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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…

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Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

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

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

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and the underlying physics purely from multi-view videos. By applying various governing PDEs as PINN losses or incorporating physics simulation into neural networks, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

Given a visual scene, humans have strong intuitions about how a scene can evolve over time under given actions. The intuition, often termed visual intuitive physics, is a critical ability that allows us to make effective plans to manipulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Haotian Xue , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Daniel LK Yamins , Yunzhu Li , Hsiao-Yu Tung

Current video diffusion models generate visually compelling content but often violate basic laws of physics, producing subtle artifacts like rubber-sheet deformations and inconsistent object motion. We introduce a frequency-domain physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

Diffusion-based text-to-video generation (T2V) or image-to-video (I2V) generation have emerged as a prominent research focus. However, there exists a challenge in integrating the two generative paradigms into a unified model. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Xiao , Binbin Yang , Tingtian Li , Yipeng Yu , Sen Lei

Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) genuinely reason about physical dynamics remains challenging. Most existing benchmarks rely on recognition-style protocols such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and Violation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiarong Liang , Max Ku , Ka-Hei Hui , Ping Nie , Wenhu Chen

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

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

Text-to-video generative models have made significant strides in recent years, producing high-quality videos that excel in both aesthetic appeal and accurate instruction following, and have become central to digital art creation and user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Jiale Zhao

Recent advancements in video generation models have significantly improved their ability to follow text prompts. However, the customization of dynamic visual effects, defined as temporally evolving and appearance-driven visual phenomena…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rui Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou

We introduce a language-grounded visual prompting method to adapt the visual encoder of vision-language models for downstream tasks. By capitalizing on language integration, we devise a parameter-efficient strategy to adjust the input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nilakshan Kunananthaseelan , Jing Zhang , Mehrtash Harandi

Recent advances in generative video modeling, driven by large-scale datasets and powerful architectures, have yielded remarkable visual realism. However, emerging evidence suggests that simply scaling data and model size does not endow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ying Shen , Jerry Xiong , Tianjiao Yu , Ismini Lourentzou

Next-frame prediction is a useful and powerful method for modelling and understanding the dynamics of video data. Inspired by the empirical success of causal language modelling and next-token prediction in language modelling, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Thomas Winterbottom , G. Thomas Hudson , Daniel Kluvanec , Dean Slack , Jamie Sterling , Junjie Shentu , Chenghao Xiao , Zheming Zhou , Noura Al Moubayed

We present a novel video generation framework that integrates 3-dimensional geometry and dynamic awareness. To achieve this, we augment 2D videos with 3D point trajectories and align them in pixel space. The resulting 3D-aware video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yunuo Chen , Junli Cao , Vidit Goel , Sergei Korolev , Chenfanfu Jiang , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Anil Kag

Recent progress in video generation has led to impressive visual quality, yet current models still struggle to produce results that align with real-world physical principles. To this end, we propose an iterative self-refinement framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yang Liu , Xilin Zhao , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang

Transforming static images into interactive experiences remains a challenging task in computer vision. Tackling this challenge holds the potential to elevate mobile user experiences, notably through interactive and AR/VR applications.…

This paper reports on the LoViF 2026 PhyScore challenge, a competition on holistic quality assessment of world-model-generated videos across both 2D and 4D generation settings. The challenge is motivated by a central gap in current…