7 papers
Alpha as an Efficiency Signal: Visibility-Routed RGBA Image-to-Video Generation
Zhe Li, Honghao Qiao, Zhixin Xu +3
RGBA videos combine RGB appearance with an alpha channel, enabling animated assets to be applied across arbitrary backgrounds, which are heavily used in gaming industry. However, g…
Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling
Keming Wu, Zuhao Yang, Kaichen Zhang +24
Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning…
WorldReasonBench: Human-Aligned Stress Testing of Video Generators as Future World-State Predictors
Keming Wu, Yijing Cui, Wenhan Xue +11
Commercial video generation systems such as Seedance2.0 and Veo3.1 have rapidly improved, strengthening the view that video generators may be evolving into "world simulators." Yet…
Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
Zhiyuan Feng, Zhaolu Kang, Qijie Wang +16
Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent V…
Friction-Aware Safety Locomotion for Wheeled-legged Robots using Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning
Bo Peng, Donghoon Baek, Qijie Wang +1
Controlling Wheeled-legged robots is challenging especially on slippery surfaces due to their dependence on continuous ground contact. Unlike quadrupeds or bipeds, which can levera…
Accelerating Diffusion-based Super-Resolution with Dynamic Time-Spatial Sampling
Rui Qin, Qijie Wang, Ming Sun +3
Diffusion models have gained attention for their success in modeling complex distributions, achieving impressive perceptual quality in SR tasks. However, existing diffusion-based S…