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World simulation has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to model virtual environments and predict the consequences of actions. However, the limited temporal context window often leads to failures in maintaining long-term…

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Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

We present an efficient spacetime optimization method to automatically generate animations for a general volumetric, elastically deformable body. Our approach can model the interactions between the body and the environment and automatically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Zherong Pan , Dinesh Manocha

This paper presents the three scripting commands and main functionalities of a novel character animation environment called CHASE. CHASE was developed for enabling inexperienced programmers, animators, artists, and students to animate in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Christos Mousas

Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynamics and interactive behaviors. However, existing interactive world models depend on…

Generating animated 3D objects is at the heart of many applications, yet most advanced works are typically difficult to apply in practice because of their limited setup, their long runtime, or their limited quality. We introduce ActionMesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Remy Sabathier , David Novotny , Niloy J. Mitra , Tom Monnier

The field of video generation has expanded significantly in recent years, with controllable and compositional video generation garnering considerable interest. Most methods rely on leveraging annotations such as text, objects' bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Aram Davtyan , Sepehr Sameni , Björn Ommer , Paolo Favaro

A plausible scene evolution depends on the maneuver being considered, while a good maneuver depends on how the scene may evolve. Existing World Action Models (WAMs) largely miss this reciprocity, treating world prediction and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongbo Lu , Liang Yao , Chenghao He , Haoyu Wang , Xiang Gu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Conditional motion generation has been extensively studied in computer vision, yet two critical challenges remain. First, while masked autoregressive methods have recently outperformed diffusion-based approaches, existing masking models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Wei Mao , Danning Li , Rui Zhao , Biao Wu , Zirui Song , Bohan Zhuang , Ian Reid , Richard Hartley

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

Embodied agents struggle to generalize to new environments, even when those environments share similar underlying structures to their training settings. Most current approaches to generating these training environments follow an open-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Teresa Yeo , Dulaj Weerakoon , Dulanga Weerakoon , Archan Misra

Digital human generation has been studied for decades and supports a wide range of real-world applications. However, most existing systems are passively animated, relying on privileged state or scripted control, which limits scalability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hang Ye , Xiaoxuan Ma , Fan Lu , Wayne Wu , Kwan-Yee Lin , Yizhou Wang

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

Identity-preserving video generation offers powerful tools for creative expression, allowing users to customize videos featuring their beloved characters. However, prevailing methods are typically designed and optimized for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiahao Wang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Yuxiao Yang , Weizhan Zhang , Caixia Yan , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye

Robotic imitation learning has advanced from solving static tasks to addressing dynamic interaction scenarios, but testing and evaluation remain costly and challenging due to the need for real-time interaction with dynamic environments. We…

We present a fully automatic system that takes a 3D scene and generates plausible 3D human bodies that are posed naturally in that 3D scene. Given a 3D scene without people, humans can easily imagine how people could interact with the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yan Zhang , Mohamed Hassan , Heiko Neumann , Michael J. Black , Siyu Tang

World building forms the foundation of any task that requires narrative intelligence. In this work, we focus on procedurally generating interactive fiction worlds---text-based worlds that players "see" and "talk to" using natural language.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Wesley Cheung , Dan Tu , William Broniec , Mark O. Riedl

Imagine Mr. Bean stepping into Tom and Jerry--can we generate videos where characters interact naturally across different worlds? We study inter-character interaction in text-to-video generation, where the key challenge is to preserve each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tingting Liao , Chongjian Ge , Guangyi Liu , Hao Li , Yi Zhou

Human-motion generation is a long-standing challenging task due to the requirement of accurately modeling complex and diverse dynamic patterns. Most existing methods adopt sequence models such as RNN to directly model transitions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhenyi Wang , Ping Yu , Yang Zhao , Ruiyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Junsong Yuan , Changyou Chen

We introduce Matrix-Game, an interactive world foundation model for controllable game world generation. Matrix-Game is trained using a two-stage pipeline that first performs large-scale unlabeled pretraining for environment understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yifan Zhang , Chunli Peng , Boyang Wang , Puyi Wang , Qingcheng Zhu , Fei Kang , Biao Jiang , Zedong Gao , Eric Li , Yang Liu , Yahui Zhou