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Recent advances in video generation models demonstrate their potential as world simulators, but they often struggle with videos deviating from physical laws, a key concern overlooked by most text-to-video benchmarks. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yongfan Chen , Xiuwen Zhu , Tianyu Li

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

Despite recent progress in video generation, producing videos that adhere to physical laws remains a significant challenge. Traditional diffusion-based methods struggle to extrapolate to unseen physical conditions (eg, velocity) due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wang Lin , Liyu Jia , Wentao Hu , Kaihang Pan , Zhongqi Yue , Wei Zhao , Jingyuan Chen , Fei Wu , Hanwang Zhang

Despite advancements in generating visually stunning content, video diffusion models (VDMs) often yield physically inconsistent results due to pixel-only reconstruction. To address this, we propose MMPhysVideo, the first framework to scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shubo Lin , Xuanyang Zhang , Wei Cheng , Weiming Hu , Gang Yu , Jin Gao

Video diffusion models have achieved impressive results in natural scene generation, yet they struggle to generalize to scientific phenomena such as fluid simulations and meteorological processes, where underlying dynamics are governed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qinglong Cao , Xirui Li , Ding Wang , Chao Ma , Yuntian Chen , Xiaokang Yang

We introduce CausalVQA, a benchmark dataset for video question answering (VQA) composed of question-answer pairs that probe models' understanding of causality in the physical world. Existing VQA benchmarks either tend to focus on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aaron Foss , Chloe Evans , Sasha Mitts , Koustuv Sinha , Ammar Rizvi , Justine T. Kao

Prediction over event sequences is critical for many real-world applications in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Future Event Generation (FEG) is a challenging task in event sequence prediction because it requires not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Li Lin , Yixin Cao , Lifu Huang , Shu'ang Li , Xuming Hu , Lijie Wen , Jianmin Wang

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

The rapid advancement of Text-to-Image(T2I) generative models has enabled the synthesis of high-quality images guided by textual descriptions. Despite this significant progress, these models are often susceptible in generating contents that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yichen Sun , Zhixuan Chu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Causality knowledge is vital to building robust AI systems. Deep learning models often perform poorly on tasks that require causal reasoning, which is often derived using some form of commonsense knowledge not immediately available in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain

State-of-the-art Video Scene Graph Generation (VSGG) systems provide structured visual understanding but operate as closed, feed-forward pipelines with no ability to incorporate human guidance. In contrast, promptable segmentation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Raphael Ruschel , Hardikkumar Prajapati , Awsafur Rahman , B. S. Manjunath

Recent advances in scene-based video generation enable coherent visual narratives from structured prompts, yet a key aspect of storytelling -- character-driven dialogue and speech -- remains underexplored. We present a modular pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Ming C. Lin

Generative AI models, particularly Text-to-Video (T2V) systems, offer a promising avenue for transforming science education by automating the creation of engaging and intuitive visual explanations. In this work, we take a first step toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Megha Mariam K. M , Aditya Arun , Zakaria Laskar , C. V. Jawahar

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

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

Instructional video generation is an emerging task that aims to synthesize coherent demonstrations of procedural activities from textual descriptions. Such capability has broad implications for content creation, education, and human-AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Cheeun Hong , German Barquero , Fadime Sener , Markos Georgopoulos , Edgar Schönfeld , Stefan Popov , Yuming Du , Oscar Mañas , Albert Pumarola

The scarcity of large-scale robotic data has motivated the repurposing of foundation models from other modalities for policy learning. In this work, we introduce PhysGen (Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Generation Models), a scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zijian Song , Qichang Li , Sihan Qin , Yuhao Chen , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Recent diffusion models achieve strong photorealism and fluency in video generation, yet remain fragile under abstract, sparse or complex conditions, leading to poor performance in professional production workflows such as storyboard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hongji Yang , Songlian Li , Yucheng Zhou , Xiaotong Zhao , Alan Zhao , Chengzhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

In recent years, deep generative models have been shown to 'imagine' convincing high-dimensional observations such as images, audio, and even video, learning directly from raw data. In this work, we ask how to imagine goal-directed visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thanard Kurutach , Aviv Tamar , Ge Yang , Stuart Russell , Pieter Abbeel

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