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We introduce a framework that enables both multi-view character consistency and 3D camera control in video diffusion models through a novel customization data pipeline. We train the character consistency component with recorded volumetric…

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Effective and generalizable control in video generation remains a significant challenge. While many methods rely on ambiguous or task-specific signals, we argue that a fundamental disentanglement of "appearance" and "motion" provides a more…

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Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

Image animation has seen significant progress, driven by the powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, maintaining appearance consistency with static input images and mitigating abrupt motion transitions in generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Genyun Jia , Xinyuan Chen , Tien-Tsin Wong , Cunjian Chen

Recent advancements in video generation have been remarkable, yet many existing methods struggle with issues of consistency and poor text-video alignment. Moreover, the field lacks effective techniques for text-guided video inpainting, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xianbiao Qi , Jianan Wang , Yukai Shi , Qianyu Chen , Bin Liang , Kam-Fai Wong , Lei Zhang

While current vision algorithms excel at many challenging tasks, it is unclear how well they understand the physical dynamics of real-world environments. Here we introduce Physion, a dataset and benchmark for rigorously evaluating the…

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Edoardo A. Dominici , Thomas Deixelberger , Konstantinos Vardis , Markus Steinberger

Generative world models are increasingly used for video generation, where learned simulators are expected to capture the physical rules that govern real-world dynamics. However, evaluating whether generated videos actually follow these…

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Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in creating high-quality, photorealistic content. However, their ability to accurately simulate physical phenomena remains a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper presents…

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Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress with the introduction of diffusion models, which have significantly improved the quality of generated videos. However, recent research has primarily focused on scaling up model training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chenyang Si , Weichen Fan , Zhengyao Lv , Ziqi Huang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled impressive image generation capabilities guided by text prompts. However, extending these techniques to video generation remains challenging, with existing text-to-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weifeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Jie Wu , Hefeng Wu , Pan Xie , Jiashi Li , Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Liang Lin

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown impressive performance across a wide range of video-language tasks. However, they often fail in scenarios requiring a deeper understanding of physical dynamics. This limitation primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yu-Wei Zhan , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Tongtong Feng , Wei Feng , Ren Wang , Guangyao Li , Qing Li , Wenwu Zhu

Diffusion models can generate realistic videos, but existing methods rely on implicitly learning physical reasoning from large-scale text-video datasets, which is costly, difficult to scale, and still prone to producing implausible motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yutong Hao , Chen Chen , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Chang Xu , Daochang Liu

Modeling sounds emitted from physical object interactions is critical for immersive perceptual experiences in real and virtual worlds. Traditional methods of impact sound synthesis use physics simulation to obtain a set of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kun Su , Kaizhi Qian , Eli Shlizerman , Antonio Torralba , Chuang Gan

We investigate how to enhance the physical fidelity of video generation models by leveraging synthetic videos derived from computer graphics pipelines. These rendered videos respect real-world physics, such as maintaining 3D consistency,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Qi Zhao , Xingyu Ni , Ziyu Wang , Feng Cheng , Ziyan Yang , Lu Jiang , Bohan Wang