arXiv Computer Vision

Which Way Did It Move? Diagnosing and Overcoming Directional Motion Blindness in Video-LLMs

The paper identifies a new failure mode in Video Large Language Models (Video‑LLMs) called directional motion blindness, where models struggle to correctly interpret basic signed image‑plane motion directions. By tracing motion signals through the model pipeline, the authors reveal a binding gap between motion information and verbal output, and propose MoDirect, a motion‑direction instruction‑tuning dataset, and DeltaDirect, a projector‑level objective that predicts 2‑D motion vectors from frame deltas. Experiments show that DeltaDirect dramatically boosts motion‑direction accuracy on both synthetic and real‑world benchmarks while maintaining overall video‑understanding performance.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

MotionBlind: Probing the Illusion of Motion Understanding in Video-LLMs

arXiv:2609.09528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video large language models (Video-LLMs) are increasingly used as the perceptual front end of world models, a role that assumes they can read motion: h...

By Dhairya Bhatia, Bishoy Galoaa, Oliver Fritsche, Shahid Kamal, Muhammad Obaidullah Abdul Salam, Umer Saleem, Om Rastogi, Frania Felix Chettiar, Nesli Erdogmus, Sarah Ostadabbas
arXiv AI
Jun 30

MotionAtlas: Detailed Region Captioning for Motion-Centric Videos

arXiv:2606. 29531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose MotionAtlas, a system for detailed captioning of motion-centric videos, comprising (1) a dedicated human-annotated benchmark, (2) a scalable, high-quality pipeline to construct training samples, and (3) a family of powerful Video-MLLMs.

By Weisong Liu, Haochen Wang, Kuan Gao, Yuhao Wang, Yikang Zhou, Zhongwei Ren, Jacky Mai, Anna Wang, Yanwei Li, Jason Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Act with Intent: Distilling Behavior Intent for Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces Intention Distillation (INDI), a method that injects behavior-level intent into Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) model decoders by leveraging a frozen teacher vision‑language model to interpret demonstrations. During training, the teacher processes the current observation, instruction, coarse action summary, and execution video, producing a multimodal intent representation that the VLA decoder uses alongside trajectory and execution features to predict actions. Experiments on SimplerEnv‑Bridge, RoboCasa Kitchen, and real‑world tasks show that INDI consistently improves success rates, especially on longer‑horizon tasks, demonstrating that explicit modeling of semantic intent benefits action decoders.

By Sangoh Lee, Sangwoo Mo, Wook-Shin Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

Disentangling Spurious Correlations in Vision-Language-Action Models via Predicting Domain-Invariant Latent Lookahead

arXiv:2609.37165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle under visual distribution shifts, often relying on spurious correlations tied to domain-specific f...

By Junghyun Kim, Ngseo Kim, ChungWoo Lee, Seoyeon Lee, Woo-Jeong Baek, Adam Zhou, Chip Huyen, Jun-Ki Lee, Gi-Cheon Kang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

WorldForge V2: Eliciting Camera-Trajectory Alignment in Video Diffusion Models

WorldForge V2 introduces a training‑free guidance framework that refines video diffusion outputs along a target camera path using warped references and optical‑flow‑identified latent channels for selective guidance. It employs a dual‑path strategy to correct artifacts, a v‑cache to reduce refinement cost, and Trajectory LoRA adapters trained in two stages to focus on trajectory‑responsive network blocks. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art generation quality and trajectory accuracy with minimal training data, enabling reliable camera control across unseen scenes.

By Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Tong Zhao, Ruibo Li, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Chi Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 3

CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

arXiv:2607. 02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored.

By Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao