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We propose a set of precise criteria for saying a neural net learns and uses a "world model." The goal is to give an operational meaning to terms that are often used informally, in order to provide a common language for experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Kenneth Li , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Traditional path-planning techniques treat humans as obstacles. This has changed since robots started to enter human environments. On modern robots, social navigation has become an important aspect of navigation systems. To use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yigit Yildirim , Emre Ugur

Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to replicate some of these abilities with a neural network that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Nick Haber , Damian Mrowca , Li Fei-Fei , Daniel L. K. Yamins

In recent years, the interdisciplinary research between information science and neuroscience has been a hotspot. In this paper, based on recent biological findings, we proposed a new model to mimic visual information processing, motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Wei Wu , Hong Qiao , Jiahao Chen , Peijie Yin , Yinlin Li

The rapid progress in embodied artificial intelligence has highlighted the necessity for more advanced and integrated models that can perceive, interpret, and predict environmental dynamics. In this context, World Models (WMs) have been…

Driving World Models (DWMs) have become essential for autonomous driving by enabling future scene prediction. However, existing DWMs are limited to scene generation and fail to incorporate scene understanding, which involves interpreting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Sifan Tu , Xiwu Chen , Yikang Ding , Dingyuan Zhang , Feiyang Tan , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiang Bai

We present a novel deep learning architecture for probabilistic future prediction from video. We predict the future semantics, geometry and motion of complex real-world urban scenes and use this representation to control an autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Anthony Hu , Fergal Cotter , Nikhil Mohan , Corina Gurau , Alex Kendall

For human drivers, having rear and side-view mirrors is vital for safe driving. They deliver a more complete view of what is happening around the car. Human drivers also heavily exploit their mental map for navigation. Nonetheless, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Simon Hecker , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Autonomous driving requires reasoning about how the environment evolves and planning actions accordingly. Existing world-model-based approaches typically predict future scenes first and plan afterwards, resulting in open-loop imagination…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiqi Liu , Huan Xu , Jingyu Li , Bin Sun , Zhihui Hao , Dangen She , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Model-based control is a popular paradigm for robot navigation because it can leverage a known dynamics model to efficiently plan robust robot trajectories. However, it is challenging to use model-based methods in settings where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Somil Bansal , Varun Tolani , Saurabh Gupta , Jitendra Malik , Claire Tomlin

Current end-to-end autonomous driving planners are fundamentally reactive: they condition on historical and present observations to predict future actions. We argue that autonomous agents should instead imagine future scenes before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Yuang Wang , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Humans construct internal cognitive maps of their environment directly from sensory inputs without access to a system of explicit coordinates or distance measurements. While machine learning algorithms like SLAM utilize specialized visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-19 James Gornet , Matthew Thomson

In recent years, deep generative models have gained significance due to their ability to synthesize natural-looking images with applications ranging from virtual reality to data augmentation for training computer vision models. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Paul Sanzenbacher , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger

Modern computer vision has moved beyond the domain of internet photo collections and into the physical world, guiding camera-equipped robots and autonomous cars through unstructured environments. To enable these embodied agents to interact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Igor Vasiljevic

Most state-of-the-art works in trajectory forecasting for automotive target predicting the pose and orientation of the agents in the scene. This represents a particularly useful problem, for instance in autonomous driving, but it does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Luca Paparusso , Stefano Melzi , Francesco Braghin

A world model is essential for an agent to predict the future and plan in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. To achieve this, recent advancements have focused on video generation, which has gained significant attention due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Youngjoon Jeong , Junha Chun , Soonwoo Cha , Taesup Kim

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

This research aims to explore the application of deep learning in autonomous driving computer vision technology and its impact on improving system performance. By using advanced technologies such as convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingyu Zhang , Jin Cao , Jinghao Chang , Xinjin Li , Houze Liu , Zhenglin Li

Inspired by animal navigation strategies, we introduce a novel computational model to navigate and map a space rooted in biologically inspired principles. Animals exhibit extraordinary navigation prowess, harnessing memory, imagination, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Daria de Tinguy , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt