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Video world models should maintain evolving states when evidence is unobserved, yet current generators often freeze hidden states upon interruption. This is not simply a capacity problem: pretrained video diffusion transformers already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tianshuo Xu , Yichen Xie , Depu Meng , Chensheng Peng , Quentin Herau , Bo Jiang , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

Recent self-supervised video representation learning methods have found significant success by exploring essential properties of videos, e.g. speed, temporal order, etc. This work exploits an essential yet under-explored property of videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Hanwen Liang , Niamul Quader , Zhixiang Chi , Lizhe Chen , Peng Dai , Juwei Lu , Yang Wang

Evaluating generative video models remains an open problem. Reference-based metrics such as Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) reward pixel fidelity over semantic correctness, while Frechet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Karthik Inbasekar , Guy Rom , Omer Shlomovits

Visual saliency models have enjoyed a big leap in performance in recent years, thanks to advances in deep learning and large scale annotated data. Despite enormous effort and huge breakthroughs, however, models still fall short in reaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ali Borji

This paper presents TCE: Temporally Coherent Embeddings for self-supervised video representation learning. The proposed method exploits inherent structure of unlabeled video data to explicitly enforce temporal coherency in the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Joshua Knights , Ben Harwood , Daniel Ward , Anthony Vanderkop , Olivia Mackenzie-Ross , Peyman Moghadam

Emerging multi-modal world models attempt to jointly generate videos across diverse modalities (e.g., RGB, depth, and mask), yet they fail to fully exploit the rich priors of existing foundation models. We propose $M^2$-REPA, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Junyuan Xiao , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Yixuan Ye , Tongtong Su , Guangmo Yi , Bin Xia , Qiang Lyu , Shurui Shi , Jun Huang , Jianlou Si , Wenming Yang

Consistency models have demonstrated powerful capability in efficient image generation and allowed synthesis within a few sampling steps, alleviating the high computational cost in diffusion models. However, the consistency model in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Han Zhang , Yu Liu , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jiakai Wang , Zixin Yin , Pengfei Hu , Aishan Liu , Renshuai Tao , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

This paper proposes a novel pretext task to address the self-supervised video representation learning problem. Specifically, given an unlabeled video clip, we compute a series of spatio-temporal statistical summaries, such as the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jiangliu Wang , Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Shengfeng He , Wei Liu , Yun-hui Liu

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Stochastic video prediction models take in a sequence of image frames, and generate a sequence of consecutive future image frames. These models typically generate future frames in an autoregressive fashion, which is slow and requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ananya Kumar , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo J. Rezende , Marta Garnelo , Fabio Viola , Edward Lockhart , Murray Shanahan

Current work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) explore deterministic approaches conditioned on various types of image and question features. We posit that, in addition to image and question pairs, other modalities are useful for teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zixu Wang , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks are vulnerable to common corruptions (e.g., input data degradations, distortions, and disturbances caused by weather changes, system error, and processing). While much progress has been made in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chenyu Yi , Siyuan Yang , Haoliang Li , Yap-peng Tan , Alex Kot

Video-language models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding video content but struggle with spatial relationships, temporal ordering, and cross-frame continuity. To address these limitations, we introduce VideoPASTA (Preference Alignment with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yogesh Kulkarni , Pooyan Fazli

We present Stable Video Diffusion - a latent video diffusion model for high-resolution, state-of-the-art text-to-video and image-to-video generation. Recently, latent diffusion models trained for 2D image synthesis have been turned into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Andreas Blattmann , Tim Dockhorn , Sumith Kulal , Daniel Mendelevitch , Maciej Kilian , Dominik Lorenz , Yam Levi , Zion English , Vikram Voleti , Adam Letts , Varun Jampani , Robin Rombach

Event camera, a novel neuromorphic vision sensor, records data with high temporal resolution and wide dynamic range, offering new possibilities for accurate visual representation in challenging scenarios. However, event data is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lin Zhu , Ruonan Liu , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to the development of Video Large Multi-modal Models (Video-LMMs) that can handle a wide range of video understanding tasks. These models have the potential to be deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Jameel Hassan , Muzammal Naseer , Federico Tombari , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Video vision-language models (VLMs) keep paying for visual state the stream already told us was stable. The factory wall did not move, but most VLM pipelines still hand the model dense RGB frames or a fresh prefix again. We study that waste…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 JF Bastien , Sam D'Amico

Emerging generative world models and vision-language-action (VLA) systems are rapidly reshaping automated driving by enabling scalable simulation, long-horizon forecasting, and capability-rich decision making. Across these directions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Rongxiang Zeng , Yongqi Dong

Generative video modeling has made significant strides, yet ensuring structural and temporal consistency over long sequences remains a challenge. Current methods predominantly rely on RGB signals, leading to accumulated errors in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhiheng Liu , Xueqing Deng , Shoufa Chen , Angtian Wang , Qiushan Guo , Mingfei Han , Zeyue Xue , Mengzhao Chen , Ping Luo , Linjie Yang