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Video generation requires modeling a vast spatiotemporal space, which demands significant computational resources and data usage. To reduce the complexity, the prevailing approaches employ a cascaded architecture to avoid direct training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yang Jin , Zhicheng Sun , Ningyuan Li , Kun Xu , Kun Xu , Hao Jiang , Nan Zhuang , Quzhe Huang , Yang Song , Yadong Mu , Zhouchen Lin

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

We tackle the long video generation problem, i.e.~generating videos beyond the output length of video generation models. Due to the computation resource constraints, video generation models can only generate video clips that are relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Recent advances in the diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-image generation. However, generating videos from text is a more challenging task than generating images from text, due to the much larger dataset and higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Taegyeong Lee , Soyeong Kwon , Taehwan Kim

Video generation models have become increasingly popular in the last few years, however the standard 2D architectures used today lack natural spatio-temporal modelling capabilities. In this paper, we present a network architecture for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Andres Munoz , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nick Stracke , Kolja Bauer , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Björn Ommer

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

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

Video generation is a critical pathway toward world models, with efficient long video inference as a key capability. Toward this end, we introduce LongCat-Video, a foundational video generation model with 13.6B parameters, delivering strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Meituan LongCat Team , Xunliang Cai , Qilong Huang , Zhuoliang Kang , Hongyu Li , Shijun Liang , Liya Ma , Siyu Ren , Xiaoming Wei , Rixu Xie , Tong Zhang

Recent advancements in video generation have substantially improved visual quality and temporal coherence, making these models increasingly appealing for applications such as autonomous driving, particularly in the context of driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Julian Schmidt , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

Generating videos predicting the future of a given sequence has been an area of active research in recent years. However, an essential problem remains unsolved: most of the methods require large computational cost and memory usage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages, the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant, we argue that naively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Ivan Skorokhodov , Ekaterina Deyneka , Tsai-Shien Chen , Anil Kag , Yuwei Fang , Aleksei Stoliar , Elisa Ricci , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov

Automatic 3D generation has recently attracted widespread attention. Recent methods have greatly accelerated the generation speed, but usually produce less-detailed objects due to limited model capacity or 3D data. Motivated by recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zilong Chen , Yikai Wang , Feng Wang , Zhengyi Wang , Huaping Liu