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A surgical world model capable of generating realistic surgical action videos with precise control over tool-tissue interactions can address fundamental challenges in surgical AI and simulation -- from data scarcity and rare event synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sampath Rapuri , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Dominik Schneider , Roger Soberanis-Mukul , Yufan He , Hao Ding , Jiru Xu , Chenhao Yu , Chenyan Jing , Pengfei Guo , Daguang Xu , Mathias Unberath

Panoramic video generation enables immersive 360{\deg} content creation, valuable in applications that demand scene-consistent world exploration. However, existing panoramic video generation models struggle to leverage pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yifei Xia , Shuchen Weng , Siqi Yang , Jingqi Liu , Chengxuan Zhu , Minggui Teng , Zijian Jia , Han Jiang , Boxin Shi

We propose FlashWorld, a generative model that produces 3D scenes from a single image or text prompt in seconds, 10~100$\times$ faster than previous works while possessing superior rendering quality. Our approach shifts from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinyang Li , Tengfei Wang , Zixiao Gu , Shengchuan Zhang , Chunchao Guo , Liujuan Cao

Diffusion models have revolutionized image and video generation, achieving unprecedented visual quality. However, their reliance on transformer architectures incurs prohibitively high computational costs, particularly when extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Justin Cui , Jie Wu , Ming Li , Tao Yang , Xiaojie Li , Rui Wang , Andrew Bai , Yuanhao Ban , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Notable breakthroughs in diffusion modeling have propelled rapid improvements in video generation, yet current foundational model still face critical challenges in simultaneously balancing prompt following, motion plausibility, and visual…

We introduce Latent-WAM, an efficient end-to-end autonomous driving framework that achieves strong trajectory planning through spatially-aware and dynamics-informed latent world representations. Existing world-model-based planners suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Linbo Wang , Yupeng Zheng , Qiang Chen , Shiwei Li , Yichen Zhang , Zebin Xing , Qichao Zhang , Xiang Li , Deheng Qian , Pengxuan Yang , Yihang Dong , Ce Hao , Xiaoqing Ye , Junyu han , Yifeng Pan , Dongbin Zhao

The quadratic time and memory complexity of the attention mechanism in modern Transformer based video generators makes end-to-end training for ultra high resolution videos prohibitively expensive. Motivated by this limitation, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yunfeng Wu , Jiayi Song , Zhenxiong Tan , Zihao He , Songhua Liu

World models based on video generation demonstrate remarkable potential for simulating interactive environments but face persistent difficulties in two key areas: maintaining long-term content consistency when scenes are revisited and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tianxing Xu , Zixuan Wang , Guangyuan Wang , Li Hu , Zhongyi Zhang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, Scale-Aware Modulation Transformer (SMT), that can handle various downstream tasks efficiently by combining the convolutional network and vision Transformer. The proposed Scale-Aware Modulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Weifeng Lin , Ziheng Wu , Jiayu Chen , Jun Huang , Lianwen Jin

Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynamics and interactive behaviors. However, existing interactive world models depend on…

We present Wan-Move, a simple and scalable framework that brings motion control to video generative models. Existing motion-controllable methods typically suffer from coarse control granularity and limited scalability, leaving their outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ruihang Chu , Yefei He , Zhekai Chen , Shiwei Zhang , Xiaogang Xu , Bin Xia , Dingdong Wang , Hongwei Yi , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Yu Liu , Yingya Zhang , Yujiu Yang

Video depth estimation has long been hindered by the scarcity of consistent and scalable ground truth data, leading to inconsistent and unreliable results. In this paper, we introduce Depth Any Video, a model that tackles the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Honghui Yang , Di Huang , Wei Yin , Chunhua Shen , Haifeng Liu , Xiaofei He , Binbin Lin , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He

Real-world image super-resolution aims to recover high-quality images from complex and unknown real-world degradations. However, existing generative Real-ISR methods largely inherit the dense latent representations and quadratic-cost global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bingtian Qiao , Yue Shi , Yingjie Zhou , Yong Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Jiezhang Cao

Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inference costs. Compared with image generation, video synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Pengfei Wan , James Kwok , Zeke Xie

We propose Infinite-World, a robust interactive world model capable of maintaining coherent visual memory over 1000+ frames in complex real-world environments. While existing world models can be efficiently optimized on synthetic data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ruiqi Wu , Xuanhua He , Meng Cheng , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xunliang Cai , Xiaoming Wei , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Scaling video diffusion transformers (DiTs) is limited by their quadratic 3D attention, even though most of the attention mass concentrates on a small subset of positions. We turn this observation into VSA, a trainable, hardware-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peiyuan Zhang , Yongqi Chen , Haofeng Huang , Will Lin , Zhengzhong Liu , Ion Stoica , Eric Xing , Hao Zhang

What if a world simulation model could render not an imagined environment but a city that actually exists? Prior generative world models synthesize visually plausible yet artificial environments by imagining all content. We present Seoul…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Junyoung Seo , Hyunwook Choi , Minkyung Kwon , Jinhyeok Choi , Siyoon Jin , Gayoung Lee , Junho Kim , JoungBin Lee , Geonmo Gu , Dongyoon Han , Sangdoo Yun , Seungryong Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim

In video generation models, particularly world models, training large-scale video diffusion Transformers (such as DiT and MMDiT) poses significant computational challenges due to the extreme variance in sequence lengths within mixed-mode…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yucheng Guo , Yongjian Guo , Zhong Guan , Haoran Sun , Wen Huang , Wanting Xu , Jing Long , Shuai Di , Junwu Xiong

Current motion-conditioned video generation methods suffer from prohibitive latency (minutes per video) and non-causal processing that prevents real-time interaction. We present MotionStream, enabling sub-second latency with up to 29 FPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Joonghyuk Shin , Zhengqi Li , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang