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9 papers

cs.CV2026

PAWA: Panoramic Action-conditioned World Modeling for Multiple Agents

Siqi Yang, Yimu Wang, Ziqi Cai +6

A multiplayer world model must predict how the independent actions of several players change a shared environment, including changes outside a player's current field of view. A poi…

cs.SD2026

StreamAV-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Streaming Audio-Video Generation

Kaiqi Liu, Haoxuan Zeng, Jingqi Liu +7

Recent advancements in generative models are pushing video generation toward unbounded streaming audio-video generation for real-time interactive worlds. However, existing benchmar…

cs.CV2026

MASS: Multiplayer World Models with Authoritative Shared State

Ziqi Cai, Siqi Yang, Yimu Wang +6

Current video world models struggle in multiplayer environments because they entangle world state with view-dependent visual latents, leading to redundant compute, view inconsisten…

cs.CV2026

MAVIN: Multi-Shot Audio-Visual Generation with Customized Narrative Control

Kaiqi Liu, Yunyao Mao, Ziqi Cai +8

While recent generative models produce high-fidelity videos, they struggle with the complex narrative control required for coherent multi-shot audio-visual generation. Existing met…

cs.CV2026

Video Generation Models Are Inherent Lighting Estimators

Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Kaiqi Liu +5

Recovering dynamic environment maps from a single in-the-wild video is crucial for photorealistic rendering, yet remains a challenge. Recent video generation models can produce pho…

cs.CV2026

ReContraster: Making Your Posters Stand Out with Regional Contrast

Peixuan Zhang, Zijian Jia, Ziqi Cai +3

Effective poster design requires rapidly capturing attention and clearly conveying messages. Inspired by the ``contrast effects'' principle, we propose ReContraster, the first trai…

cs.CV2026

Lighting-grounded Video Generation with Renderer-based Agent Reasoning

Ziqi Cai, Taoyu Yang, Zheng Chang +4

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in video generation, but their controllability remains a major limitation. Key scene factors such as layout, lighting, and camera…

cs.CV2024

DreamPolish: Domain Score Distillation With Progressive Geometry Generation

Yean Cheng, Ziqi Cai, Ming Ding +5

We introduce DreamPolish, a text-to-3D generation model that excels in producing refined geometry and high-quality textures. In the geometry construction phase, our approach levera…

cs.CV2024

Real-time 3D-aware Portrait Video Relighting

Ziqi Cai, Kaiwen Jiang, Shu-Yu Chen +4

Synthesizing realistic videos of talking faces under custom lighting conditions and viewing angles benefits various downstream applications like video conferencing. However, most e…