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Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiaming Li , Yukun Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Minghuan Tan , Lei Zhang , Yunshui Li , Run Luo , Longze Chen , Jing Luo , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Wei Zhou , Min Yang

Existing approaches for digital short-drama production typically rely on one-shot LLM generated scripts and loosely coupled pipelines, which fail to satisfy three key requirements of short-drama generation: (1) narrative pacing, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yufei Shi , Weilong Yan , Naixuan Huang , Yucheng Chen , Chenyu Zhang , Tao He , Si Yong Yeo , Ming Li

Bridging vision and natural language is a longstanding goal in computer vision and multimedia research. While earlier works focus on generating a single-sentence description for visual content, recent works have studied paragraph…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Story visualization aims to generate a series of realistic and coherent images based on a storyline. Current models adopt a frame-by-frame architecture by transforming the pre-trained text-to-image model into an auto-regressive manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Hao Tang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

With the explosive growth of digital entertainment, automated video summarization has become indispensable for applications such as content indexing, personalized recommendation, and efficient media archiving. Automatic synopsis generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yizhi Li , Xiaohan Chen , Miao Jiang , Wentao Tang , Gaoang Wang

Traditional visual storytelling is complex, requiring specialized knowledge and substantial resources, yet often constrained by human creativity and creation precision. While Large Language Models (LLMs) enhance visual storytelling, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuzhou Huang , Yiran Qin , Shunlin Lu , Xintao Wang , Rui Huang , Ying Shan , Ruimao Zhang

Existing multi-agent video generation systems use LLM agents to orchestrate neural video generators, producing visually impressive but semantically unreliable outputs with no ground truth annotations. We present an agentic system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nicolae Cudlenco , Mihai Masala , Marius Leordeanu

We present CreAgentive, an agent workflow driven multi-category creative generation engine that addresses four key limitations of contemporary large language models in writing stories, drama and other categories of creatives: restricted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuyang Cheng , Linyue Cai , Changwei Peng , Yumiao Xu , Rongfang Bie , Yong Zhao

Generating long-form audio-visual stories from a short user prompt remains challenging due to an intent-execution gap, where high-level narrative intent must be preserved across coherent, shot-level multimodal generation over long horizons.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenzhang Sun , Zhenyu Wang , Zhangchi Hu , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Wei Chen

Video understanding has seen significant progress in recent years, with models' performance on perception from short clips continuing to rise. Yet, multiple recent benchmarks, such as LVBench, Neptune, and ActivityNet-RTL, show performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sachit Menon , Ahmet Iscen , Arsha Nagrani , Tobias Weyand , Carl Vondrick , Cordelia Schmid

We present PresentAgent, a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentation videos. While existing approaches are limited to generating static slides or text summaries, our method advances beyond these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingwei Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Yanjie Liang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Automated movie creation requires coordinating multiple characters, modalities, and narrative elements across extended sequences -- a challenge that existing end-to-end approaches struggle to address effectively. We present…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyidan Xie , Zhentao Huang , Mingjie Wang , Xin Huang , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong , Zili Yi

Existing multimodal retrieval systems excel at semantic matching but implicitly assume that query-image relevance can be measured in isolation. This paradigm overlooks the rich dependencies inherent in realistic visual streams, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenlong Deng , Mengjie Deng , Junjie Wu , Dun Zeng , Teng Wang , Qingsong Xie , Jiadeng Huang , Shengjie Ma , Changwang Zhang , Zhaoxiang Wang , Jun Wang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

The Agent and AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technologies have recently made significant progress. We propose AesopAgent, an Agent-driven Evolutionary System on Story-to-Video Production. AesopAgent is a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jiuniu Wang , Zehua Du , Yuyuan Zhao , Bo Yuan , Kexiang Wang , Jian Liang , Yaxi Zhao , Yihen Lu , Gengliang Li , Junlong Gao , Xin Tu , Zhenyu Guo

In this work, we propose a framework that creates a lively virtual dynamic scene with contextual motions of multiple humans. Generating multi-human contextual motion requires holistic reasoning over dynamic relationships among human-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Donggeun Lim , Jinseok Bae , Inwoo Hwang , Seungmin Lee , Hwanhee Lee , Young Min Kim

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) has accelerated AI-native applications, such as AI-based storybooks that automate engaging story production for children. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xuenan Xu , Jiahao Mei , Chenliang Li , Yuning Wu , Ming Yan , Shaopeng Lai , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu

Recent agentic systems demonstrate that large language models can generate scientific visualizations from natural language. However, reliability remains a major limitation: systems may execute invalid operations, introduce subtle but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nathaniel Gorski , Shusen Liu , Bei Wang

The proliferation of generative AI has transformed creative workflows, yet current systems face critical challenges in controllability and content protection. We propose a novel multi-agent framework that addresses both limitations through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haris Khan , Sadia Asif

Long-form video understanding remains fundamentally challenged by pervasive spatiotemporal redundancy and intricate narrative dependencies that span extended temporal horizons. While recent structured representations compress visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuehan Zhu , Jingqi Zhao , Jiawen Zhao , Xudong Mao , Baoquan Zhao

Generating coherent and communicative visual sequences, such as image sequences and videos, remains a significant challenge for current multimodal systems. Despite advances in visual quality and the integration of world knowledge, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chutian Meng , Fan Ma , Chi Zhang , Jiaxu Miao , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang