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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

Humanoid control systems have made significant progress in recent years, yet modeling fluent interaction-rich behavior between a robot, its surrounding environment, and task-relevant objects remains a fundamental challenge. This difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yanghao Zhou , Jingyu Ma , Yibo Peng , Zhenguo Sun , Yu Bai , Börje F. Karlsson

Dexterous manipulation remains a challenging robotics problem, largely due to the difficulty of collecting extensive human demonstrations for learning. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{Gen2Real}, which replaces costly human demos with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Kai Ye , Yuhang Wu , Shuyuan Hu , Junliang Li , Meng Liu , Yongquan Chen , Rui Huang

We present a method for generating a full 360{\deg} orbit video around a person from a single input image. Existing methods typically adapt image-based diffusion models for multi-view synthesis, but yield inconsistent results across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Keito Suzuki , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

Modern video generative models based on diffusion models can produce very realistic clips, but they are computationally inefficient, often requiring minutes of GPU time for just a few seconds of video. This inefficiency poses a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jieying Chen , Jeffrey Hu , Joan Lasenby , Ayush Tewari

Generating realistic and controllable human motions, particularly those involving rich multi-character interactions, remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexities of modeling inter-personal dynamics. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ruihao Xi , Xuekuan Wang , Yongcheng Li , Shuhua Li , Zichen Wang , Yiwei Wang , Feng Wei , Cairong Zhao

Existing dynamic scene generation methods mostly rely on distilling knowledge from pre-trained 3D generative models, which are typically fine-tuned on synthetic object datasets. As a result, the generated scenes are often object-centric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Heng Yu , Chaoyang Wang , Peiye Zhuang , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Laszlo A Jeni , Sergey Tulyakov , Hsin-Ying Lee

The field of generative models has recently witnessed significant progress, with diffusion models showing remarkable performance in image generation. In light of this success, there is a growing interest in exploring the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ariel Lapid , Idan Achituve , Lior Bracha , Ethan Fetaya

State-of-the-art diffusion models can generate highly realistic images based on various conditioning like text, segmentation, and depth. However, an essential aspect often overlooked is the specific camera geometry used during image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Andrey Voynov , Amir Hertz , Moab Arar , Shlomi Fruchter , Daniel Cohen-Or

Self-captured full-body videos are popular, but most deployments require mounted cameras, carefully-framed shots, and repeated practice. We propose a more convenient solution that enables full-body video capture using handheld mobile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bowei Chen , Brian Curless , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman , Steven M. Seitz

Current video generation models cannot simulate physical consequences of 3D actions like forces and robotic manipulations, as they lack structural understanding of how actions affect 3D scenes. We present RealWonder, the first real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Wei Liu , Ziyu Chen , Zizhang Li , Yue Wang , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

Video generative models can be regarded as world simulators due to their ability to capture dynamic, continuous changes inherent in real-world environments. These models integrate high-dimensional information across visual, temporal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hengyuan Cao , Yutong Feng , Biao Gong , Yijing Tian , Yunhong Lu , Chuang Liu , Bin Wang

Video diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable progress in realism and controllability. However, achieving seamless video translation across different perspectives, such as first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Quanjian Song , Yiren Song , Kelly Peng , Yuan Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

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

Existing video generation models excel at producing photo-realistic videos from text or images, but often lack physical plausibility and 3D controllability. To overcome these limitations, we introduce PhysCtrl, a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Yiming Huang , Zhiyang Dou , Yuan Liu , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

We explore a novel video creation experience, namely Video Creation by Demonstration. Given a demonstration video and a context image from a different scene, we generate a physically plausible video that continues naturally from the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yihong Sun , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Jennifer J. Sun , Yandong Li , Xuhui Jia , Hartwig Adam , Bharath Hariharan , Long Zhao , Ting Liu

Recent progress in generative models has stimulated significant innovations in many fields, such as image generation and chatbots. Despite their success, these models often produce sketchy and misleading solutions for complex multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyang Liu , Xinrui Yang , Shiguang Sun , Long Qian , Lipeng Wan , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

Personalized image generation, where reference images of one or more subjects are used to generate their image according to a scene description, has gathered significant interest in the community. However, such generated images suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Parul Gupta , Abhinav Dhall , Thanh-Toan Do