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Existing sequence prediction methods are mostly concerned with time-independent sequences, in which the actual time span between events is irrelevant and the distance between events is simply the difference between their order positions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Yang Li , Nan Du , Samy Bengio

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Stories or narratives are comprised of a sequence of events. To compose interesting stories, professional writers often leverage a creative writing technique called flashback that inserts past events into current storylines as we commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Rujun Han , Hong Chen , Yufei Tian , Nanyun Peng

Existing models often struggle with complex temporal changes, particularly when generating videos with gradual attribute transitions. The most common prompt interpolation approach for motion transitions often fails to handle gradual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ling Lo , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Wen-Huang Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Auto-regressive video generation enables long video synthesis by iteratively conditioning each new batch of frames on previously generated content. However, recent work has shown that such pipelines suffer from severe temporal drift, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ariel Shaulov , Eitan Shaar , Amit Edenzon , Lior Wolf

Generative models (e.g., GANs, diffusion models) learn the underlying data distribution in an unsupervised manner. However, many applications of interest require sampling from a particular region of the output space or sampling evenly over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chen Henry Wu , Saman Motamed , Shaunak Srivastava , Fernando De la Torre

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Prompt engineering is a technique that involves augmenting a large pre-trained model with task-specific hints, known as prompts, to adapt the model to new tasks. Prompts can be created manually as natural language instructions or generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jindong Gu , Zhen Han , Shuo Chen , Ahmad Beirami , Bailan He , Gengyuan Zhang , Ruotong Liao , Yao Qin , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled impressive image generation capabilities guided by text prompts. However, extending these techniques to video generation remains challenging, with existing text-to-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weifeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Jie Wu , Hefeng Wu , Pan Xie , Jiashi Li , Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Liang Lin

Most existing real-time deep models trained with each frame independently may produce inconsistent results across the temporal axis when tested on a video sequence. A few methods take the correlations in the video sequence into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Changqian Yu , Jingdong Wang

Recent breakthroughs in diffusion models have exhibited exceptional image-generation capabilities. However, studies show that some outputs are merely replications of training data. Such replications present potential legal challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuxin Wen , Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu

Inference-time controllable generation is essential for real-world applications of unconditional diffusion models. However, most existing techniques focus on individual samples, struggling in applications that require the sample population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Luan , See-Kiong Ng , Chun Kai Ling

Inferring causal relations in timeseries data with delayed effects is a fundamental challenge, especially when the underlying system exhibits complex dynamics that cannot be captured by simple functional mappings. Traditional approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Preetom Biswas , Giulia Pedrielli , K. Selçuk Candan

Long-form video generation presents a dual challenge: models must capture long-range dependencies while preventing the error accumulation inherent in autoregressive decoding. To address these challenges, we make two contributions. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xiaofei Wu , Guozhen Zhang , Zhiyong Xu , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Xuming He

The development of text-to-video (T2V), i.e., generating videos with a given text prompt, has been significantly advanced in recent years. However, relying solely on text prompts often results in ambiguous frame composition due to spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuwei Guo , Ceyuan Yang , Anyi Rao , Maneesh Agrawala , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Explainability in time series models is crucial for fostering trust, facilitating debugging, and ensuring interpretability in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce Implet, a novel post-hoc explainer that generates accurate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fanyu Meng , Ziwen Kan , Shahbaz Rezaei , Zhaodan Kong , Xin Chen , Xin Liu

Existing person video generation methods either lack the flexibility in controlling both the appearance and motion, or fail to preserve detailed appearance and temporal consistency. In this paper, we tackle the problem of motion transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Kun Cheng , Hao-Zhi Huang , Chun Yuan , Lingyiqing Zhou , Wei Liu

Despite substantial progress in text-to-video generation, achieving precise and flexible control over fine-grained spatiotemporal attributes remains a significant unresolved challenge in video generation research. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xu Zhang , Hao Zhou , Haoming Qin , Xiaobin Lu , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Yi Liu

Real-time video commentary generation provides textual descriptions of ongoing events in videos. It supports accessibility and engagement in domains such as sports, esports, and livestreaming. Commentary generation involves two essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Anum Afzal , Yuki Saito , Hiroya Takamura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Graham Neubig , Florian Matthes , Tatsuya Ishigaki

Long-form video understanding presents significant challenges for interactive retrieval systems, as conventional methods struggle to process extensive video content efficiently. Existing approaches often rely on single models, inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Huu-Loc Tran , Tinh-Anh Nguyen-Nhu , Huu-Phong Phan-Nguyen , Tien-Huy Nguyen , Nhat-Minh Nguyen-Dich , Anh Dao , Huy-Duc Do , Quan Nguyen , Hoang M. Le , Quang-Vinh Dinh