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Stochastic video prediction enables the consideration of uncertainty in future motion, thereby providing a better reflection of the dynamic nature of the environment. Stochastic video prediction methods based on image auto-regressive…

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Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nick Stracke , Kolja Bauer , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Björn Ommer

Recent text-to-video generation models have made remarkable progress in visual realism, motion fidelity, and text-video alignment, yet they still struggle to produce socially coherent behavior. Unlike humans, who readily infer intentions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wenshuo Peng , Gongxuan Wang , Tianmeng Yang , Chuanhao Li , Xiaojie Xu , Hui He , Kaipeng Zhang

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Boyuan Wang , Xinze Chen , Jiwen Lu

Recent advances in image and video generation raise hopes that these models possess world modeling capabilities, the ability to generate realistic, physically plausible videos. This could revolutionize applications in robotics, autonomous…

Video understanding aims to enable models to perceive, reason about, and interact with the dynamic visual world. In contrast to image understanding, video understanding inherently requires modeling temporal dynamics and evolving visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhaochong An , Zirui Li , Mingqiao Ye , Feng Qiao , Jiaang Li , Zongwei Wu , Vishal Thengane , Chengzu Li , Lei Li , Luc Van Gool , Guolei Sun , Serge Belongie

Motion generation, the task of synthesizing realistic motion sequences from various conditioning inputs, has become a central problem in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics, with applications ranging from animation and virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Bruno Roy , Larasika Nadela , Noa Kaplan , Evan Atherton , Derek Cheung , Jacky Bibliowicz

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

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 generation is a rapidly advancing research area, garnering significant attention due to its broad range of applications. One critical aspect of this field is the generation of long-duration videos, which presents unique challenges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chengxuan Li , Di Huang , Zeyu Lu , Yang Xiao , Qingqi Pei , Lei Bai

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

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

Video diffusion models have recently shown promise for world modeling through autoregressive frame prediction conditioned on actions. However, they struggle to maintain long-term memory due to the high computational cost associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ryan Po , Yotam Nitzan , Richard Zhang , Berlin Chen , Tri Dao , Eli Shechtman , Gordon Wetzstein , Xun Huang

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Andrew Melnik , Michal Ljubljanac , Cong Lu , Qi Yan , Weiming Ren , Helge Ritter

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Video world models should maintain evolving states when evidence is unobserved, yet current generators often freeze hidden states upon interruption. This is not simply a capacity problem: pretrained video diffusion transformers already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tianshuo Xu , Yichen Xie , Depu Meng , Chensheng Peng , Quentin Herau , Bo Jiang , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz