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UFO: Unifying Feed-Forward and Optimization-based Methods for Large Driving Scene Modeling

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-25 v1

Abstract

Dynamic driving scene reconstruction is critical for autonomous driving simulation and closed-loop learning. While recent feed-forward methods have shown promise for 3D reconstruction, they struggle with long-range driving sequences due to quadratic complexity in sequence length and challenges in modeling dynamic objects over extended durations. We propose UFO, a novel recurrent paradigm that combines the benefits of optimization-based and feed-forward methods for efficient long-range 4D reconstruction. Our approach maintains a 4D scene representation that is iteratively refined as new observations arrive, using a visibility-based filtering mechanism to select informative scene tokens and enable efficient processing of long sequences. For dynamic objects, we introduce an object pose-guided modeling approach that supports accurate long-range motion capture. Experiments on the Waymo Open Dataset demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms both per-scene optimization and existing feed-forward methods across various sequence lengths. Notably, our approach can reconstruct 16-second driving logs within 0.5 second while maintaining superior visual quality and geometric accuracy.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.20943,
  title  = {UFO: Unifying Feed-Forward and Optimization-based Methods for Large Driving Scene Modeling},
  author = {Kaiyuan Tan and Yingying Shen and Mingfei Tu and Haohui Zhu and Bing Wang and Guang Chen and Hangjun Ye and Haiyang Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20943},
  year   = {2026}
}
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