Recent advances in image-to-video generation have improved visual realism, making physically grounded and controllable dynamics an important step toward future world simulation. Current models often generate plausible motion, but it is not reliably governed by explicit physical causes, and instance-level constraints can leak or become entangled in multi-object interactions.
4D generation synthesizes dynamic 3D scenes from conditions such as text or images. Existing methods either reconstruct generated RGB videos with a separate 4D model or adapt a particular video generator to predict geometry directly.
arXiv:2606. 28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation.
By Peiwen Zhang, Yufan Deng, Shangkun Sun, Juncheng Ma, Duomin Wang, Jonas Du, Zilin Pan, Ye Huang, Hao Liang, Songyan Huang, Ruihua Zhang, Enze Xie, Ming-Yu Liu, Daquan Zhou
Real-world spatial intelligence requires agents to understand scenes from continuous video streams, where objects move, persist, disappear, and reappear over time. While recent spatial foundation models have enabled generalizable feed-forward 3D reconstruction, most streaming methods remain geometry-centric and lack temporally consistent object-level understanding.
arXiv:2604. 09877v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: At the intersection of computer vision and robotic perception, 4D reconstruction of dynamic scenes connects low-level geometric sensing with high-level semantic understanding.
By Yiru Yang, Zhuojie Wu, Nishant Kumar Singh, Max Schulthess
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