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Generative models have emerged as an essential building block for many image synthesis and editing tasks. Recent advances in this field have also enabled high-quality 3D or video content to be generated that exhibits either multi-view or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Sherwin Bahmani , Jeong Joon Park , Despoina Paschalidou , Hao Tang , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Text-to-video (T2V) generation technology holds potential to transform multiple domains such as education, marketing, entertainment, and assistive technologies for individuals with visual or reading comprehension challenges, by creating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nilay Kumar , Priyansh Bhandari , G. Maragatham

Advancements in language foundation models have primarily fueled the recent surge in artificial intelligence. In contrast, generative learning of non-textual modalities, especially videos, significantly trails behind language modeling. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lijun Yu

4D driving simulation is essential for developing realistic autonomous driving simulators. Despite advancements in existing methods for generating driving scenes, significant challenges remain in view transformation and spatial-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Lening Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Dalong Du , Yunpeng Zhang , Yilong Ren , Han Jiang , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu , Shanghang Zhang

Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynamics and interactive behaviors. However, existing interactive world models depend on…

In this paper, we aim to improve the state-of-the-art video generative adversarial networks (GANs) with a view towards multi-functional applications. Our improved video GAN model does not separate foreground from background nor dynamic from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Bernhard Kratzwald , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Acharya Dinesh , Luc Van Gool

Generative Adversarial Networks have recently shown promise for video generation, building off of the success of image generation while also addressing a new challenge: time. Although time was analyzed in some early work, the literature has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Cade Gordon , Natalie Parde

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Future Frame Synthesis (FFS), the task of generating subsequent video frames from context, represents a core challenge in machine intelligence and a cornerstone for developing predictive world models. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ruibo Ming , Zhewei Huang , Jingwei Wu , Zhuoxuan Ju , Daxin Jiang , Jianming Hu , Lihui Peng , Shuchang Zhou

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

In the era of deep learning, data is the critical determining factor in the performance of neural network models. Generating large datasets suffers from various difficulties such as scalability, cost efficiency and photorealism. To avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chahat Deep Singh , Riya Kumari , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Yiannis Aloimonos

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

Stochastic video prediction models take in a sequence of image frames, and generate a sequence of consecutive future image frames. These models typically generate future frames in an autoregressive fashion, which is slow and requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ananya Kumar , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo J. Rezende , Marta Garnelo , Fabio Viola , Edward Lockhart , Murray Shanahan

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Generative models hold promise for revolutionizing medical education, robot-assisted surgery, and data augmentation for machine learning. Despite progress in generating 2D medical images, the complex domain of clinical video generation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chenxin Li , Hengyu Liu , Yifan Liu , Brandon Y. Feng , Wuyang Li , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Chen , Jing Shao , Yixuan Yuan

The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly in the last few years. With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable unsupervised learning paradigms, recent large-scale generative models…

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

Generating long and consistent videos has emerged as a significant yet challenging problem. While most existing diffusion-based video generation models, derived from image generation models, demonstrate promising performance in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yichen Ouyang , jianhao Yuan , Hao Zhao , Gaoang Wang , Bo zhao

Models that can simulate how environments change in response to actions can be used by agents to plan and act efficiently. We improve on previous environment simulators from high-dimensional pixel observations by introducing recurrent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Silvia Chiappa , Sébastien Racaniere , Daan Wierstra , Shakir Mohamed