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Causality -- referring to temporal, uni-directional cause-effect relationships between components -- underlies many complex generative processes, including videos, language, and robot trajectories. Current causal diffusion models entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xingjian Bai , Guande He , Zhengqi Li , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang , Zongze Wu

Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, yet often fail to generate temporally coherent and physically plausible motion. A key reason is the models' insufficient understanding of complex motions that natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Denis Korzhenkov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Amirhossein Habibian , Mohsen Ghafoorian

Diffusion models can generate realistic videos, but existing methods rely on implicitly learning physical reasoning from large-scale text-video datasets, which is costly, difficult to scale, and still prone to producing implausible motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yutong Hao , Chen Chen , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Chang Xu , Daochang Liu

There are many forms of feature information present in video data. Principle among them are object identity information which is largely static across multiple video frames, and object pose and style information which continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Will Grathwohl , Aaron Wilson

We present a framework for video modeling based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models that produces long-duration video completions in a variety of realistic environments. We introduce a generative model that can at test-time sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 William Harvey , Saeid Naderiparizi , Vaden Masrani , Christian Weilbach , Frank Wood

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

The motion transfer task aims to transfer motion from a source video to newly generated videos, requiring the model to decouple motion from appearance. Previous diffusion-based methods primarily rely on separate spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Qingyu Shi , Jianzong Wu , Jinbin Bai , Jiangning Zhang , Lu Qi , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li

Text-driven video generation has advanced significantly due to developments in diffusion models. Beyond the training and sampling phases, recent studies have investigated noise priors of diffusion models, as improved noise priors yield…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Yunlong Yuan , Yuanfan Guo , Chunwei Wang , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Video try-on stands as a promising area for its tremendous real-world potential. Previous research on video try-on has primarily focused on transferring product clothing images to videos with simple human poses, while performing poorly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jun Zheng , Jing Wang , Fuwei Zhao , Xujie Zhang , Xiaodan Liang

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling unprecedented realism in image and video synthesis. This success has sparked interest in leveraging their representations for visual understanding tasks. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pedro Vélez , Luisa F. Polanía , Yi Yang , Chuhan Zhang , Rishabh Kabra , Anurag Arnab , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

Perceiving the shape and material of an object from a single image is inherently ambiguous, especially when lighting is unknown and unconstrained. Despite this, humans can often disentangle shape and material, and when they are uncertain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinran Nicole Han , Ko Nishino , Todd Zickler

Dynamic novel view synthesis aims to capture the temporal evolution of visual content within videos. Existing methods struggle to distinguishing between motion and structure, particularly in scenarios where camera poses are either unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Chaoyang Wang , Peiye Zhuang , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Guocheng Qian , Hsin-Ying Lee , Sergey Tulyakov

Self-supervised image encoders such as DINO have recently gained significant interest for learning robust visual features without labels. However, most SSL methods train on static images and miss the temporal cues inherent in videos. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Marcel Simon , Tae-Ho Kim , Seul-Ki Yeom

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect individual objects within a single frame and associate them across multiple frames. Recent MOT approaches can be categorized into two-stage tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Luo , Zikai Song , Lintao Ma , Jinlin Wei , Wei Yang , Min Yang

Video deblurring presents a considerable challenge owing to the complexity of blur, which frequently results from a combination of camera shakes, and object motions. In the field of video deblurring, many previous works have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Haoyang Long , Yan Wang , Wendong Wang

Infrared imaging offers resilience against changing lighting conditions by capturing object temperatures. Yet, in few scenarios, its lack of visual details compared to daytime visible images, poses a significant challenge for human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anh-Dzung Doan , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Surabhi Gupta , Markus Wagner , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang