PhysWorld: From Real Videos to World Models of Deformable Objects via Physics-Aware Demonstration Synthesis

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Main Authors: Yang, Yu, Zhang, Zhilu, Zhang, Xiang, Zeng, Yihan, Li, Hui, Zuo, Wangmeng
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author Yang, Yu
Zhang, Zhilu
Zhang, Xiang
Zeng, Yihan
Li, Hui
Zuo, Wangmeng
author_facet Yang, Yu
Zhang, Zhilu
Zhang, Xiang
Zeng, Yihan
Li, Hui
Zuo, Wangmeng
contents Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for deformable objects with spatially-varying physical properties. To overcome the challenge of data scarcity, we propose PhysWorld, a novel framework that utilizes a simulator to synthesize physically plausible and diverse demonstrations to learn efficient world models. Specifically, we first construct a physics-consistent digital twin within MPM simulator via constitutive model selection and global-to-local optimization of physical properties. Subsequently, we apply part-aware perturbations to the physical properties and generate various motion patterns for the digital twin, synthesizing extensive and diverse demonstrations. Finally, using these demonstrations, we train a lightweight GNN-based world model that is embedded with physical properties. The real video can be used to further refine the physical properties. PhysWorld achieves accurate and fast future predictions for various deformable objects, and also generalizes well to novel interactions. Experiments show that PhysWorld has competitive performance while enabling inference speeds 47 times faster than the recent state-of-the-art method, i.e., PhysTwin.
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spellingShingle PhysWorld: From Real Videos to World Models of Deformable Objects via Physics-Aware Demonstration Synthesis
Yang, Yu
Zhang, Zhilu
Zhang, Xiang
Zeng, Yihan
Li, Hui
Zuo, Wangmeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for deformable objects with spatially-varying physical properties. To overcome the challenge of data scarcity, we propose PhysWorld, a novel framework that utilizes a simulator to synthesize physically plausible and diverse demonstrations to learn efficient world models. Specifically, we first construct a physics-consistent digital twin within MPM simulator via constitutive model selection and global-to-local optimization of physical properties. Subsequently, we apply part-aware perturbations to the physical properties and generate various motion patterns for the digital twin, synthesizing extensive and diverse demonstrations. Finally, using these demonstrations, we train a lightweight GNN-based world model that is embedded with physical properties. The real video can be used to further refine the physical properties. PhysWorld achieves accurate and fast future predictions for various deformable objects, and also generalizes well to novel interactions. Experiments show that PhysWorld has competitive performance while enabling inference speeds 47 times faster than the recent state-of-the-art method, i.e., PhysTwin.
title PhysWorld: From Real Videos to World Models of Deformable Objects via Physics-Aware Demonstration Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21447