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Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

Generative AI models, particularly Text-to-Video (T2V) systems, offer a promising avenue for transforming science education by automating the creation of engaging and intuitive visual explanations. In this work, we take a first step toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Megha Mariam K. M , Aditya Arun , Zakaria Laskar , C. V. Jawahar

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

We introduce [Cosmos-Predict2.5], the latest generation of the Cosmos World Foundation Models for Physical AI. Built on a flow-based architecture, [Cosmos-Predict2.5] unifies Text2World, Image2World, and Video2World generation in a single…

Large-scale pre-trained video generation models excel in content creation but are not reliable as physically accurate world simulators out of the box. This work studies the process of post-training these models for accurate world modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chenyu Li , Oscar Michel , Xichen Pan , Sainan Liu , Mike Roberts , Saining Xie

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

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

World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Boyuan Wang , Xinze Chen , Jiwen Lu

Recent advances in image and video generation raise hopes that these models possess world modeling capabilities, the ability to generate realistic, physically plausible videos. This could revolutionize applications in robotics, autonomous…

The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

Generating flexible-view 3D scenes, including 360{\deg} rotation and zooming, from single images is challenging due to a lack of 3D data. To this end, we introduce FlexWorld, a novel framework consisting of two key components: (1) a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luxi Chen , Zihan Zhou , Min Zhao , Yikai Wang , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen , Chongxuan Li

Video generative models have made remarkable progress, yet they often yield visual artifacts that violate grounding in physical dynamics. Recent works such as PhysGen3D tackle single image-to-3D physics through mesh reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hwidong Kim , Yunho Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

We introduce LivingWorld, an interactive framework for generating 4D worlds with environmental dynamics from a single image. While recent advances in 3D scene generation enable large-scale environment creation, most approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hyeongju Mun , In-Hwan Jin , Sohyeong Kim , Kyeongbo Kong

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 advancements in video generation have witnessed significant progress, especially with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Despite this, their deficiencies in physical cognition have gradually received widespread attention -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Minghui Lin , Xiang Wang , Yishan Wang , Shu Wang , Fengqi Dai , Pengxiang Ding , Cunxiang Wang , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Autonomous driving requires robust perception models trained on high-quality, large-scale multi-view driving videos for tasks like 3D object detection, segmentation and trajectory prediction. While world models provide a cost-effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhuoran Yang , Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Chiyu Wang , Wei Wu

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the creation of high-quality, visually compelling videos. However, generating videos that adhere to the laws of physics remains a critical challenge for applications requiring realism and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Harold Haodong Chen , Haojian Huang , Qifeng Chen , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

Robotic world models are a promising paradigm for forecasting future environment states, yet their inference speed and the physical plausibility of generated trajectories remain critical bottlenecks, limiting their real-world applications.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sibo Li , Qianyue Hao , Yu Shang , Yong Li

We present PanoWorld, a panoramic video world model that generates geometry-consistent 360$\degree$ video from a single image and a caption. Existing panoramic video methods optimize primarily for visual realism and do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Le Jiang , Xiangyu Bai , Bishoy Galoaa , Shayda Moezzi , Caleb James Lee , Tooba Imtiaz , Edmund Yeh , Jennifer Dy , Yanzhi Wang , Sarah Ostadabbas