World Action Models (WAMs) are able to leverage pretrained video generators for both world modeling and action prediction. However, directly leveraging such video generators for control raises a new challenge: how to represent actions in a suitable form that aligns with pretrained video generators while carrying enough motion cues for accurate control.
arXiv:2608.20770v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern AI video generation models can produce videos with high visual fidelity and seemingly smooth temporal transitions. However, visual realism does...
By Haojin He, Hao Tan, Zichang Tan, Ajian Liu, Jun Wan
arXiv:2607. 25321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video diffusion models generate visually compelling content but routinely violate elementary physics when the subject involves fluids: liquid columns break apart in mid-air, container water levels fail to rise as liquid is poured in, and splashes disperse without regard to momentum or gravity.
By Ruijie Su, Yuanzhi Liang, Xiaohua Xie, Jianhuang Lai
The paper introduces a biologically inspired framework that learns object‑centric visual representations from raw videos without human annotations or camera calibration. By using motion boundaries detected via optical flow and clustering to create pseudo‑instance masks, the method supervises a single‑image encoder with pixel‑level pairwise metric learning. Training on 195 million pseudo‑labeled frames and expanding to 421 million frames through Motion‑Verified Self‑Training, the approach yields Swin‑based encoders that outperform or match supervised and self‑supervised baselines on tasks such as monocular depth estimation, 3D object detection, 3D occupancy prediction, and end‑to‑end planning.
By Boshi Li, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaoyang Wu, Zhichao Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang
The paper introduces Driving with DINO (DwD), a framework that uses Vision Foundation Module (VFM) features to bridge simulation and real-world domains for autonomous driving video generation. It addresses the consistency‑realism dilemma by projecting VFM features onto a principal subspace, dropping high‑frequency texture elements, and applying a Random Channel Tail Drop to preserve structural detail. Additional components— a learnable Spatial Alignment Module and a Causal Temporal Aggregator— enhance control precision, spatial alignment, and temporal stability, reducing motion blur and ensuring realistic, consistent outputs.
By Xuyang Chen, Conglang Zhang, Chuanheng Fu, Zihao Yang, Kaixuan Zhou, Yizhi Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Mingwei Sun, Zhen Dong, Xiaoxiao Long, Zengmao Wang, Liqiu Meng
arXiv:2510.24904v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Although recent video generative models are getting more capable of following external camera controls, imposed by either text descriptions or came...
By Qiucheng Wu, Handong Zhao, Zhixin Shu, Jing Shi, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Chang
arXiv:2608. 10544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration is fundamentally constrained by the tradeoff between distortion and perception: minimizing pixel-wise error yields over-smoothed results, whereas optimizing for perceptual realism often introduces structural deviations.
By Sangwoo Jo, Donggeun Ko, Jayeon Kang, Youngsang Kwak, Jaehwa Kwak, Sungjoon Choi
arXiv:2609.01551v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised video foundation models learn rich spatiotemporal representations, yet it remains unclear what visual concepts these representations en...
By Sharon S. Musa, Fereshteh Forghani, Harrish Thasarathan, Sonia Joseph, Matthew Kowal, Konstantinos G. Derpanis
arXiv:2607.14935v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in video understanding have spanned motion, long video, and streaming interaction, driving this field toward real-world application...
By Xinhao Li, Yuhan Zhu, Xiangyu Zeng, Yuhao Dong, Haoning Wu, Zhiqiu Zhang, Yuandong Yang, Changlian Ma, Qingyu Zhang, Yansong Shi, Xinyu Chen, Haoran Chen, Zizheng Huang, Jun Zhang, Kun Ouyang, Lin Sui, Ziang Yan, Yicheng Xu, Chenting Wang, Yinan He, Hongjie Zhang, Yi Wang, Yu Qiao, Yali Wang, Ziwei Liu, Kai Chen, Limin Wang
Camera intrinsics are vital for recovering 3D structure from 2D video. However, most 3D algorithms assume fixed intrinsics throughout a video, an assumption that often fails for real-world in-the-wild videos.
arXiv:2608.31025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inferring object dynamics from visual observations is essential for intelligent agents to reason about and interact with the physical world, yet remain...
By Jailing Lin, Jikuan Zhang, Jianhua Sun
arXiv:2608. 08553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video super-resolution (VSR) aims to recover high-fidelity high-resolution videos from low-resolution inputs and is central to applications ranging from mobile capture to streaming and archival restoration.
By Rong Fu, Chunlei Meng, Yangchen Zeng, Xiaowen Ma, Yongtai Liu, Wangyu Wu, Shuo Yin, Zijian Zhang, Sicheng Li, Yingrui Ji, Chenhao Wang, Simon Fong