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Recent advances in generative foundational models, often termed "world models," have propelled interest in applying them to critical tasks like robotic planning and autonomous system training. For reliable deployment, these models must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Jim Solomon , Ayush Agrawal , Pranay Boreddy , Shruti Satya Narayana , Yunhao Ba , Alex Wong , Celso M de Melo , Achuta Kadambi

The saturation of high-quality pre-training data has shifted research focus toward evolutionary systems capable of continuously generating novel artifacts, leading to the success of AlphaEvolve. However, the progress of such systems is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zi-Han Wang , Lam Nguyen , Zhengyang Zhao , Mengyue Yang , Chengwei Qin , Yujiu Yang , Linyi Yang

The rapid evolution of video generative models has shifted their focus from producing visually plausible outputs to tackling tasks requiring physical plausibility and logical consistency. However, despite recent breakthroughs such as Veo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Harold Haodong Chen , Disen Lan , Wen-Jie Shu , Qingyang Liu , Zihan Wang , Sirui Chen , Wenkai Cheng , Kanghao Chen , Hongfei Zhang , Zixin Zhang , Rongjin Guo , Yu Cheng , Ying-Cong Chen

The rapid advancement of AI-generated video models has created a pressing need for robust and interpretable evaluation frameworks. Existing metrics are limited to producing numerical scores without explanatory comments, resulting in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiao Liu , Jiawei Zhang

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) technology, as demonstrated by models such as Runway Gen-3, Pika, Sora, and Kling, have significantly broadened the applicability and popularity of the technology. This progress has created a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zelu Qi , Ping Shi , Shuqi Wang , Chaoyang Zhang , Fei Zhao , Zefeng Ying , Da Pan , Xi Yang , Zheqi He , Teng Dai

Evaluating the nuanced human-centric video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains a great challenge, as existing benchmarks often overlook the intricacies of emotion, behavior, and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ting Zhou , Daoyuan Chen , Qirui Jiao , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Video generation driven by artificial intelligence has advanced significantly, enabling the creation of dynamic and realistic content. However, maintaining character consistency across video sequences remains a major challenge, with current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Michal Podstawski , Malgorzata Kudelska , Haohong Wang

Commercial video generation systems such as Seedance2.0 and Veo3.1 have rapidly improved, strengthening the view that video generators may be evolving into "world simulators." Yet the community still lacks a benchmark that directly tests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Keming Wu , Yijing Cui , Wenhan Xue , Qijie Wang , Xuan Luo , Zhiyuan Feng , Zuhao Yang , Sudong Wang , Sicong Jiang , Haowei Zhu , Zihan Wang , Ping Nie , Wenhu Chen , Bin Wang

Drama script continuation requires models to maintain character consistency, advance plot coherently, and preserve dramatic structurecapabilities that existing benchmarks fail to evaluate comprehensively. We present DramaBench, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Shijian Ma , Yunqi Huang , Yan Lin

Visual narrative generation transforms textual narratives into sequences of images illustrating the content of the text. However, generating visual narratives that are faithful to the input text and self-consistent across generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Silin Gao , Sheryl Mathew , Li Mi , Sepideh Mamooler , Mengjie Zhao , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut

Generating high-quality cartoon animations multimodal control is challenging due to the complexity of non-human characters, stylistically diverse motions and fine-grained emotions. There is a huge domain gap between real-world videos and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuolin Xu , Bingyuan Wang , Zeyu Cai , Fangteng Fu , Yue Ma , Tongyi Lee , Hongchuan Yu , Zeyu Wang

Video--based world models have emerged along two dominant paradigms: video generation and 3D reconstruction. However, existing evaluation benchmarks either focus narrowly on visual fidelity and text--video alignment for generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Meiqi Wu , Zhixin Cai , Fufangchen Zhao , Xiaokun Feng , Rujing Dang , Bingze Song , Ruitian Tian , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Hao Dou , Jing Tang , Lei Sun , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Zeming Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Many graphics rendering algorithms used in both real-time games and virtual reality applications can get performance boosts by temporally reusing previous computations. However, algorithms based on temporal reuse are typically measured…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erfan Momeni Yazdi , Markku Mäkitalo , Julius Ikkala , Pekka Jääskeläinen

In recent years, vision language models (VLMs) have made significant advancements in video understanding. However, a crucial capability - fine-grained motion comprehension - remains under-explored in current benchmarks. To address this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Zhuoyi Yang , Weihan Wang , Lefan Wang , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Recent progress in text-to-video (T2V) generation has enabled the synthesis of visually compelling and temporally coherent videos from natural language. However, these models often fall short in basic physical commonsense, producing outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Enes Sanli , Baris Sarper Tezcan , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Custom Storyboard Generation (CSG) aims to produce high-quality, multi-character consistent storytelling. Current approaches based on static diffusion models, whether used in a one-shot manner or within multi-agent frameworks, face three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hailong Yan , Shice Liu , Tao Wang , Xiangtao Zhang , Yijie Zhong , Jinwei Chen , Le Zhang , Bo Li

We propose T2I-ReasonBench, a benchmark evaluating reasoning capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) models. It consists of four dimensions: Idiom Interpretation, Textual Image Design, Entity-Reasoning and Scientific-Reasoning. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kaiyue Sun , Rongyao Fang , Chengqi Duan , Xian Liu , Xihui Liu

Recovering editable CAD programs from images or 3D observations is central to AI-assisted design, but progress is difficult to measure because existing evaluations are fragmented across datasets, modalities, and metrics. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Anna C. Doris , Jacob Thomas Sony , Ghadi Nehme , Era Syla , Amin Heyrani Nobari , Faez Ahmed

With AI-generated videos increasingly indistinguishable from reality, current benchmarks primarily focus on broad semantic alignment and basic physical consistency, offering limited discriminative power for evaluating them. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiaqi Wang , Weijia Wu , Yi Zhan , Rui Zhao , Ming Hu , James Cheng , Wei Liu , Philip Torr , Kevin Qinghong Lin

Over the years, performance evaluation has become essential in computer vision, enabling tangible progress in many sub-fields. While talking-head video generation has become an emerging research topic, existing evaluations on this topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Ziyi Kou , Haitian Zheng , Chenliang Xu