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Recent advances in generative modeling can create remarkably realistic synthetic videos, making it increasingly difficult for humans to distinguish them from real ones and necessitating reliable detection methods. However, two key…

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Video generation has advanced significantly, evolving from producing unrealistic outputs to generating videos that appear visually convincing and temporally coherent. To evaluate these video generative models, benchmarks such as VBench have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dian Zheng , Ziqi Huang , Hongbo Liu , Kai Zou , Yinan He , Fan Zhang , Lulu Gu , Yuanhan Zhang , Jingwen He , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

The evolution of video generation toward complex, multi-shot narratives has exposed a critical deficit in current evaluation methods. Existing benchmarks remain anchored to single-shot paradigms, lacking the comprehensive story assets and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoyuan Shi , Yunxin Li , Nanhao Deng , Zhenran Xu , Xinyu Chen , Longyue Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

With the rapid advancement of image-to-video (I2V) generation models, their potential for misuse in creating malicious content has become a significant concern. For instance, a single image can be exploited to generate a fake video, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xiaofeng Li , Leyi Sheng , Zhen Sun , Zongmin Zhang , Jiaheng Wei , Xinlei He

Video foundation models aim to integrate video understanding, generation, editing, and instruction following within a single framework, making them a central direction for next-generation multimodal systems. However, existing evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jianhui Wei , Xiaotian Zhang , Yichen Li , Yuan Wang , Yan Zhang , Ziyi Chen , Zhihang Tang , Wei Xu , Zuozhu Liu

The next frontier for video generation lies in developing models capable of zero-shot reasoning, where understanding real-world scientific laws is crucial for accurate physical outcome modeling under diverse conditions. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lanxiang Hu , Abhilash Shankarampeta , Yixin Huang , Zilin Dai , Haoyang Yu , Yujie Zhao , Haoqiang Kang , Daniel Zhao , Tajana Rosing , Hao Zhang

Story visualization aims to generate coherent image sequences that faithfully represent a narrative and match given character references. Despite progress in generative models, existing benchmarks remain narrow in scope, often limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Cailin Zhuang , Ailin Huang , Yaoqi Hu , Jingwei Wu , Wei Cheng , Jiaqi Liao , Hongyuan Wang , Xinyao Liao , Weiwei Cai , Hengyuan Xu , Xuanyang Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Zhewei Huang , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

Recent advances in video generation models demonstrate their potential as world simulators, but they often struggle with videos deviating from physical laws, a key concern overlooked by most text-to-video benchmarks. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yongfan Chen , Xiuwen Zhu , Tianyu Li

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Recent years have seen impressive advances in text-to-image generation, with image generative or unified models producing high-quality images from text. Yet these models still struggle with fine-grained color controllability, often failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Muhammad Atif Butt , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Tao Wu , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Joost Van De Weijer , Kai Wang

Text-to-video (T2V) generation models have made significant progress in creating visually appealing videos. However, they struggle with generating coherent sequential narratives that require logical progression through multiple events.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhengxu Tang , Zizheng Wang , Luning Wang , Zitao Shuai , Chenhao Zhang , Siyu Qian , Yirui Wu , Bohao Wang , Haosong Rao , Zhenyu Yang , Chenwei Wu

Existing text-to-video (T2V) evaluation benchmarks, such as VBench and EvalCrafter, suffer from two limitations. (i) While the emphasis is on subject-centric prompts or static camera scenes, camera motion essential for producing cinematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Nithin C. Babu , Aniruddha Mahapatra , Harsh Rangwani , Rajiv Soundararajan , Kuldeep Kulkarni

Cinematography is a cornerstone of film production and appreciation, shaping mood, emotion, and narrative through visual elements such as camera movement, shot composition, and lighting. Despite recent progress in multimodal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xinran Wang , Songyu Xu , Xiangxuan Shan , Yuxuan Zhang , Muxi Diao , Xueyan Duan , Yanhua Huang , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Interleaved text-and-image generation has been an intriguing research direction, where the models are required to generate both images and text pieces in an arbitrary order. Despite the emerging advancements in interleaved generation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Minqian Liu , Zhiyang Xu , Zihao Lin , Trevor Ashby , Joy Rimchala , Jiaxin Zhang , Lifu Huang

Text-to-Audio-Video (T2AV) generation is rapidly becoming a core interface for media creation, yet its evaluation remains fragmented. Existing benchmarks largely assess audio and video in isolation or rely on coarse embedding similarity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ziwei Zhou , Zeyuan Lai , Rui Wang , Yifan Yang , Zhen Xing , Yuqing Yang , Qi Dai , Lili Qiu , Chong Luo

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

The vision and language generative models have been overgrown in recent years. For video generation, various open-sourced models and public-available services have been developed to generate high-quality videos. However, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yaofang Liu , Xiaodong Cun , Xuebo Liu , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Yang Liu , Tieyong Zeng , Raymond Chan , Ying Shan

Image generation has witnessed significant advancements in the past few years. However, evaluating the performance of image generation models remains a formidable challenge. In this paper, we propose ICE-Bench, a unified and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yulin Pan , Xiangteng He , Chaojie Mao , Zhen Han , Zeyinzi Jiang , Jingfeng Zhang , Yu Liu

The training of controllable text-to-video (T2V) models relies heavily on the alignment between videos and captions, yet little existing research connects video caption evaluation with T2V generation assessment. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinlong Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Chongling Rao , Yushuo Guan , Jiaheng Liu , Fuzheng Zhang , Chengru Song , Qiang Liu , Di Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Long-form video generation is rapidly moving from short, single-scene synthesis toward minute-long, multi-shot creation with narrative structure, cinematic control, audio, and cross-modal synchronization. However, evaluating such videos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiamin Chen , Qianben Chen , Jiawen Zhang , Yidi Wu , Yuchen Li , Xiaokun Zhang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Chen Ma