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Video generation models have shown strong potential as world models for autonomous driving simulation. However, existing approaches are primarily trained on real-world driving datasets, which mostly contain natural and safe driving…

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Recent diffusion-based video generation models can synthesize visually plausible videos, yet they often struggle to satisfy physical constraints. A key reason is that most existing approaches remain single-stage: they entangle high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yibo Zhao , Hengjia Li , Xiaofei He , Boxi Wu

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

Existing single-image 3D indoor scene generators often produce results that look visually plausible but fail to obey real-world physics, limiting their reliability in robotics, embodied AI, and design. To examine this gap, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dongli Wu , Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Xiaobao Wei , Chengwen Luo , Jianqiang Li , Zhengzhe Liu

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising basis for such simulators because they can generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pu Zhao , Juyi Lin , Timothy Rupprecht , Arash Akbari , Chence Yang , Rahul Chowdhury , Elaheh Motamedi , Arman Akbari , Yumei He , Chen Wang , Geng Yuan , Weiwei Chen , Yanzhi Wang

Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Saurabh Pathak , Elahe Arani , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bahram Zonooz

The scarcity of large-scale robotic data has motivated the repurposing of foundation models from other modalities for policy learning. In this work, we introduce PhysGen (Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Generation Models), a scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zijian Song , Qichang Li , Sihan Qin , Yuhao Chen , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have achieved remarkable visual realism but still struggle to obey basic physical laws such as gravity, inertia, and collision. Generated objects often move inconsistently across frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lin Geng Foo , Mark He Huang , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shengqu Cai , Duygu Ceylan , Matheus Gadelha , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Tuanfeng Yang Wang , Gordon Wetzstein

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the creation of high-quality, visually compelling videos. However, generating videos that adhere to the laws of physics remains a critical challenge for applications requiring realism and…

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High-quality driving video generation is crucial for providing training data for autonomous driving models. However, current generative models rarely focus on enhancing camera motion control under multi-view tasks, which is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yining Yao , Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Wei Wu

We introduce PhysMotion, a novel framework that leverages principled physics-based simulations to guide intermediate 3D representations generated from a single image and input conditions (e.g., applied force and torque), producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiyang Tan , Ying Jiang , Xuan Li , Zeshun Zong , Tianyi Xie , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Recently video diffusion models have emerged as expressive generative tools for high-quality video content creation readily available to general users. However, these models often do not offer precise control over camera poses for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Dejia Xu , Weili Nie , Chao Liu , Sifei Liu , Jan Kautz , Zhangyang Wang , Arash Vahdat

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

Generating long and consistent videos has emerged as a significant yet challenging problem. While most existing diffusion-based video generation models, derived from image generation models, demonstrate promising performance in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yichen Ouyang , jianhao Yuan , Hao Zhao , Gaoang Wang , Bo zhao

Text-to-video diffusion models are notoriously limited in their ability to model temporal aspects such as motion, physics, and dynamic interactions. Existing approaches address this limitation by retraining the model or introducing external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ariel Shaulov , Itay Hazan , Lior Wolf , Hila Chefer

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xindi Yang , Baolu Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Liqian Ma , Zhiyong Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guanqi Zhan , Xianzheng Ma , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Realistic simulation of dynamic scenes requires accurately capturing diverse material properties and modeling complex object interactions grounded in physical principles. However, existing methods are constrained to basic material types…

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