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Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Sen He , Maciej Zięba , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chunming He , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Fengyang Xiao , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, offering superior temporal consistency and visual quality compared to traditional generative adversarial networks-based approaches. While this emerging field shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yimu Wang , Xuye Liu , Wei Pang , Li Ma , Shuai Yuan , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

While recent years have witnessed great progress on using diffusion models for video generation, most of them are simple extensions of image generation frameworks, which fail to explicitly consider one of the key differences between videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jingyun Liang , Yuchen Fan , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Rakesh Ranjan

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

Video saliency prediction aims to identify the regions in a video that attract human attention and gaze, driven by bottom-up features from the video and top-down processes like memory and cognition. Among these top-down influences, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yolo Yunlong Tang , Gen Zhan , Li Yang , Yiting Liao , Chenliang Xu

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Unlike autoregressive models, which generate tokens sequentially and benefit from reasoning-before-answering strategies such as Chain-of-Thought, Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) refine all sequence positions simultaneously, raising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jacob Devasier

Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inference costs. Compared with image generation, video synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Pengfei Wan , James Kwok , Zeke Xie

Discrete diffusion models have recently become competitive with autoregressive models for language modeling, even outperforming them on reasoning tasks requiring planning and global coherence, but they require more computation at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andre He , Sean Welleck , Daniel Fried

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

High-quality chain-of-thought has demonstrated strong potential for unlocking the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, current paradigms typically treat the reasoning process as an indivisible sequence, lacking an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yan Liu , Feng Zhang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Xu , Jiuchong Gao , Jinghua Hao , Renqing He , Han Liu , Yangdong Deng

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Thanks to the powerful generative capacity of diffusion models, recent years have witnessed rapid progress in human motion generation. Existing diffusion-based methods employ disparate network architectures and training strategies. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yiheng Huang , Hui Yang , Chuanchen Luo , Yuxi Wang , Shibiao Xu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Man Zhang , Junran Peng

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in the field of video generation. However, their iterative denoising nature requires a large number of inference steps to generate a video, which is slow and computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haiyu Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Xihui Liu , Yunhong Wang , Yu Qiao

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images from text prompts, they struggle with visual consistency when generating image sequences. Existing methods generate each image independently, leading to disjointed narratives -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Guilherme Fernandes , Vasco Ramos , Regev Cohen , Idan Szpektor , João Magalhães

Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility? We probe intermediate denoising representations of a pretrained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and find that physically plausible and implausible videos are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chujun Tang , Lei Zhong , Fangqiang Ding

Video generative models show emerging reasoning behaviors. It is essential to ensure that generated events remain causally consistent across frames for reliable deployment, a property we define as reasoning coherence. To bridge the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yu Qi , Xinyi Xu , Ziyu Guo , Siyuan Ma , Renrui Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Ruichuan An , Ruofan Xing , Jiayi Zhang , Haojie Huang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jonathan Tremblay , Lawson L. S. Wong

Current Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods typically follow a two-stage pipeline, combining learned or geometric pairwise reasoning with a subsequent global optimization step. In contrast, we propose a data-driven multi-view reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qitao Zhao , Amy Lin , Jeff Tan , Jason Y. Zhang , Deva Ramanan , Shubham Tulsiani

Recently, diffusion models have garnered significant interest in the field of text processing due to their many potential advantages compared to conventional autoregressive models. In this work, we propose Diffusion-of-Thought (DoT), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiacheng Ye , Shansan Gong , Liheng Chen , Lin Zheng , Jiahui Gao , Han Shi , Chuan Wu , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Wei Bi , Lingpeng Kong