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Realistic and diverse simulation scenarios with reactive and feasible agent behaviors can be used for validation and verification of self-driving system performance without relying on expensive and time-consuming real-world testing.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Qichao Zhang , Yinfeng Gao , Yikang Zhang , Youtian Guo , Dawei Ding , Yunpeng Wang , Peng Sun , Dongbin Zhao

Advances in video generation have significantly improved the realism and quality of created scenes. This has fueled interest in developing intuitive tools that let users leverage video generation as world simulators. Text-to-video (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zuhao Liu , Aleksandar Yanev , Ahmad Mahmood , Ivan Nikolov , Saman Motamed , Wei-Shi Zheng , Xi Wang , Lei Sun , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Controllable driving scene generation is critical for realistic and scalable autonomous driving simulation, yet existing approaches struggle to jointly achieve photorealism and precise control. We introduce HorizonForge, a unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yifan Wang , Francesco Pittaluga , Zaid Tasneem , Chenyu You , Manmohan Chandraker , Ziyu Jiang

The evolution of video generation from text, from animating MNIST to simulating the world with Sora, has progressed at a breakneck speed. Here, we systematically discuss how far text-to-video generation technology supports essential…

Continual learning refers to the ability of humans and animals to incrementally learn over time in a given environment. Trying to simulate this learning process in machines is a challenging task, also due to the inherent difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Lapo Faggi , Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci

Recent developments in generative models and large-scale datasets have substantially advanced 3D world generation, facilitating a broad range of domains including spatial intelligence, embodied intelligence, and autonomous driving. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hanxin Zhu , Cong Wang , Peiyan Tu , Jiayi Luo , Tianyu He , Xin Jin , Zhibo Chen

We tackle the problem of producing realistic simulations of LiDAR point clouds, the sensor of preference for most self-driving vehicles. We argue that, by leveraging real data, we can simulate the complex world more realistically compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shenlong Wang , Kelvin Wong , Wenyuan Zeng , Mikita Sazanovich , Shuhan Tan , Bin Yang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Raquel Urtasun

Driving simulation plays a crucial role in developing reliable driving agents by providing controlled, evaluative environments. To enable meaningful assessments, a high-quality driving simulator must satisfy several key requirements:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junzhe Jiang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Recently, there have been a lot of researches to synthesize / edit the motion of a single avatar in the virtual environment. However, there has not been so much work of simulating continuous interactions of multiple avatars such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Hubert P. H. Shum , Taku Komura

We introduce the concept of a generative infinite game, a video game that transcends the traditional boundaries of finite, hard-coded systems by using generative models. Inspired by James P. Carse's distinction between finite and infinite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jialu Li , Yuanzhen Li , Neal Wadhwa , Yael Pritch , David E. Jacobs , Michael Rubinstein , Mohit Bansal , Nataniel Ruiz

We present GLASS, a method for Global and Local Action-driven Sequence Synthesis. GLASS is a generative model that is trained on video sequences in an unsupervised manner and that can animate an input image at test time. The method learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Aram Davtyan , Paolo Favaro

Autoregressive video world models predict future visual observations conditioned on actions. While effective over short horizons, these models often struggle with long-horizon generation, as small prediction errors accumulate over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Junchao Huang , Ziyang Ye , Xinting Hu , Tianyu He , Guiyu Zhang , Shaoshuai Shi , Jiang Bian , Li Jiang

Current datasets for action recognition tasks face limitations stemming from traditional collection and generation methods, including the constrained range of action classes, absence of multi-viewpoint recordings, limited diversity, poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xingyu Song , Zhan Li , Shi Chen , Kazuyuki Demachi

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

We present MagicInfinite, a novel diffusion Transformer (DiT) framework that overcomes traditional portrait animation limitations, delivering high-fidelity results across diverse character types-realistic humans, full-body figures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hongwei Yi , Tian Ye , Shitong Shao , Xuancheng Yang , Jiantong Zhao , Hanzhong Guo , Terrance Wang , Qingyu Yin , Zeke Xie , Lei Zhu , Wei Li , Michael Lingelbach , Daquan Zhou

Autoregressive video diffusion models have proved effective for world modeling and interactive scene generation, with Minecraft gameplay as a representative application. To faithfully simulate play, a model must generate natural content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Junchao Huang , Xinting Hu , Boyao Han , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Tianyu He , Li Jiang

Recent advances in video generation have led to remarkable improvements in visual quality and temporal coherence. Upon this, trajectory-controllable video generation has emerged to enable precise object motion control through explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Quanhao Li , Zhen Xing , Rui Wang , Hui Zhang , Qi Dai , Zuxuan Wu

Recent video-based world models have made pixel-space environments interactive at the camera level: users can navigate viewpoints while the model generates coherent visual continuations. Yet their action spaces remain incomplete: users can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bohai Gu , Taiyi Wu , Yueyang Yuan , Jian Liu , Xiaocheng Lu , Dazhao Du , Jie Zhang , Jinxiang Lai , Shuai Yang , Xiaotong Zhao , Alan Zhao , Song Guo

Generating 3D worlds from text is a highly anticipated goal in computer vision. Existing works are limited by the degree of exploration they allow inside of a scene, i.e., produce streched-out and noisy artifacts when moving beyond central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li
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