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Predicting high dimensional video sequences is a curiously difficult problem. The number of possible futures for a given video sequence grows exponentially over time due to uncertainty. This is especially evident when trying to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Luke Ditria , Tom Drummond

Diffusion policies have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for visuomotor control in robotic manipulation due to their ability to model the distribution of action sequences and capture multimodality. However, iterative denoising leads…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jinhao Li , Yuxuan Cong , Yingqiao Wang , Hao Xia , Shan Huang , Yijia Zhang , Ningyi Xu , Guohao Dai

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Jund , Chris Sweeney , Nichola Abdo , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens

Recent advances in diffusion models have improved controllable streetscape generation and supported downstream perception and planning tasks. However, challenges remain in accurately modeling driving scenes and generating long videos. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jianbiao Mei , Tao Hu , Xuemeng Yang , Licheng Wen , Yu Yang , Tiantian Wei , Yukai Ma , Min Dou , Botian Shi , Yong Liu

Predicting how a dynamical unit evolves over time - how an individual ages, an epidemic spreads, or a physical system degrades - typically requires dense longitudinal tracking. When only extremely sparse or entirely cross-sectional data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Christian Lagemann , Kai Lagemann , Steven L. Brunton , Sach Mukherjee

Humans and animals have a rich and flexible understanding of the physical world, which enables them to infer the underlying dynamical trajectories of objects and events, plausible future states, and use that to plan and anticipate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aran Nayebi , Rishi Rajalingham , Mehrdad Jazayeri , Guangyu Robert Yang

Estimating motion in videos is an essential computer vision problem with many downstream applications, including controllable video generation and robotics. Current solutions are primarily trained using synthetic data or require tuning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Stefan Stojanov , David Wendt , Seungwoo Kim , Rahul Venkatesh , Kevin Feigelis , Jiajun Wu , Daniel LK Yamins

Future trajectories of neighboring traffic agents have a significant influence on the path planning and decision-making of autonomous vehicles. While trajectory forecasting is a well-studied field, research mainly focuses on snapshot-based…

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

Visual intelligence requires anticipating the future behavior of agents, yet vision systems lack a general representation for motion and behavior. We propose dense point trajectories as visual tokens for behavior, a structured mid-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Neerja Thakkar , Shiry Ginosar , Jacob Walker , Jitendra Malik , Joao Carreira , Carl Doersch

Human behavior has the nature of indeterminacy, which requires the pedestrian trajectory prediction system to model the multi-modality of future motion states. Unlike existing stochastic trajectory prediction methods which usually use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Tianpei Gu , Guangyi Chen , Junlong Li , Chunze Lin , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We address the challenging problem of dense dynamic scene reconstruction and camera pose estimation from multiple freely moving cameras -- a setting that arises naturally when multiple observers capture a shared event. Prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Sun , Unal Artan , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthaland , Martin Magnusson

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Motion prediction, recently popularized as world models, refers to the anticipation of future agent states or scene evolution, which is rooted in human cognition, bridging perception and decision-making. It enables intelligent systems, such…

Widely adopted motion forecasting datasets substitute the observed sensory inputs with higher-level abstractions such as 3D boxes and polylines. These sparse shapes are inferred through annotating the original scenes with perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kan Chen , Runzhou Ge , Hang Qiu , Rami AI-Rfou , Charles R. Qi , Xuanyu Zhou , Zoey Yang , Scott Ettinger , Pei Sun , Zhaoqi Leng , Mustafa Baniodeh , Ivan Bogun , Weiyue Wang , Mingxing Tan , Dragomir Anguelov

Video prediction, forecasting the future frames from a sequence of input frames, is a challenging task since the view changes are influenced by various factors, such as the global context surrounding the scene and local motion dynamics. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jaehoon Cho , Jiyoung Lee , Changjae Oh , Wonil Song , Kwanghoon Sohn

Denoising diffusion models hold great promise for generating diverse and realistic human motions. However, existing motion diffusion models largely disregard the laws of physics in the diffusion process and often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ye Yuan , Jiaming Song , Umar Iqbal , Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Existing video prediction methods mainly rely on observing multiple historical frames or focus on predicting the next one-frame. In this work, we study the problem of generating consecutive multiple future frames by observing one single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yijun Li , Chen Fang , Jimei Yang , Zhaowen Wang , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Currently, methods for single-image deblurring based on CNNs and transformers have demonstrated promising performance. However, these methods often suffer from perceptual limitations, poor generalization ability, and struggle with heavy or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaoyang Liu , Yuquan Wang , Zheng Chen , Jiezhang Cao , He Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Subhabrata Choudhury , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

We present a unified network for simultaneously generating videos and their corresponding entity segmentation and depth maps from text prompts. We utilize colormap to represent entity masks and depth maps, tightly integrating dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lehan Yang , Lu Qi , Xiangtai Li , Sheng Li , Varun Jampani , Ming-Hsuan Yang