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We introduce Infinigen, a procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural world. Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Alexander Raistrick , Lahav Lipson , Zeyu Ma , Lingjie Mei , Mingzhe Wang , Yiming Zuo , Karhan Kayan , Hongyu Wen , Beining Han , Yihan Wang , Alejandro Newell , Hei Law , Ankit Goyal , Kaiyu Yang , Jia Deng

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Generating human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yitong Wang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Bo Dai , Yan Lu

Action-conditioned video prediction models (often referred to as world models) have shown strong potential for robotics applications, but existing approaches are often slow and struggle to capture physically consistent interactions over…

World modeling is a crucial task for enabling intelligent agents to effectively interact with humans and operate in dynamic environments. In this work, we propose MineWorld, a real-time interactive world model on Minecraft, an open-ended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Tianyu He , Haoyu Wu , Yushu Jiang , Tim Pearce , Jiang Bian

Participating media are a pervasive and intriguing visual effect in virtual environments. Unfortunately, rendering such phenomena in real-time is notoriously difficult due to the computational expense of estimating the volume rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Li , Hanxiao Sun , Tao Huang , Haoxiang Wang , Tongtong Wang , Zherong Pan , Kui Wu

Data-driven autonomous driving simulation has long been constrained by its heavy reliance on pre-recorded driving logs or spatial priors, such as HD maps. This fundamental dependency severely limits scalability, restricting open-ended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tianran Liu , Shengwen Zhao , Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz , Weican Li , Nicholas Rhinehart

Current video generation models cannot simulate physical consequences of 3D actions like forces and robotic manipulations, as they lack structural understanding of how actions affect 3D scenes. We present RealWonder, the first real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Wei Liu , Ziyu Chen , Zizhang Li , Yue Wang , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

We present a neural network-based system for long-term, multi-action human motion synthesis. The system, dubbed as NEURAL MARIONETTE, can produce high-quality and meaningful motions with smooth transitions from simple user input, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Weiqiang Wang , Xuefei Zhe , Qiuhong Ke , Di Kang , Tingguang Li , Ruizhi Chen , Linchao Bao

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

Generating long-form storytelling videos with consistent visual narratives remains a significant challenge in video synthesis. We present a novel framework, dataset, and a model that address three critical limitations: background…

Data-driven methods have great advantages in modeling complicated human behavioral dynamics and dealing with many human-robot interaction applications. However, collecting massive and annotated real-world human datasets has been a laborious…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhuo Xu , Rui Zhou , Yida Yin , Huidong Gao , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jiachen Li

The gaming and entertainment industry is rapidly evolving, driven by immersive experiences and the integration of generative AI (GAI) technologies. Training such models effectively requires large-scale datasets that capture the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yuanzhi Li , Lebin Zhou , Nam Ling , Zhenghao Chen , Wei Wang , Wei Jiang

World models serve as core simulators for fields such as agentic AI, embodied AI, and gaming, capable of generating long, physically realistic, and interactive high-quality videos. Moreover, scaling these models could unlock emergent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Inferix Team , Tianyu Feng , Yizeng Han , Jiahao He , Yuanyu He , Xi Lin , Teng Liu , Hanfeng Lu , Jiasheng Tang , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Wang , Jichao Wu , Mingyang Yang , Yinghao Yu , Zeyu Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

Recent interactive video world model methods generate scene evolution conditioned on user instructions. Although they achieve impressive results, two key limitations remain. First, they exhibit motion drift in complex environments with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guangyuan Li , Bo Li , Jinwei Chen , Xiaobin Hu , Lei Zhao , Peng-Tao Jiang

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Recent approaches have demonstrated the promise of using diffusion models to generate interactive and explorable worlds. However, most of these methods face critical challenges such as excessively large parameter sizes, reliance on lengthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Xiaojie Xu , Kaining Ying , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

Realistic and controllable simulation is critical for advancing end-to-end autonomous driving, yet existing approaches often struggle to support novel view synthesis under large viewpoint changes or to ensure geometric consistency. We…

Synthetic data has become increasingly important for training large language models, especially when real data is scarce, expensive, or privacy-sensitive. Many such generation tasks require coordinated multi-agent workflows, where…