei , Daniel Khashabi , Rama Chellappa , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

Urban areas, as the primary human habitat in modern civilization, accommodate a broad spectrum of social activities. With the surge of embodied intelligence, recent years have witnessed an increasing presence of physical agents in urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shougao Zhang , Mengqi Zhou , Yuxi Wang , Chuanchen Luo , Rongyu Wang , Yiwei Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

Recent research has been increasingly focusing on developing 3D world models that simulate complex real-world scenarios. World models have found broad applications across various domains, including embodied AI, autonomous driving,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yinglin Duan , Zhengxia Zou , Tongwei Gu , Wei Jia , Zhan Zhao , Luyi Xu , Xinzhu Liu , Yenan Lin , Hao Jiang , Kang Chen , Shuang Qiu

Recent 3D world modeling systems based on generative scene synthesis, such as Marble, can create coherent and explorable 3D environments, yet their outputs are typically static monolithic assets with limited editability and physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jichen Hu , Jiawei Guo , Jiazhong Cen , Chen Yang , Sikuang Li , Wei Shen

Character image animation, which generates high-quality videos from a reference image and target pose sequence, has seen significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods only apply to human figures, which usually do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Dandan Zheng , Ruobing Zheng , Kecheng Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, reasoning, and action. Yet current research still lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jianjie Fang , Yingshan Lei , Qin Wan , Ziyou Wang , Yuchao Huang , Yongyan Xu , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

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

We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zehuan Huang , Haoran Feng , Yangtian Sun , Yuanchen Guo , Yanpei Cao , Lu Sheng

Scalable and reliable evaluation is increasingly critical in the end-to-end era of autonomous driving, where vision--language--action (VLA) policies directly map raw sensor streams to driving actions. Yet, current evaluation pipelines still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chaoda Zheng , Sean Li , Jinhao Deng , Zhennan Wang , Shijia Chen , Liqiang Xiao , Ziheng Chi , Hongbin Lin , Kangjie Chen , Boyang Wang , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu

Automating immersive VR scene creation remains a primary research challenge. Existing methods typically rely on complex geometry with post-simplification, resulting in inefficient pipelines or limited realism. In this paper, we introduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jinyan Yuan , Bangbang Yang , Keke Wang , Panwang Pan , Lin Ma , Xuehai Zhang , Xiao Liu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yuewen Ma

Recent approaches have demonstrated the promise of using diffusion models to generate interactive and explorable worlds. However, most of these methods face critical challenges such as excessively large parameter sizes, reliance on lengthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Xiaojie Xu , Kaining Ying , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

We present a unified controllable video generation approach AnimateAnything that facilitates precise and consistent video manipulation across various conditions, including camera trajectories, text prompts, and user motion annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Guojun Lei , Chi Wang , Hong Li , Rong Zhang , Yikai Wang , Weiwei Xu

Character animation is a transformative field in computer graphics and vision, enabling dynamic and realistic video animations from static images. Despite advancements, maintaining appearance consistency in animations remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaoyu Jin , Zunnan Xu , Mingwen Ou , Wenming Yang

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu