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Humanoid robots have attracted significant attention in recent years. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the main ways to control the whole body of humanoid robots. RL enables agents to complete tasks by learning from environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xianqi Zhang , Hongliang Wei , Wenrui Wang , Xingtao Wang , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, seemingly plausible outputs often suffer from poor visual and temporal grounding: a model may fabricate object existence, assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yihao Quan , Zeru Shi , Jinman Zhao , Ruixiang Tang

Existing deep models predict 2D and 3D kinematic poses from video that are approximately accurate, but contain visible errors that violate physical constraints, such as feet penetrating the ground and bodies leaning at extreme angles. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas , Aaron Hertzmann , Bryan Russell , Ruben Villegas , Jimei Yang

State-of-the-art text-to-video (T2V) generators frequently violate physical laws despite high visual quality. We show this stems from insufficient physical constraints in prompts rather than model limitations: manually adding physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shang Wu , Chenwei Xu , Zhuofan Xia , Weijian Li , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Han Liu

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jing Gu , Xian Liu , Yu Zeng , Ashwin Nagarajan , Fangrui Zhu , Daniel Hong , Yue Fan , Qianqi Yan , Kaiwen Zhou , Ming-Yu Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Despite recent progress in video generation, producing videos that adhere to physical laws remains a significant challenge. Traditional diffusion-based methods struggle to extrapolate to unseen physical conditions (eg, velocity) due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wang Lin , Liyu Jia , Wentao Hu , Kaihang Pan , Zhongqi Yue , Wei Zhao , Jingyuan Chen , Fei Wu , Hanwang Zhang

Recent advances in video generation models demonstrate their potential as world simulators, but they often struggle with videos deviating from physical laws, a key concern overlooked by most text-to-video benchmarks. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yongfan Chen , Xiuwen Zhu , Tianyu Li

Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard perception. Directly applying reinforcement learning (RL) with…

Learning to produce efficient movement behaviour for humanoid robots from scratch is a hard problem, as has been illustrated by the "Learning to run" competition at NIPS 2017. The goal of this competition was to train a two-legged model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Aleksandra Malysheva , Daniel Kudenko , Aleksei Shpilman

Anime video generation faces significant challenges due to the scarcity of anime data and unusual motion patterns, leading to issues such as motion distortion and flickering artifacts, which result in misalignment with human preferences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Bingwen Zhu , Yudong Jiang , Baohan Xu , Siqian Yang , Mingyu Yin , Yidi Wu , Huyang Sun , Zuxuan Wu

3D Human motion generation is pivotal across film, animation, gaming, and embodied intelligence. Traditional 3D motion synthesis relies on costly motion capture, while recent work shows that 2D videos provide rich, temporally coherent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yi-Yang Zhang , Tengjiao Sun , Pengcheng Fang , Deng-Bao Wang , Xiaohao Cai , Min-Ling Zhang , Hansung Kim

Existing video generation models excel at producing photo-realistic videos from text or images, but often lack physical plausibility and 3D controllability. To overcome these limitations, we introduce PhysCtrl, a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Yiming Huang , Zhiyang Dou , Yuan Liu , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

In this paper, we present a novel framework designed to reconstruct long-sequence 3D human motion in the world coordinates from in-the-wild videos with multiple shot transitions. Such long-sequence in-the-wild motions are highly valuable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuhong Zhang , Guanlin Wu , Ling-Hao Chen , Zhuokai Zhao , Jing Lin , Xiaoke Jiang , Jiamin Wu , Zhuoheng Li , Hao Frank Yang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lee Hsin-Ying , Hanwen Jiang , Yiqun Mei , Jing Shi , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

From an image of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D motion of the person in the immediate past and future. This is because we have a mental model of 3D human dynamics that we have acquired from observing visual sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Angjoo Kanazawa , Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik

Text-driven human motion synthesis has showcased its potential for revolutionizing motion design in the movie and game industry. Existing methods often rely on 3D motion capture data, which requires special setups, resulting in high costs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ruoxi Guo , Huaijin Pi , Zehong Shen , Qing Shuai , Zechen Hu , Zhumei Wang , Yajiao Dong , Ruizhen Hu , Taku Komura , Sida Peng , Xiaowei Zhou

Generating 3D human motions from textual descriptions is an important research problem with broad applications in video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Recent methods align the textual description with human motion at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Bowen Dang , Lin Wu , Xiaohang Yang , Zheng Yuan , Zhixiang Chen

Human-motion video generation has been a challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty inherent in learning human body movements. While some approaches have attempted to drive human-centric video generation explicitly through pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Boyuan Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Zhiqin Yang , Zheng Zhu , Muyang Zhang , Yukun Zhou , Xinze Chen , Guan Huang , Lihong Liu , Xingang Wang

Generating realistic and controllable human motions, particularly those involving rich multi-character interactions, remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexities of modeling inter-personal dynamics. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ruihao Xi , Xuekuan Wang , Yongcheng Li , Shuhua Li , Zichen Wang , Yiwei Wang , Feng Wei , Cairong Zhao