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The recent wave of AI-generated content (AIGC) has witnessed substantial success in computer vision, with the diffusion model playing a crucial role in this achievement. Due to their impressive generative capabilities, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhen Xing , Qijun Feng , Haoran Chen , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance in video generation, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally expensive due to the large number of tokens processed at each timestep. Recently, progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shikang Zheng , Jingkai Huang , Jiacheng Liu , Guantao Chen , Lixuan , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Linfeng Zhang

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

Video generation models have rapidly progressed, positioning themselves as video world models capable of supporting decision-making applications like robotics and autonomous driving. However, current benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dacheng Li , Yunhao Fang , Yukang Chen , Shuo Yang , Shiyi Cao , Justin Wong , Michael Luo , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Song Han , Yao Lu

Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

AI-generated content has attracted lots of attention recently, but photo-realistic video synthesis is still challenging. Although many attempts using GANs and autoregressive models have been made in this area, the visual quality and length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yingqing He , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

To generate accurate videos, algorithms have to understand the spatial and temporal dependencies in the world. Current algorithms enable accurate predictions over short horizons but tend to suffer from temporal inconsistencies. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Wilson Yan , Danijar Hafner , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

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

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

Video generation aims to produce temporally coherent sequences of visual frames, representing a pivotal advancement in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). Compared to static image generation, video generation poses unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhiyu Yin , Kehai Chen , Xuefeng Bai , Ruili Jiang , Juntao Li , Hongdong Li , Jin Liu , Yang Xiang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Autonomous driving systems struggle with complex scenarios due to limited access to diverse, extensive, and out-of-distribution driving data which are critical for safe navigation. World models offer a promising solution to this challenge;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Haoxuan Dou , Xin Zhang , Weixuan Tang , Wei Wu

Recent advances in generative models have sparked exciting new possibilities in the field of autonomous vehicles. Specifically, video generation models are now being explored as controllable virtual testing environments. Simultaneously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jiahao Wang , Zhenpei Yang , Yijing Bai , Yingwei Li , Yuliang Zou , Bo Sun , Abhijit Kundu , Jose Lezama , Luna Yue Huang , Zehao Zhu , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Dragomir Anguelov , Mingxing Tan , Chiyu Max Jiang

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Motion generation, the task of synthesizing realistic motion sequences from various conditioning inputs, has become a central problem in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics, with applications ranging from animation and virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Bruno Roy , Larasika Nadela , Noa Kaplan , Evan Atherton , Derek Cheung , Jacky Bibliowicz

Diffusion models have made significant strides in image generation, mastering tasks such as unconditional image synthesis, text-image translation, and image-to-image conversions. However, their capability falls short in the realm of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

Visual generation has witnessed remarkable progress in single-image tasks, yet extending these capabilities to temporal sequences remains challenging. Current approaches either build specialized video models from scratch with enormous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Cong Wan , Xiangyang Luo , Hao Luo , Zijian Cai , Yiren Song , Yunlong Zhao , Yifan Bai , Fan Wang , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sherry Yang , Yilun Du , Kamyar Ghasemipour , Jonathan Tompson , Leslie Kaelbling , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

We present LidarDM, a novel LiDAR generative model capable of producing realistic, layout-aware, physically plausible, and temporally coherent LiDAR videos. LidarDM stands out with two unprecedented capabilities in LiDAR generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vlas Zyrianov , Henry Che , Zhijian Liu , Shenlong Wang