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Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Training agents to act in embodied environments typically requires vast training data or access to accurate simulation, neither of which exists for many cases in the real world. Instead, world models are emerging as an alternative…

We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

While large models trained with self-supervised learning on offline datasets have shown remarkable capabilities in text and image domains, achieving the same generalisation for agents that act in sequential decision problems remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Michael Matthews , Michael Beukman , Chris Lu , Jakob Foerster

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Cities, as the essential environment of human life, encompass diverse physical elements such as buildings, roads and vegetation, which continuously interact with dynamic entities like people and vehicles. Crafting realistic, interactive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yu Shang , Yuming Lin , Yu Zheng , Hangyu Fan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Jiansheng Chen , Li Tian , Yong Li

Agents capable of reasoning and planning in the real world require the ability of predicting the consequences of their actions. While world models possess this capability, they most often require action labels, that can be complex to obtain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Quentin Garrido , Tushar Nagarajan , Basile Terver , Nicolas Ballas , Yann LeCun , Michael Rabbat

Modern generative video models excel at producing convincing, high-quality outputs, but struggle to maintain multi-view and spatiotemporal consistency in highly dynamic real-world environments. In this work, we introduce \textbf{AnyView}, a…

Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zijie Wu , Chaohui Yu , Fan Wang , Xiang Bai

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), video generation has emerged as one of its most dynamic and impactful subfields. In particular, the advancement of video generation foundation models has led to growing demand for…

Character video synthesis aims to produce realistic videos of animatable characters within lifelike scenes. As a fundamental problem in the computer vision and graphics community, 3D works typically require multi-view captures for per-case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yifang Men , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Real-time synthesis of physically plausible human interactions remains a critical challenge for immersive VR/AR systems and humanoid robotics. While existing methods demonstrate progress in kinematic motion generation, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kaiyang Ji , Ye Shi , Zichen Jin , Kangyi Chen , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang

We introduce animated stickers, a video diffusion model which generates an animation conditioned on a text prompt and static sticker image. Our model is built on top of the state-of-the-art Emu text-to-image model, with the addition of…

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

Recent advances in 4D generation mainly focus on generating 4D content by distilling pre-trained text or single-view image-conditioned models. It is inconvenient for them to take advantage of various off-the-shelf 3D assets with multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yanqin Jiang , Chaohui Yu , Chenjie Cao , Fan Wang , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

World models are increasingly pivotal in interpreting and simulating the rules and actions of complex environments. Genie, a recent model, excels at learning from visually diverse environments but relies on costly human-collected data. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Naser Kazemi , Nedko Savov , Danda Paudel , Luc Van Gool

We are given a video of a person performing a certain activity, from which we extract a controllable model. The model generates novel image sequences of that person, according to arbitrary user-defined control signals, typically marking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Oran Gafni , Lior Wolf , Yaniv Taigman

Large-scale endeavors like and widespread community efforts such as Open-X-Embodiment have contributed to growing the scale of robot demonstration data. However, there is still an opportunity to improve the quality, quantity, and diversity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jiafei Duan , Wentao Yuan , Wilbert Pumacay , Yi Ru Wang , Kiana Ehsani , Dieter Fox , Ranjay Krishna

Crafting magic and illusions is one of the most thrilling aspects of filmmaking, with visual effects (VFX) serving as the powerhouse behind unforgettable cinematic experiences. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinyu Liu , Ailing Zeng , Wei Xue , Harry Yang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Reliable perception is essential for robots that interact with the world. But sensors alone are often insufficient to provide this capability, and they are prone to errors due to various conditions in the environment. Furthermore, there is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ying Siu Liang , Dongkyu Choi , Kenneth Kwok
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