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We present PhysGen, a novel image-to-video generation method that converts a single image and an input condition (e.g., force and torque applied to an object in the image) to produce a realistic, physically plausible, and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shaowei Liu , Zhongzheng Ren , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

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

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

We introduce a novel diffusion-based video generation method, generating a video showing multiple events given multiple individual sentences from the user. Our method does not require a large-scale video dataset since our method uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gyeongrok Oh , Jaehwan Jeong , Sieun Kim , Wonmin Byeon , Jinkyu Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Sangpil Kim

Traditional fluid dynamics simulation pipelines combine numerical solvers with rendering, producing highly realistic results but at considerable computational cost. Diffusion-based generative video models offer a faster alternative, yet…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

Recent advances in 3D content generation have amplified demand for dynamic models that are both visually realistic and physically consistent. However, state-of-the-art video diffusion models frequently produce implausible results such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

We introduce PhysMotion, a novel framework that leverages principled physics-based simulations to guide intermediate 3D representations generated from a single image and input conditions (e.g., applied force and torque), producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiyang Tan , Ying Jiang , Xuan Li , Zeshun Zong , Tianyi Xie , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xindi Yang , Baolu Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Liqian Ma , Zhiyong Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

While recent video generation models have achieved significant visual fidelity, they often suffer from the lack of explicit physical controllability and plausibility. To address this, some recent studies attempted to guide the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haoze Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Zichen Wan , Xiaowei Jin , Hongzhi Zhang , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Modern text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models can synthesize visually compelling clips, yet they remain brittle at fine-scale structure: even state-of-the-art generators often produce distorted faces and hands, warped backgrounds, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tejas Panambur , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Chongjian Ge , Ersin Yumer , Xue Bai

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

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance in video generation, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally expensive due to the large number of tokens processed at each timestep. Recently, progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shikang Zheng , Jingkai Huang , Jiacheng Liu , Guantao Chen , Lixuan , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Linfeng Zhang

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising basis for such simulators because they can generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pu Zhao , Juyi Lin , Timothy Rupprecht , Arash Akbari , Chence Yang , Rahul Chowdhury , Elaheh Motamedi , Arman Akbari , Yumei He , Chen Wang , Geng Yuan , Weiwei Chen , Yanzhi Wang

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation have achieved good visual quality, yet synthesizing videos that faithfully follow physical laws remains an open challenge. Existing methods mainly based on graphics or prompt extension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yuanhao Cai , Kunpeng Li , Menglin Jia , Jialiang Wang , Junzhe Sun , Feng Liang , Weifeng Chen , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chu Wang , Ali Thabet , Xiaoliang Dai , Xuan Ju , Alan Yuille , Ji Hou

Modeling dynamic, large-scale urban scenes is challenging due to their highly intricate geometric structures and unconstrained dynamics in both space and time. Prior methods often employ high-level architectural priors, separating static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yurui Chen , Chun Gu , Junzhe Jiang , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Physically Plausible Video Generation (PPVG) has emerged as a promising avenue for modeling real-world physical phenomena. PPVG requires an understanding of commonsense knowledge, which remains a challenge for video diffusion models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zixuan Wang , Yixin Hu , Haolan Wang , Feng Chen , Yan Liu , Wen Li , Yinjie Lei

Leveraging text, images, structure maps, or motion trajectories as conditional guidance, diffusion models have achieved great success in automated and high-quality video generation. However, generating smooth and rational transition videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Jiahui Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Shijian Lu , Song Bai
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