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Realistic simulators are critical for training and verifying robotics systems. While most of the contemporary simulators are hand-crafted, a scaleable way to build simulators is to use machine learning to learn how the environment behaves…

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Cinematic video production requires control over scene-subject composition and camera movement, but live-action shooting remains costly due to the need for constructing physical sets. To address this, we introduce the task of cinematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Kaiyi Huang , Yukun Huang , Yu Li , Jianhong Bai , Xintao Wang , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Jiwen Yu , Pengfei Wan , Yu Wang , Xihui Liu

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

4D driving simulation is essential for developing realistic autonomous driving simulators. Despite advancements in existing methods for generating driving scenes, significant challenges remain in view transformation and spatial-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Lening Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Dalong Du , Yunpeng Zhang , Yilong Ren , Han Jiang , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu , Shanghang Zhang

Scene text detection techniques have garnered significant attention due to their wide-ranging applications. However, existing methods have a high demand for training data, and obtaining accurate human annotations is labor-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ling Fu , Zijie Wu , Yingying Zhu , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Safely interacting with humans is a significant challenge for autonomous driving. The performance of this interaction depends on machine learning-based modules of an autopilot, such as perception, behavior prediction, and planning. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jay Shenoy , Edward Kim , Xiangyu Yue , Taesung Park , Daniel Fremont , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Sanjit Seshia

This paper uses a graphic engine to simulate a large amount of training data with free annotations. Between synthetic and real data, there is a two-level domain gap, i.e., content level and appearance level. While the latter has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yue Yao , Liang Zheng , Xiaodong Yang , Milind Naphade , Tom Gedeon

The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

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

Training computer vision models usually requires collecting and labeling vast amounts of imagery under a diverse set of scene configurations and properties. This process is incredibly time-consuming, and it is challenging to ensure that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yunhao Ge , Harkirat Behl , Jiashu Xu , Suriya Gunasekar , Neel Joshi , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet

Autonomous vehicle safety is crucial for the successful deployment of self-driving cars. However, most existing planning methods rely heavily on imitation learning, which limits their ability to leverage collision data effectively.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zi Wang , Shiyi Lan , Xinglong Sun , Nadine Chang , Zhenxin Li , Zhiding Yu , Jose M. Alvarez

Preparing training data for deep vision models is a labor-intensive task. To address this, generative models have emerged as an effective solution for generating synthetic data. While current generative models produce image-level category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Safety-critical scenarios are infrequent in natural driving environments but hold significant importance for the training and testing of autonomous driving systems. The prevailing approach involves generating safety-critical scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yuting Xie , Xianda Guo , Cong Wang , Kunhua Liu , Long Chen

Video generation models have shown strong potential as world models for autonomous driving simulation. However, existing approaches are primarily trained on real-world driving datasets, which mostly contain natural and safe driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Zhou , Zhenxin Zhu , Lingyi Du , Linye Lyu , Lijun Zhou , Zhanqian Wu , Hongcheng Luo , Zhuotao Tian , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Haiyang Sun , Yu Li

The generation of safety-critical scenarios in simulation has become increasingly crucial for safety evaluation in autonomous vehicles prior to road deployment in society. However, current approaches largely rely on predefined threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiangfan Liu , Yongkang Guo , Fangzhi Zhong , Tianyuan Zhang , Zonglei Jing , Siyuan Liang , Jiakai Wang , Mingchuan Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu

Visual designers naturally draw inspiration from multiple visual references, combining diverse elements and aesthetic principles to create artwork. However, current image generative frameworks predominantly rely on single-source inputs --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ruoxi Chen , Dongping Chen , Siyuan Wu , Sinan Wang , Shiyun Lang , Petr Sushko , Gaoyang Jiang , Yao Wan , Ranjay Krishna

A free-viewpoint, editable, and high-fidelity driving simulator is crucial for training and evaluating end-to-end autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we present GA-Drive, a novel simulation framework capable of generating camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hao Zhang , Lue Fan , Qitai Wang , Wenbo Li , Zehuan Wu , Lewei Lu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Hongsheng Li

Existing lane-level simulation road network generation is labor-intensive, resource-demanding, and costly due to the need for large-scale data collection and manual post-editing. To overcome these limitations, we propose automatically…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liang Xie , Wenke Huang

Controllable and realistic traffic simulation is critical for developing and verifying autonomous vehicles. Typical heuristic-based traffic models offer flexible control to make vehicles follow specific trajectories and traffic rules. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziyuan Zhong , Davis Rempe , Danfei Xu , Yuxiao Chen , Sushant Veer , Tong Che , Baishakhi Ray , Marco Pavone