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A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

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Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

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Video prediction aims to generate realistic future frames by learning dynamic visual patterns. One fundamental challenge is to deal with future uncertainty: How should a model behave when there are multiple correct, equally probable future?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yunseok Jang , Gunhee Kim , Yale Song

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

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

Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiahui Chen , Amy Zhang , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Large-scale video generative models have shown emerging capabilities as zero-shot visual planners, yet video-generated plans often violate temporal consistency and physical constraints, leading to failures when mapped to executable actions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Christos Ziakas , Amir Bar , Alessandra Russo

Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijun Wang , Panwen Hu , Jing Wang , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Yuhao Cheng , Long Chen , Yiqiang Yan , Zutao Jiang , Hanhui Li , Xiaodan Liang

Recent advances in internet-scale video data pretraining have led to the development of text-to-video generative models that can create high-quality videos across a broad range of visual concepts, synthesize realistic motions and render…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Hritik Bansal , Zongyu Lin , Tianyi Xie , Zeshun Zong , Michal Yarom , Yonatan Bitton , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yizhou Sun , Kai-Wei Chang , Aditya Grover

Recent progress in driving video generation has shown significant potential for enhancing self-driving systems by providing scalable and controllable training data. Although pretrained state-of-the-art generation models, guided by 2D layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yishen Ji , Ziyue Zhu , Zhenxin Zhu , Kaixin Xiong , Ming Lu , Zhiqi Li , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Tong Lu

Current video generation models produce high-quality aesthetic videos but often struggle to learn representations of real-world physics dynamics, resulting in artifacts such as unnatural object collisions, inconsistent gravity, and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Siddarth Nilol Kundur Satish , Devesh Jaiswal , Hongyu Chen , Abhishek Bakshi

An agent that is capable of predicting what happens next can perform a variety of tasks through planning with no additional training. Furthermore, such an agent can internally represent the complex dynamics of the real-world and therefore…

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Despite rapid advances in text-to-video synthesis, generated video quality remains critically dependent on precise user prompts. Existing test-time optimization methods, successful in other domains, struggle with the multi-faceted nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Do Xuan Long , Xingchen Wan , Hootan Nakhost , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister , Sercan Ö. Arık

Video generation models have shown strong potential as world models for autonomous driving simulation. However, existing approaches are primarily trained on real-world driving datasets, which mostly contain natural and safe driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Zhou , Zhenxin Zhu , Lingyi Du , Linye Lyu , Lijun Zhou , Zhanqian Wu , Hongcheng Luo , Zhuotao Tian , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Haiyang Sun , Yu Li

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

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

We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuang Wang , Chao Wen , Haoyu Guo , Sida Peng , Minghan Qin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou , Ruizhen Hu

Maintaining narrative coherence and visual consistency remains a central challenge in open-domain video generation. Existing text-to-video models often treat each shot independently, resulting in identity drift, scene inconsistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qinglin Zeng , Kaitong Cai , Ruiqi Chen , Qinhan Lv , Keze Wang

We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

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