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We tackle the task of reconstructing hand-object interactions from short video clips. Given an input video, our approach casts 3D inference as a per-video optimization and recovers a neural 3D representation of the object shape, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yufei Ye , Poorvi Hebbar , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

Conditioning image generation on specific features of the desired output is a key ingredient of modern generative models. However, existing approaches lack a general and unified way of representing structural and semantic conditioning at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Luca Butera , Andrea Cini , Alberto Ferrante , Cesare Alippi

Egocentric "walking tour" videos provide a rich source of image data to develop rich and diverse visual models of environments around the world. However, the significant presence of humans in frames of these videos due to crowds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yujin Ham , Junho Kim , Vivek Boominathan , Guha Balakrishnan

Generating multi-camera street-view videos is critical for augmenting autonomous driving datasets, addressing the urgent demand for extensive and varied data. Due to the limitations in diversity and challenges in handling lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jiachen Lu , Ze Huang , Zeyu Yang , Jiahui Zhang , Li Zhang

Recent diffusion methods have made significant progress in generating videos from single images due to their powerful visual generation capabilities. However, challenges persist in image-to-video synthesis, particularly in human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tiantian Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Tao Hu , Mallikarjun Byrasandra Ramalinga Reddy , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

Language-driven dexterous grasp generation requires the models to understand task semantics, 3D geometry, and complex hand-object interactions. While vision-language models have been applied to this problem, existing approaches directly map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Junha Lee , Eunha Park , Minsu Cho

An ideal digital telepresence experience requires accurate replication of a person's body, clothing, and movements. To capture and transfer these movements into virtual reality, the egocentric (first-person) perspective can be adopted,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 G. Kutay Türkoglu , Julian Tanke , Iheb Belgacem , Lev Markhasin

Video generation models have made significant progress in generating realistic content, enabling applications in simulation, gaming, and film making. However, current generated videos still contain visual artifacts arising from 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Duolikun Danier , Ge Gao , Steven McDonagh , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen , Oisin Mac Aodha

Crafting magic and illusions is one of the most thrilling aspects of filmmaking, with visual effects (VFX) serving as the powerhouse behind unforgettable cinematic experiences. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinyu Liu , Ailing Zeng , Wei Xue , Harry Yang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Being able to reproduce physical phenomena ranging from light interaction to contact mechanics, simulators are becoming increasingly useful in more and more application domains where real-world interaction or labeled data are difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Eric Heiden , Ziang Liu , Vibhav Vineet , Erwin Coumans , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

We introduce a novel task of reconstructing a time series of second-person 3D human body meshes from monocular egocentric videos. The unique viewpoint and rapid embodied camera motion of egocentric videos raise additional technical barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Miao Liu , Dexin Yang , Yan Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , James M. Rehg , Siyu Tang

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

Camera-controlled video generation has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, existing video-to-video re-rendering methods primarily rely on Supervised Fine-Tuning using synthetic datasets. At present, there is an extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zizun Li , Haoyu Guo , Runzhe Teng , Chunhua Shen , Tong He

When perceiving the world from multiple viewpoints, humans have the ability to reason about the complete objects in a compositional manner even when an object is completely occluded from certain viewpoints. Meanwhile, humans are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chengmin Gao , Bin Li

We address the problem of generating long-horizon videos for robotic manipulation tasks. Text-to-video diffusion models have made significant progress in photorealism, language understanding, and motion generation but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Liudi Yang , Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Soumajit Majumder , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok , Abhinav Valada

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

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

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

In this paper, we propose a novel pipeline for the 3D reconstruction of the full body from egocentric viewpoints. 3-D reconstruction of the human body from egocentric viewpoints is a challenging task as the view is skewed and the body parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Shivam Grover , Kshitij Sidana , Vanita Jain