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Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

Learning a physical model from video data that can comprehend physical laws and predict the future trajectories of objects is a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Prior approaches either leverage various Partial Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nengbo Lu , Minghua Pan

Controllable generation of 3D human motions becomes an important topic as the world embraces digital transformation. Existing works, though making promising progress with the advent of diffusion models, heavily rely on meticulously captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Nhat M. Hoang , Kehong Gong , Chuan Guo , Michael Bi Mi

We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guanqi Zhan , Xianzheng Ma , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Real objects that inhabit the physical world follow physical laws and thus behave plausibly during interaction with other physical objects. However, current methods that perform 3D reconstructions of real-world scenes from multi-view 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuqiu Liu , Jialin Song , Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte , Rochishnu Chowdhury , Rushil Paresh Desai , Wuyang Chen , Daniel Martin , Michael W. Mahoney

Recent advances in video diffusion models have enabled the generation of high-quality videos. However, these videos still suffer from unrealistic deformations, semantic violations, and physical inconsistencies that are largely rooted in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shurui Gui , Deep Anil Patel , Xiner Li , Martin Renqiang Min

We introduce DiffPhy, a differentiable physics-based model for articulated 3d human motion reconstruction from video. Applications of physics-based reasoning in human motion analysis have so far been limited, both by the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Erwin Coumans , Cristian Sminchisescu

Generating semantically aligned human motion from textual descriptions has made rapid progress, but ensuring both semantic and physical realism in motion remains a challenge. In this paper, we introduce the Distortion-aware Motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Gahyeon Shim , Soogeun Park , Hyemin Ahn

Existing image-to-video generation methods often produce physically implausible motions and lack precise control over object dynamics. While prior approaches have incorporated physics simulators, they remain confined to 2D planar motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyidan Xie , Zhentao Huang , Mingjie Wang , Xin Huang , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong , Zili Yi

Discovering physical laws directly from high-dimensional visual data is a long-standing human pursuit but remains a formidable challenge for machines, representing a fundamental goal of scientific intelligence. This task is inherently…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ruikun Li , Jun Yao , Yingfan Hua , Shixiang Tang , Biqing Qi , Bin Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Yan Lu

Perceiving the shape and material of an object from a single image is inherently ambiguous, especially when lighting is unknown and unconstrained. Despite this, humans can often disentangle shape and material, and when they are uncertain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinran Nicole Han , Ko Nishino , Todd Zickler

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xindi Yang , Baolu Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Liqian Ma , Zhiyong Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

The task of text2motion is to generate human motion sequences from given textual descriptions, where the model explores diverse mappings from natural language instructions to human body movements. While most existing works are confined to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Kunhang Li , Yansong Feng

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

Dynamic scene reconstruction is a long-term challenge in the field of 3D vision. Recently, the emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting has provided new insights into this problem. Although subsequent efforts rapidly extend static 3D Gaussian to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ruijie Zhu , Yanzhe Liang , Hanzhi Chang , Jiacheng Deng , Jiahao Lu , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Recent advances in 3D content generation have amplified demand for dynamic models that are both visually realistic and physically consistent. However, state-of-the-art video diffusion models frequently produce implausible results such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu

Despite the recent progress in text-to-video generation, existing studies usually overlook the issue that only spatial contents but not temporal motions in synthesized videos are under the control of text. Towards such a challenge, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xi Chen , Zhiheng Liu , Mengting Chen , Yutong Feng , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

We present Animus3D, a text-driven 3D animation framework that generates motion field given a static 3D asset and text prompt. Previous methods mostly leverage the vanilla Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) objective to distill motion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Qi Sun , Can Wang , Jiaxiang Shang , Wensen Feng , Jing Liao

Reconstructing simulation-ready deformable objects is important for vision, graphics, and robotics. Existing physics-driven methods can recover physical digital twins from videos, but they suffer from two fundamental limitations: they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Yang , Yiyan Wang , Zheming Liu , Naoya Iwamoto

Recent diffusion-based text-to-image customization methods have achieved significant success in understanding concrete concepts to control generation processes, such as styles and shapes. However, few efforts dive into the realistic yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Cheng Chen , Zhoujie Fu , Jiacheng Wei , Yi Xu , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin