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20192026
most citedUnifying (Machine) Vision via Counterfactual World Modeling

9 citations · 14 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.geo-ph2026

GeoVolDiff: Taming 3D Geological Volumes with Latent Diffusion

Qi Pang, Hongling Chen, Jinghuai Gao

Deep learning has become a prevailing paradigm across a wide range of geophysical applications. Yet most existing studies concentrate on methodological refinements -- novel network…

cs.CV2026

Physical Object Understanding with a Physically Controllable World Model

Rahul Venkatesh, Klemen Kotar, Lilian Naing Chen +9

A central challenge in visual intelligence is learning the physical structure of scenes from raw videos: how regions form objects and the laws that govern their interactions. Solvi…

cs.CV2026

Unified 3D Scene Understanding Through Physical World Modeling

Wanhee Lee, Klemen Kotar, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh +4

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essent…

cs.RO2026

Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models

Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai

World action models jointly predict future video and action during training, raising an open question about what role the future-prediction branch actually plays. A recent finding…

cs.CV2026

Memory-Efficient Transfer Learning with Fading Side Networks via Masked Dual Path Distillation

Yutong Zhang, Jiaxin Chen, Honglin Chen +5

Memory-efficient transfer learning (METL) approaches have recently achieved promising performance in adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks. They avoid applying gradient b…

cs.CV2025

World Modeling with Probabilistic Structure Integration

Klemen Kotar, Wanhee Lee, Rahul Venkatesh +13

We present Probabilistic Structure Integration (PSI), a system for learning richly controllable and flexibly promptable world models from data. PSI consists of a three-step cycle.…

cs.CV2025

Discovering and using Spelke segments

Rahul Venkatesh, Klemen Kotar, Lilian Naing Chen +10

Segments in computer vision are often defined by semantic considerations and are highly dependent on category-specific conventions. In contrast, developmental psychology suggests t…

cs.CV2025

3D Scene Understanding Through Local Random Access Sequence Modeling

Wanhee Lee, Klemen Kotar, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh +4

3D scene understanding from single images is a pivotal problem in computer vision with numerous downstream applications in graphics, augmented reality, and robotics. While diffusio…

cs.CV2023

Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling

Rahul Venkatesh, Honglin Chen, Kevin Feigelis +9

The ability to understand physical dynamics is critical for agents to act in the world. Here, we use Counterfactual World Modeling (CWM) to extract vision structures for dynamics u…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Unifying (Machine) Vision via Counterfactual World Modeling

Daniel M. Bear, Kevin Feigelis, Honglin Chen +5

Leading approaches in machine vision employ different architectures for different tasks, trained on costly task-specific labeled datasets. This complexity has held back progress in…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Unsupervised Segmentation in Real-World Images via Spelke Object Inference

Honglin Chen, Rahul Venkatesh, Yoni Friedman +4

Self-supervised, category-agnostic segmentation of real-world images is a challenging open problem in computer vision. Here, we show how to learn static grouping priors from motion…

eess.IV2019★ 2 cited

Semi-Supervised First-Person Activity Recognition in Body-Worn Video

Honglin Chen, Hao Li, Alexander Song +6

Body-worn cameras are now commonly used for logging daily life, sports, and law enforcement activities, creating a large volume of archived footage. This paper studies the problem…