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Motion estimation is one of the core challenges in computer vision. With traditional dual-frame approaches, occlusions and out-of-view motions are a limiting factor, especially in the context of environmental perception for vehicles due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 René Schuster , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

Representing diverse and plausible future trajectories is critical for motion forecasting in autonomous driving. However, efficiently capturing these trajectories in a compact set remains challenging. This study introduces a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Abhishek Vivekanandan , J. Marius Zöllner

Predictive manipulation has recently gained considerable attention in the Embodied AI community due to its potential to improve robot policy performance by leveraging predicted states. However, generating accurate future visual states of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yuhang Huang , Jiazhao Zhang , Shilong Zou , Xinwang Liu , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

We introduce OneDiffusion, a versatile, large-scale diffusion model that seamlessly supports bidirectional image synthesis and understanding across diverse tasks. It enables conditional generation from inputs such as text, depth, pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Duong H. Le , Tuan Pham , Sangho Lee , Christopher Clark , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Stephan Mandt , Ranjay Krishna , Jiasen Lu

In autonomous driving, predicting future events in advance and evaluating the foreseeable risks empowers autonomous vehicles to better plan their actions, enhancing safety and efficiency on the road. To this end, we propose Drive-WM, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuqi Wang , Jiawei He , Lue Fan , Hongxin Li , Yuntao Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Conditional diffusion models provide a natural framework for probabilistic prediction of dynamical systems and have been successfully applied to fluid dynamics and weather prediction. However, in many settings, the available information at…

Realistic driving simulation requires that NPCs not only mimic natural driving behaviors but also react to the behavior of other simulated agents. Recent developments in diffusion-based scenario generation focus on creating diverse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yunpeng Liu , Matthew Niedoba , William Harvey , Adam Scibior , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

This paper studies the problem of predicting the distribution over multiple possible future paths of people as they move through various visual scenes. We make two main contributions. The first contribution is a new dataset, created in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Junwei Liang , Lu Jiang , Kevin Murphy , Ting Yu , Alexander Hauptmann

In a given scene, humans can often easily predict a set of immediate future events that might happen. However, generalized pixel-level anticipation in computer vision systems is difficult because machine learning struggles with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jacob Walker , Carl Doersch , Abhinav Gupta , Martial Hebert

There is an inherent need for autonomous cars, drones, and other robots to have a notion of how their environment behaves and to anticipate changes in the near future. In this work, we focus on anticipating future appearance given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Vedran Vukotić , Silvia-Laura Pintea , Christian Raymond , Guillaume Gravier , Jan Van Gemert

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

In dynamic traffic environments, motion forecasting models must be able to accurately estimate future trajectories continuously. Streaming-based methods are a promising solution, but despite recent advances, their performance often degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alexander Prutsch , Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , David Schinagl , Horst Possegger

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are a promising new class of generative models that mark a milestone in high-quality image generation. This paper showcases their ability to sequentially generate video, surpassing prior methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ruihan Yang , Prakhar Srivastava , Stephan Mandt

Recent advances in motion diffusion models have led to remarkable progress in diverse motion generation tasks, including text-to-motion synthesis. However, existing approaches represent motions as dense frame sequences, requiring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jinseok Bae , Inwoo Hwang , Young Yoon Lee , Ziyu Guo , Joseph Liu , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Young Min Kim , Mubbasir Kapadia

In order to plan a safe maneuver an autonomous vehicle must accurately perceive its environment, and understand the interactions among traffic participants. In this paper, we aim to learn scene-consistent motion forecasts of complex urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Sergio Casas , Cole Gulino , Simon Suo , Katie Luo , Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun

Repurposing pre-trained diffusion models has been proven to be effective for NVS. However, these methods are mostly limited to a single object; directly applying such methods to compositional multi-object scenarios yields inferior results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruijie Lu , Yixin Chen , Junfeng Ni , Baoxiong Jia , Yu Liu , Diwen Wan , Gang Zeng , Siyuan Huang

Learning to predict the long-term future of video frames is notoriously challenging due to inherent ambiguities in the distant future and dramatic amplifications of prediction error through time. Despite the recent advances in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Wonkwang Lee , Whie Jung , Han Zhang , Ting Chen , Jing Yu Koh , Thomas Huang , Hyungsuk Yoon , Honglak Lee , Seunghoon Hong

This paper introduces a Multi-modal Diffusion model for Motion Prediction (MDMP) that integrates and synchronizes skeletal data and textual descriptions of actions to generate refined long-term motion predictions with quantifiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Leo Bringer , Joey Wilson , Kira Barton , Maani Ghaffari

Tremendous efforts have been put forth on predicting pedestrian trajectory with generative models to accommodate uncertainty and multi-modality in human behaviors. An individual's inherent uncertainty, e.g., change of destination, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yao Liu , Zesheng Ye , Rui Wang , Binghao Li , Quan Z. Sheng , Lina Yao

Anticipating future actions is inherently uncertain. Given an observed video segment containing ongoing actions, multiple subsequent actions can plausibly follow. This uncertainty becomes even larger when predicting far into the future.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zeyun Zhong , Chengzhi Wu , Manuel Martin , Michael Voit , Juergen Gall , Jürgen Beyerer