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Various world model frameworks are being developed today based on autoregressive frameworks that rely on discrete representations of actions and observations, and these frameworks are succeeding in constructing interactive generative models…

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Generating videos for visual storytelling can be a tedious and complex process that typically requires either live-action filming or graphics animation rendering. To bypass these challenges, our key idea is to utilize the abundance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yingqing He , Menghan Xia , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Yuan Gong , Jinbo Xing , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Chao Weng , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Video-based world models have recently garnered increasing attention for their ability to synthesize diverse and dynamic visual environments. In this paper, we focus on shared world modeling, where a model generates multiple videos from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Jiacheng Wei , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Junyou Li , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

We present InfiniCube, a scalable method for generating unbounded dynamic 3D driving scenes with high fidelity and controllability. Previous methods for scene generation either suffer from limited scales or lack geometric and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yifan Lu , Xuanchi Ren , Jiawei Yang , Tianchang Shen , Zhangjie Wu , Jun Gao , Yue Wang , Siheng Chen , Mike Chen , Sanja Fidler , Jiahui Huang

In model-based reinforcement learning, generative and temporal models of environments can be leveraged to boost agent performance, either by tuning the agent's representations during training or via use as part of an explicit planning…

Recent advancements in image-conditioned image generation have demonstrated substantial progress. However, foreground-conditioned image generation remains underexplored, encountering challenges such as compromised object integrity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianyidan Xie , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Xiaoqian Ye , Feixuan Liu , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation. However, current models do not yet convey the feeling of truly interactive communication, often generating one-way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Taekyung Ki , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Data-driven learning has advanced autonomous driving, yet task-specific models struggle with out-of-distribution scenarios due to their narrow optimization objectives and reliance on costly annotated data. We present DriveX, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Shi , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang

Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yixuan Zhu , Jiaqi Feng , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuan Gao , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The development of artificial intelligence systems is transitioning from creating static, task-specific models to dynamic, agent-based systems capable of performing well in a wide range of applications. We propose an Interactive Agent…

Over the course of the last several years there was a strong interest in application of modern optimal control techniques to the field of character animation. This interest was fueled by introduction of efficient learning based algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Joe Booth , Vladimir Ivanov

Generating human motions from textual descriptions has gained growing research interest due to its wide range of applications. However, only a few works consider human-scene interactions together with text conditions, which is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhi Cen , Huaijin Pi , Sida Peng , Zehong Shen , Minghui Yang , Shuai Zhu , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We introduce LivingWorld, an interactive framework for generating 4D worlds with environmental dynamics from a single image. While recent advances in 3D scene generation enable large-scale environment creation, most approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hyeongju Mun , In-Hwan Jin , Sohyeong Kim , Kyeongbo Kong

Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shengqu Cai , Duygu Ceylan , Matheus Gadelha , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Tuanfeng Yang Wang , Gordon Wetzstein

Existing video avatar models can produce fluid human animations, yet they struggle to move beyond mere physical likeness to capture a character's authentic essence. Their motions typically synchronize with low-level cues like audio rhythm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianwen Jiang , Weihong Zeng , Zerong Zheng , Jiaqi Yang , Chao Liang , Wang Liao , Han Liang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Synthesizing 3D human avatars interacting realistically with a scene is an important problem with applications in AR/VR, video games and robotics. Towards this goal, we address the task of generating a virtual human -- hands and full body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Purva Tendulkar , Dídac Surís , Carl Vondrick

Long-term video generation and prediction remain challenging tasks in computer vision, particularly in partially observable scenarios where cameras are mounted on moving platforms. The interaction between observed image frames and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose

Image animation is a key task in computer vision which aims to generate dynamic visual content from static image. Recent image animation methods employ neural based rendering technique to generate realistic animations. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zuozhuo Dai , Zhenghao Zhang , Yao Yao , Bingxue Qiu , Siyu Zhu , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

We provide a dataset that enables the creation of learning agents that can build knowledge graph-based world models of interactive narratives. Interactive narratives -- or text-adventure games -- are partially observable environments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

The production of 2D animation follows an industry-standard workflow, encompassing four essential stages: character design, keyframe animation, in-betweening, and coloring. Our research focuses on reducing the labor costs in the above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yihao Meng , Hao Ouyang , Hanlin Wang , Qiuyu Wang , Wen Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Huamin Qu