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UniMUG 2027
First Workshop on Visual Storytelling with Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
UniMUG 2027 is the first workshop on Visual Storytelling with Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation, held in conjunction with WACV 2027. It aims to bridge the gap between video understanding and generation by exploring shared latent representations and cross-leveraging capabilities to advance both domains through joint research and evaluation.
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Research areas in scope
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Joint Understanding & Generation
Novel architectures for unified multimodal understanding and generationShared latent representations across understanding and generation tasksMulti-task learning frameworks bridging perception and synthesisMethods to train unified models for joint understanding and generation
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Generation-Enhanced Understanding
Leveraging generative priors for improved video comprehensionWorld models for video reasoning and predictionGenerative pre-training for downstream understanding tasks
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Understanding-Enhanced Generation
Incorporating semantic understanding signals into video generationControllable generation through scene understandingConsistency enforcement via understanding modules
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Efficiency & Scalability
Teacher-student knowledge distillation from expert modelsEfficient unified architectures for resource-constrained deploymentModel compression techniques for joint understanding-generation models
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Evaluation & Benchmarks
Novel metrics for unified model assessmentBenchmark datasets for joint understanding and generationHuman evaluation methodologies
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Applications
Long-form video storytelling and narrative generationInteractive video content creationVideo summarization and recap generationMulti-modal generation and understandingCross-modal alignment
Policies worth checking twice
- Double-blind review
- Supplementary Materials: Optional additional materials permitted
- Dual Submission Policy: To be specified based on WACV 2027 guidelines
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Last verified September 8, 2026