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Audio Descriptions (ADs) aim to provide a narration of a movie in text form, describing non-dialogue-related narratives, such as characters, actions, or scene establishment. Automatic generation of ADs remains challenging due to: i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Bo Fang , Wenhao Wu , Qiangqiang Wu , Yuxin Song , Antoni B. Chan

Semantic segmentation in real-world applications often requires not only accurate masks but also strict adherence to textual labeling guidelines. These guidelines are typically complex and long, and both human and automated labeling often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Vanshika Vats , Ashwani Rathee , James Davis

State-of-the-art text-to-video models excel at generating isolated clips but fall short of creating the coherent, multi-shot narratives, which are the essence of storytelling. We bridge this "narrative gap" with HoloCine, a model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yihao Meng , Hao Ouyang , Yue Yu , Qiuyu Wang , Wen Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Hanlin Wang , Yixuan Li , Cheng Chen , Yanhong Zeng , Yujun Shen , Huamin Qu

Realistic scene-level multi-agent motion simulations are crucial for developing and evaluating self-driving algorithms. However, most existing works focus on generating trajectories for a certain single agent type, and typically ignore the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiming Guo , Xing Gao , Jianlan Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi

Current language models achieve low perplexity but their resulting generations still suffer from toxic responses, repetitiveness and contradictions. The standard language modeling setup fails to address these issues. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kushal Arora , Kurt Shuster , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Jason Weston

Constructing memory from users' long-term conversations overcomes LLMs' contextual limitations and enables personalized interactions. Recent studies focus on hierarchical memory to model users' multi-granular behavioral patterns via…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Wenyu Mao , Haosong Tan , Shuchang Liu , Haoyang Liu , Yifan Xu , Huaxiang Ji , Xiang Wang

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Xingxi Yin , Yan Gong , Ruilin Li , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Many advancements have been made in procedural content generation for games, and with mixed-initiative co-creativity, have the potential for great benefits to human designers. However, co-creative systems for game generation are typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Rohan Agarwal , Zhiyu Lin , Mark Riedl

As a widely-used and practical tool, feature engineering transforms raw data into discriminative features to advance AI model performance. However, existing methods usually apply feature selection and generation separately, failing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nanxu Gong , Sixun Dong , Haoyue Bai , Xinyuan Wang , Wangyang Ying , Yanjie Fu

Recent video generation models have shown promising results in producing high-quality video clips lasting several seconds. However, these models face challenges in generating long sequences that convey clear and informative events, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junfei Xiao , Feng Cheng , Lu Qi , Liangke Gui , Jiepeng Cen , Zhibei Ma , Alan Yuille , Lu Jiang

Multimodal story customization aims to generate coherent story flows conditioned on textual descriptions, reference identity images, and shot types. While recent progress in story generation has shown promising results, most approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Chu-Song Chen

Recent advances in AI-driven storytelling have enhanced video generation and story visualization. However, translating dialogue-centric scripts into coherent storyboards remains a significant challenge due to limited script detail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Min Zhang , Zilin Wang , Liyan Chen , Kunhong Liu , Juncong Lin

GenAI's ability to produce text and images is increasingly incorporated into human-AI co-creation tasks such as storytelling and video editing. However, integrating GenAI into these tasks requires enabling users to retain control over…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Shuo Niu , Dylan Clements , Marina Margalit Nemanov , Hyungsin Kim

Quality-Diversity is a branch of stochastic optimization that is often applied to problems from the Reinforcement Learning and control domains in order to construct repertoires of well-performing policies/skills that exhibit diversity with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Achkan Salehi , Stephane Doncieux

Storyboarding is a core skill in visual storytelling for film, animation, and games. However, automating this process requires a system to achieve two properties that current approaches rarely satisfy simultaneously: inter-shot consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bingliang Li , Zhenhong Sun , Jiaming Bian , Yuehao Wu , Yifu Wang , Hongdong Li , Yatao Bian , Huadong Mo , Daoyi Dong

Multimodal Large Language Models have shown promising capabilities in bridging visual and textual reasoning, yet their reasoning capabilities in Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction (OV-HOI) are limited by cross-modal hallucinations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhenlong Yuan , Yue Wang , Dapeng Zhang , Kejin Cui , Rui Chen , Jing Tang , Lei Sun , Hongwei Yu , Chengxuan Qian , Xiangxiang Chu , Shuo Li , Yuyin Zhou

Video mashup creation represents a complex video editing paradigm that recomposes existing footage to craft engaging audio-visual experiences, demanding intricate orchestration across semantic, visual, and auditory dimensions and multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ke Li , Maoliang Li , Jialiang Chen , Jiayu Chen , Zihao Zheng , Shaoqi Wang , Xiang Chen

Language-guided autonomous driving requires bridging a large abstraction gap between high-level natural-language instructions and low-level vehicle control. End-to-end approaches that use a single multimodal large language model (MLLM) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zaibin Zhang , Talas Fu , Shiyu Tang , Yuanhang Zhang , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Autoregressive Model (AR) has shown remarkable success in conditional image generation. However, these approaches for multiple reference generation struggle with decoupling different reference identities. In this work, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haiyue Sun , Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Peng Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Shuicheng Yan

In dyadic speaker-listener interactions, the listener's head reactions along with the speaker's head movements, constitute an important non-verbal semantic expression together. The listener Head generation task aims to synthesize responsive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zhigang Chang , Weitai Hu , Qing Yang , Shibao Zheng