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While proprietary systems such as Seedance-2.0 have achieved remarkable success in omni-capable video generation, open-source alternatives significantly lag behind. Most academic models remain heavily fragmented, and the few existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Kaihang Pan , Qi Tian , Jianwei Zhang , Weijie Kong , Jiangfeng Xiong , Yanxin Long , Shixue Zhang , Haiyi Qiu , Tan Wang , Zheqi Lv , Yue Wu , Liefeng Bo , Siliang Tang , Zhao Zhong

We propose a new task, called Story Visualization. Given a multi-sentence paragraph, the story is visualized by generating a sequence of images, one for each sentence. In contrast to video generation, story visualization focuses less on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yitong Li , Zhe Gan , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu , Yu Cheng , Yuexin Wu , Lawrence Carin , David Carlson , Jianfeng Gao

Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiaming Li , Yukun Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Minghuan Tan , Lei Zhang , Yunshui Li , Run Luo , Longze Chen , Jing Luo , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Wei Zhou , Min Yang

Scaling inference-time computation has enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to achieve strong reasoning performance, but inherently sequential decoding leads to substantial latency, especially on complex tasks. Recent work on adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Long Lian , Sida Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Xiuyu Li , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Alane Suhr , Yuandong Tian , Xi Victoria Lin

The core challenge for streaming video generation is maintaining the content consistency in long context, which poses high requirement for the memory design. Most existing solutions maintain the memory by compressing historical frames with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Shuai Yang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

Generative AI has enabled novice designers to quickly create professional-looking visual representations for product concepts. However, novices have limited domain knowledge that could constrain their ability to write prompts that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Sirui Tao , Ivan Liang , Cindy Peng , Zhiqing Wang , Srishti Palani , Steven P. Dow

Prevalent retrieval-based tool-use pipelines struggle with a dual semantic challenge: their retrievers often employ encoders that fail to capture complex semantics, while the Large Language Model (LLM) itself lacks intrinsic tool knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Bowen Fang , Wen Ye , Yunyue Su , Jinghao Zhang , Qiang Liu , Yesheng Liu , Xin Sun , Shu Wu , Jiabing Yang , Baole Wei , Liang Wang

Storyboarding is a core skill in visual storytelling for film, animation, and games. However, automating this process requires a system to achieve two properties that current approaches rarely satisfy simultaneously: inter-shot consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bingliang Li , Zhenhong Sun , Jiaming Bian , Yuehao Wu , Yifu Wang , Hongdong Li , Yatao Bian , Huadong Mo , Daoyi Dong

This study addresses the challenge that generative models struggle to balance flexibility, stability, and controllability in complex interactive scenarios. It proposes a controllable generation framework for dynamic interactive content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rui Liu

Storytelling in real-world videos often unfolds through multiple shots -- discontinuous yet semantically connected clips that together convey a coherent narrative. However, existing multi-shot video generation (MSV) methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhaochong An , Menglin Jia , Haonan Qiu , Zijian Zhou , Xiaoke Huang , Zhiheng Liu , Weiming Ren , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Ding Liu , Sen He , Chenyang Zhang , Tao Xiang , Fanny Yang , Serge Belongie , Tian Xie

Visual storytelling aims to generate a narrative paragraph from a sequence of images automatically. Existing approaches construct text description independently for each image and roughly concatenate them as a story, which leads to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Ruize Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Ying Cheng , Piji Li , Haijun Shan , Ji Zhang , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Video storytelling is engaging multimedia content that utilizes video and its accompanying narration to attract the audience, where a key challenge is creating narrations for recorded visual scenes. Previous studies on dense video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dingyi Yang , Chunru Zhan , Ziheng Wang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Qin Jin

Storytelling aims to generate reasonable and vivid narratives based on an ordered image stream. The fidelity to the image story theme and the divergence of story plots attract readers to keep reading. Previous works iteratively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chuanqi Zang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Zeng Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Mingtao Pei , Wei Liang

Synthesizing coherent soundtracks for long-form videos remains a formidable challenge, currently stalled by three critical impediments: computational scalability, temporal coherence, and, most critically, a pervasive semantic blindness to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yufan Wen , Zhaocheng Liu , YeGuo Hua , Ziyi Guo , Lihua Zhang , Chun Yuan , Jian Wu

Recent video generation models have shown promising results in producing high-quality video clips lasting several seconds. However, these models face challenges in generating long sequences that convey clear and informative events, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junfei Xiao , Feng Cheng , Lu Qi , Liangke Gui , Jiepeng Cen , Zhibei Ma , Alan Yuille , Lu Jiang

Clinical text improvement is vital for healthcare efficiency but remains difficult due to limited high-quality data and the complex constraints of medical documentation. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise, current approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ziyan Xiao , Yinghao Zhu , Liang Peng , Lequan Yu

Data-driven storytelling is a powerful method for conveying insights by combining narrative techniques with visualizations and text. These stories integrate visual aids, such as highlighted bars and lines in charts, along with textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md Rizwan Parvez , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Despite recent advances, long-sequence video generation frameworks still suffer from significant limitations: poor assistive capability, suboptimal visual quality, and limited expressiveness. To mitigate these limitations, we propose MAViS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qian Wang , Ziqi Huang , Ruoxi Jia , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

Maintaining spatial world consistency over long horizons remains a central challenge for camera-controllable video generation. Existing memory-based approaches often condition generation on globally reconstructed 3D scenes by rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zun Wang , Han Lin , Jaehong Yoon , Jaemin Cho , Yue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

Models based on deep convolutional networks have dominated recent image interpretation tasks; we investigate whether models which are also recurrent, or "temporally deep", are effective for tasks involving sequences, visual and otherwise.…

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