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Diffusion generative models have recently become a powerful technique for creating and modifying high-quality, coherent video content. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the critical components of diffusion models for video…

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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…

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Physical principles are fundamental to realistic visual simulation, but remain a significant oversight in transformer-based video generation. This gap highlights a critical limitation in rendering rigid body motion, a core tenet of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Qiyuan Zhang , Biao Gong , Shuai Tan , Zheng Zhang , Yujun Shen , Xing Zhu , Yuyuan Li , Kelu Yao , Chunhua Shen , Changqing Zou

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

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 investigate how to enhance the physical fidelity of video generation models by leveraging synthetic videos derived from computer graphics pipelines. These rendered videos respect real-world physics, such as maintaining 3D consistency,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Qi Zhao , Xingyu Ni , Ziyu Wang , Feng Cheng , Ziyan Yang , Lu Jiang , Bohan Wang

Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly in the last few years. With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable unsupervised learning paradigms, recent large-scale generative models…

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

Video world models can generate realistic futures from a single instruction, but they often fail to preserve consistent point-level motion over time. As a result, the generated videos appear plausible, yet lack the physical grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kaichen Zhou , Yuzhen Chen , Fangneng Zhan , Hang Hua , Grace Chen , Xinhai Chang , Ao Qu , Yilun Du , Zhuang Liu , Paul Pu Liang , Mengyu Wang

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

Advancements in language foundation models have primarily fueled the recent surge in artificial intelligence. In contrast, generative learning of non-textual modalities, especially videos, significantly trails behind language modeling. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lijun Yu

Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyan Tu , Hanxin Zhu , Jingwen Sun , Shaojie Ren , Cong Wang , Jiayi Luo , Xiaoqian Cheng , Zhibo Chen

We address the problem of generating a 3D-consistent, navigable environment that is spatially grounded: a simulation of a real location. Existing video generative models can produce a plausible sequence that is consistent with a text (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gene Chou , Charles Herrmann , Kyle Genova , Boyang Deng , Songyou Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Jason Y. Zhang , Noah Snavely , Philipp Henzler

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

Vision systems to see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their locations, ambiguities, and variations in the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Muhammad Awais , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal , Mubarak Shah , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The popularity of Deep Learning for real-world applications is ever-growing. With the introduction of high performance hardware, applications are no longer limited to image recognition. With the introduction of more complex problems comes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Liam Hiley , Alun Preece , Yulia Hicks

Generative models that can model and predict sequences of future events can, in principle, learn to capture complex real-world phenomena, such as physical interactions. However, a central challenge in video prediction is that the future is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Manoj Kumar , Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Dumitru Erhan , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Laurent Dinh , Durk Kingma