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Understanding the physical world requires perceptual models grounded in physical laws rather than mere statistical correlations. However, existing multimodal learning frameworks, focused on vision and language, lack physical consistency and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bo Pang , Chenxi Xu , Jierui Ren , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xiao Tang , Jiayi Luo , Xin Jin , Long Chen , Zhibo Chen

We present PhysGen, a novel image-to-video generation method that converts a single image and an input condition (e.g., force and torque applied to an object in the image) to produce a realistic, physically plausible, and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shaowei Liu , Zhongzheng Ren , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

Image-to-video generation, which aims to generate a video starting from a given reference image, has drawn great attention. Existing methods try to extend pre-trained text-guided image diffusion models to image-guided video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cong Wang , Jiaxi Gu , Panwen Hu , Songcen Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

We introduce World Consistency Score (WCS), a novel unified evaluation metric for generative video models that emphasizes internal world consistency of the generated videos. WCS integrates four interpretable sub-components - object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Akshat Rakheja , Aarsh Ashdhir , Aryan Bhattacharjee , Vanshika Sharma

Recent advancements in generative models have provided promising solutions for synthesizing realistic driving videos, which are crucial for training autonomous driving perception models. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Wu , Xi Guo , Weixuan Tang , Tingxuan Huang , Chiyu Wang , Dongyue Chen , Chenjing Ding

While current video generation focuses on text or image conditions, practical applications like video editing and vlogging often need to seamlessly connect separate clips. In our work, we introduce Video Connecting, an innovative task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhiyu Yin , Zhipeng Liu , Kehai Chen , Lemao Liu , Jin Liu , Hong-Dong Li , Yang Xiang , Min Zhang

Real-world videos naturally portray complex interactions among distinct physical objects, effectively forming dynamic compositions of visual elements. However, most current video generation models synthesize scenes holistically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guofeng Zhang , Angtian Wang , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Liming Jiang , Haotian Yang , Alan Yuille , Chongyang Ma

Echocardiography video is a primary modality for diagnosing heart diseases, but the limited data poses challenges for both clinical teaching and machine learning training. Recently, video generative models have emerged as a promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Junxuan Yu , Rusi Chen , Yongsong Zhou , Yanlin Chen , Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Han Zhou , Tan Tao , Xin Yang , Dong Ni

Generating multi-view images based on text or single-image prompts is a critical capability for the creation of 3D content. Two fundamental questions on this topic are what data we use for training and how to ensure multi-view consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Lingteng Qiu , Yuan Dong , Zhengyi Zhao , Weihao Yuan , Rui Peng , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Qixing Huang

Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, some human parts in many video frames cannot be seen due to off-screen captures or occlusions. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Boyuan Li , Sipeng Zheng , Bin Cao , Ruihua Song , Zongqing Lu

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Recent generative models can produce high-fidelity videos, yet they often exhibit 3D spatial geometric inconsistencies. Existing evaluation methods fail to accurately characterize these inconsistencies: fidelity-centric metrics like FVD are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Weijia Dou , Wenzhao Zheng , Weiliang Chen , Yu Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Text-driven diffusion models have unlocked unprecedented abilities in image generation, whereas their video counterpart still lags behind due to the excessive training cost of temporal modeling. Besides the training burden, the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yabo Zhang , Yuxiang Wei , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Qi Tian

Despite advancements in generating visually stunning content, video diffusion models (VDMs) often yield physically inconsistent results due to pixel-only reconstruction. To address this, we propose MMPhysVideo, the first framework to scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shubo Lin , Xuanyang Zhang , Wei Cheng , Weiming Hu , Gang Yu , Jin Gao

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

We introduce a novel diffusion-based video generation method, generating a video showing multiple events given multiple individual sentences from the user. Our method does not require a large-scale video dataset since our method uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gyeongrok Oh , Jaehwan Jeong , Sieun Kim , Wonmin Byeon , Jinkyu Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Sangpil Kim

Video generation has advanced rapidly, improving evaluation methods, yet assessing video's motion remains a major challenge. Specifically, there are two key issues: 1) current motion metrics do not fully align with human perceptions; 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinran Ling , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Hangyu Li , Xiaokun Feng , Cundian Yang , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

Video generation requires synthesizing consistent and persistent frames with dynamic content over time. This work investigates modeling the temporal relations for composing video with arbitrary length, from a few frames to even infinite,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Qihang Zhang , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Bolei Zhou