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Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

Image and video synthesis are closely related areas aiming at generating content from noise. While rapid progress has been demonstrated in improving image-based models to handle large resolutions, high-quality renderings, and wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yu Tian , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Kyle Olszewski , Xi Peng , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov

World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Riccardo Mereu , Aidan Scannell , Yuxin Hou , Yi Zhao , Aditya Jitta , Antonio Dominguez , Luigi Acerbi , Amos Storkey , Paul Chang

Autonomous robots typically need to construct representations of their surroundings and adapt their motions to the geometry of their environment. Here, we tackle the problem of constructing a policy model for collision-free motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Weiming Zhi , Ziyong Ma , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

In real life, grasping is one of the fundamental and effective forms of interaction when manipulating objects. This holds true in the physical and virtual world; however, unlike the physical world, virtual reality (VR) is grasped in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Mingzhao Zhou , Nadine Aburumman

Generating interaction-centric videos, such as those depicting humans or robots interacting with objects, is crucial for embodied intelligence, as they provide rich and diverse visual priors for robot learning, manipulation policy training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Gen Li , Bo Zhao , Jianfei Yang , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Visual-based human action recognition can be found in various application fields, e.g., surveillance systems, sports analytics, medical assistive technologies, or human-robot interaction frameworks, and it concerns the identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Antonios Gasteratos , Stavros N. Moutsis , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Yiannis Aloimonos

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Generating 3D models lies at the core of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. With the emergence of advanced neural representations and generative models, the field of 3D content generation is developing rapidly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xiaoyu Li , Qi Zhang , Di Kang , Weihao Cheng , Yiming Gao , Jingbo Zhang , Zhihao Liang , Jing Liao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

Video is a rich and scalable source of 3D/4D visual observations, and camera control is a key capability for video generation models to produce geometrically meaningful content. Existing approaches typically learn a mapping from camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chen Hou , Christian Rupprecht

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable success in a number of domains. However, for sequential decision-making problems, such as robotics, action-labelled data is often scarce and therefore scaling-up foundation models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Marc Rigter , Tarun Gupta , Agrin Hilmkil , Chao Ma

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across video, image, and language domains. By scaling up the number of parameters and training datasets, these models acquire generalizable world knowledge and often surpass task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tung Nguyen , Arsh Koneru , Shufan Li , Aditya Grover

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoran Lu , Shang Wu , Jianshu Zhang , Maojiang Su , Guo Ye , Chenwei Xu , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu

World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and predict the dynamic environments they inhabit. While prior work largely emphasizes generative methods for 2D image and video data, they…

Video generation aims to produce temporally coherent sequences of visual frames, representing a pivotal advancement in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). Compared to static image generation, video generation poses unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhiyu Yin , Kehai Chen , Xuefeng Bai , Ruili Jiang , Juntao Li , Hongdong Li , Jin Liu , Yang Xiang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Videos are more informative than images because they capture the dynamics of the scene. By representing motion in videos, we can capture dynamic activities. In this work, we introduce GPT-4 generated motion descriptions that capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chinmaya Devaraj , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Generative models hold promise for revolutionizing medical education, robot-assisted surgery, and data augmentation for machine learning. Despite progress in generating 2D medical images, the complex domain of clinical video generation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chenxin Li , Hengyu Liu , Yifan Liu , Brandon Y. Feng , Wuyang Li , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Chen , Jing Shao , Yixuan Yuan

Imitation learning has emerged as a promising approach towards building generalist robots. However, scaling imitation learning for large robot foundation models remains challenging due to its reliance on high-quality expert demonstrations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chuning Zhu , Raymond Yu , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Paarth Shah , Abhishek Gupta

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu