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In the field of action recognition, video clips are always treated as ordered frames for subsequent processing. To achieve spatio-temporal perception, existing approaches propose to embed adjacent temporal interaction in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rongchang Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu

World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot control by modeling physical dynamics. Current WAMs generally follow two paradigms: the "Imagine-then-Execute" approach, which uses video prediction to infer actions…

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Action-conditioned video prediction models (often referred to as world models) have shown strong potential for robotics applications, but existing approaches are often slow and struggle to capture physically consistent interactions over…

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Robotic imitation learning has advanced from solving static tasks to addressing dynamic interaction scenarios, but testing and evaluation remain costly and challenging due to the need for real-time interaction with dynamic environments. We…

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

Embodied AI requires agents that perceive, act, and anticipate how actions reshape future world states. World models serve as internal simulators that capture environment dynamics, enabling forward and counterfactual rollouts to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinqing Li , Xin He , Le Zhang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Yun Liu

Large video models, pretrained on massive amounts of Internet video, provide a rich source of physical knowledge about the dynamics and motions of objects and tasks. However, video models are not grounded in the embodiment of an agent, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du

World models, which explicitly learn environmental dynamics to lay the foundation for planning, reasoning, and decision-making, are rapidly advancing in predicting both physical dynamics and aspects of social behavior, yet predominantly in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Chengdong Ma , Yizhe Huang , Weidong Huang , Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu , Xue Feng , Yaodong Yang

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

Dynamical systems theory and reinforcement learning view world evolution as latent-state dynamics driven by actions, with visual observations providing partial information about the state. Recent video world models attempt to learn this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhen Li , Zian Meng , Shuwei Shi , Wenshuo Peng , Yuwei Wu , Bo Zheng , Chuanhao Li , Kaipeng Zhang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved strong semantic generalization for embodied policy learning, yet they learn reactive observation-to-action mappings without explicitly modeling how the physical world evolves under…

This paper presents the World-Action Model (WAM), an action-regularized world model that jointly reasons over future visual observations and the actions that drive state transitions. Unlike conventional world models trained solely via image…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuci Han , Alper Yilmaz

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Accurate video understanding involves reasoning about the relationships between actors, objects and their environment, often over long temporal intervals. In this paper, we propose a message passing graph neural network that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

A defining characteristic of intelligent systems is the ability to make action decisions based on the anticipated outcomes. Video prediction systems have been demonstrated as a solution for predicting how the future will unfold visually,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Manuel Serra Nunes , Atabak Dehban , Plinio Moreno , José Santos-Victor

Analysis of human actions in videos demands understanding complex human dynamics, as well as the interaction between actors and context. However, these interaction relationships usually exhibit large intra-class variations from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhijun Zhang , Xu Zou , Jiahuan Zhou , Sheng Zhong , Ying Wu