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Reconstructing 3D scenes from a single image is a fundamentally ill-posed task due to the severely under-constrained nature of the problem. Consequently, when the scene is rendered from novel camera views, existing single image to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Sarosij Bose , Arindam Dutta , Sayak Nag , Junge Zhang , Jiachen Li , Konstantinos Karydis , Amit K. Roy Chowdhury

High-quality 3D assets for traffic participants are critical for multi-sensor simulation, which is essential for the safe end-to-end development of autonomy. Building assets from in-the-wild data is key for diversity and realism, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ze Yang , Jingkang Wang , Haowei Zhang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Yun Chen , Raquel Urtasun

We introduce a novel method for dynamic free-view synthesis of an ambient scenes from a monocular capture bringing a immersive quality to the viewing experience. Our method builds upon the recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Meng-Li Shih , Jia-Bin Huang , Changil Kim , Rajvi Shah , Johannes Kopf , Chen Gao

Building world models that accurately and comprehensively represent the real world is the utmost aspiration for conditional image generative models as it would enable their use as world simulators. For these models to be successful world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pietro Astolfi , Marlene Careil , Melissa Hall , Oscar Mañas , Matthew Muckley , Jakob Verbeek , Adriana Romero Soriano , Michal Drozdzal

Generating explorable 3D scenes from a single image is a highly challenging problem in 3D vision. Existing methods struggle to support free exploration, often producing severe geometric distortions and noisy artifacts when the viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengfei Wang , Liyi Chen , Zhiyuan Ma , Yanjun Guo , Guowen Zhang , Lei Zhang

World building with 3D scene representations is increasingly important for content creation, simulation, and interactive experiences, yet real workflows are inherently iterative: creators must repeatedly extend an existing scene under user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zijian He , Renjie Liu , Yihao Wang , Weizhi Zhong , Huan Yuan , Kun Gai , Guangrun Wang , Guanbin Li

A recent frontier in computer vision has been the task of 3D video generation, which consists of generating a time-varying 3D representation of a scene. To generate dynamic 3D scenes, current methods explicitly model 3D temporal dynamics by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Rishab Parthasarathy , Zachary Ankner , Aaron Gokaslan

We propose FlashWorld, a generative model that produces 3D scenes from a single image or text prompt in seconds, 10~100$\times$ faster than previous works while possessing superior rendering quality. Our approach shifts from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinyang Li , Tengfei Wang , Zixiao Gu , Shengchuan Zhang , Chunchao Guo , Liujuan Cao

We introduce a method to synthesize animator guided human motion across 3D scenes. Given a set of sparse (3 or 4) joint locations (such as the location of a person's hand and two feet) and a seed motion sequence in a 3D scene, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Aymen Mir , Xavier Puig , Angjoo Kanazawa , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this paper we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first method to learn a generative model of 3D shapes from natural images in a fully unsupervised way. For example, we do not use any ground truth 3D or 2D annotations, stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Attila Szabó , Givi Meishvili , Paolo Favaro

Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yida Wang , Weihong Deng

Generative models have shown substantial impact across multiple domains, their potential for scene synthesis remains underexplored in robotics. This gap is more evident in drone simulators, where simulation environments still rely heavily…

Large image diffusion models enable novel view synthesis with high quality and excellent zero-shot capability. However, such models based on image-to-image translation have no guarantee of view consistency, limiting the performance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haohan Weng , Tianyu Yang , Jianan Wang , Yu Li , Tong Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen , Lei Zhang

State-of-the-art novel view synthesis methods achieve impressive results for multi-view captures of static 3D scenes. However, the reconstructed scenes still lack "liveliness," a key component for creating engaging 3D experiences. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thomas Wimmer , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Federico Tombari

We present LidarDM, a novel LiDAR generative model capable of producing realistic, layout-aware, physically plausible, and temporally coherent LiDAR videos. LidarDM stands out with two unprecedented capabilities in LiDAR generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vlas Zyrianov , Henry Che , Zhijian Liu , Shenlong Wang

A generative recurrent neural network is quickly trained in an unsupervised manner to model popular reinforcement learning environments through compressed spatio-temporal representations. The world model's extracted features are fed into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

We present a method that simultaneously addresses the tasks of dynamic scene novel-view synthesis and six degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) tracking of all dense scene elements. We follow an analysis-by-synthesis framework, inspired by recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jonathon Luiten , Georgios Kopanas , Bastian Leibe , Deva Ramanan

Acquiring detailed 3D scenes typically demands costly equipment, multi-view data, or labor-intensive modeling. Therefore, a lightweight alternative, generating complex 3D scenes from a single top-down image, plays an essential role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kaizhi Zheng , Ruijian Zha , Zishuo Xu , Jing Gu , Jie Yang , Xin Eric Wang

The increasing demand for virtual reality applications has highlighted the significance of crafting immersive 3D assets. We present a text-to-3D 360$^{\circ}$ scene generation pipeline that facilitates the creation of comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shijie Zhou , Zhiwen Fan , Dejia Xu , Haoran Chang , Pradyumna Chari , Tejas Bharadwaj , Suya You , Zhangyang Wang , Achuta Kadambi

We introduce SceneDiffuser, a conditional generative model for 3D scene understanding. SceneDiffuser provides a unified model for solving scene-conditioned generation, optimization, and planning. In contrast to prior works, SceneDiffuser is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Huang , Zan Wang , Puhao Li , Baoxiong Jia , Tengyu Liu , Yixin Zhu , Wei Liang , Song-Chun Zhu