arXiv:2606. 00115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bridging the gap between visual realism and physical understanding is a core challenge for video-based world models.
By Yuanyuan Wang, Wenjie Wang, Kun Zhang, Mingming Gong
arXiv:2606. 09842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applying Human Pose Estimation (HPE) in real world environments remains a challenging task, this paper explores and surveys real time HPE approaches and their limitations in sports analysis for individuals, alongside developing a practical lightweight prototype for real world testing and usage.
By Parth Agrawal, Ronit, Sagar Kumar, Aashish Bhambri
arXiv:2608. 15555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video models are increasingly used to predict what happens next in a scene, yet the metrics commonly used to compare their outputs say little about whether the predicted objects move correctly.
By Swarnim Jain, Shangzhe Wu
arXiv:2608. 05948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions.
By Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang, Shihan Tian, Ningyu Yan, Xing Shen, Chaoyang Lyu, Hui Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Hanqing Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yang Xiang, Xing Gao, Chunhua Shen, Weinan Zhang
arXiv:2606. 18861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing simulation-ready digital twins of articulated objects from sensor observations remains constrained by two persistent gaps: (i) part-level geometric reconstruction is decoupled from kinematic-parameter estimation, and (ii) the recovered models often violate basic dynamic invariants such as energy conservation, leading to drift when the URDF is replayed in physics simulators.
By Xinze Zhang
Quantitative joint angles are rarely available in routine care because the tools are slow, costly, or confined to a laboratory. We show that clinical joint angles can be read directly from the per-segment rotation matrices a parametric body model already produces, with no inverse-kinematics or musculoskeletal-model fitting step.
arXiv:2606. 02301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chronic pain diminishes quality of life by decreasing functional ability, yet objectively measuring this functional impact remains challenging in real-world settings.
By Pranav Mahajan, Amanda Wall, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Julie Stebbins, Eoin Kelleher, Shuangyi Tong, Annina Schmid, Katja Wiech, Anushka Irani, Ben Seymour
Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions. However, existing evaluations of physical fidelity are often conducted in isolation and rely heavily on perceptual similarity or human judgments, providing limited insight into which physical principles or parameters are violated.
arXiv:2606. 19372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Full-Self Diagnostics (FSD), a unified mathematical framework for recovering latent physiological states from unconstrained 9-second facial videos captured by consumer smartphones.
By Jonathan Thomas, Harsh Thaker
arXiv:2606. 04708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) enables scalable real-world robot data collection without hardware-specific teleoperation, yet leveraging UMI data to train large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains fundamentally challenging.
By Siyuan Yang, Linzheng Guo, Ouyang Lu, Zhaxizhuoma, Daoran Zhang, Xinmiao Wang, Ting Xiao, Fangzheng Yan, Zhijun Chen, Yan Ding, Chao Yu, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2606. 02301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chronic pain diminishes quality of life by decreasing functional ability, yet objectively measuring this functional impact remains challenging in real-world settings.
By Pranav Mahajan, Amanda Wall, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Julie Stebbins, Eoin Kelleher, Shuangyi Tong, Annina Schmid, Katja Wiech, Anushka Irani, Ben Seymour
Despite rapid progress in interactive world models (IWMs), existing benchmarks evaluate action following only at trajectory level and ignore memory and interaction physics. We introduce WorldOdysseyBench, an open-world benchmark for long-horizon stability across four dimensions, each with tailored innovations: (i) Action: per-frame action metric bypassing cross-model semantic scale disparity and exposing failures hidden by trajectory; (ii) Vision: segment-based drift metric capturing non-monotonic mid-sequence collapse missed by start-vs-end comparisons; (iii) Physics: controllability-gated evaluation over mechanics, optics, and 3D consistency, scoring plausibility under faithful action execution; (iv) Memory: action-decoupled protocol evaluating scene memory via transition-localized 3D point-cloud reconstruction and subject memory via tracking-plus-VLM reasoning.