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Urban areas, as the primary human habitat in modern civilization, accommodate a broad spectrum of social activities. With the surge of embodied intelligence, recent years have witnessed an increasing presence of physical agents in urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shougao Zhang , Mengqi Zhou , Yuxi Wang , Chuanchen Luo , Rongyu Wang , Yiwei Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

Synthesizing photo-realistic visual observations from an ego vehicle's driving trajectory is a critical step towards scalable training of self-driving models. Reconstruction-based methods create 3D scenes from driving logs and synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiageng Mao , Boyi Li , Boris Ivanovic , Yuxiao Chen , Yan Wang , Yurong You , Chaowei Xiao , Danfei Xu , Marco Pavone , Yue Wang

The generation of high-quality 3D environments is crucial for industries such as gaming, virtual reality, and cinema, yet remains resource-intensive due to the reliance on manual processes. This study performs a systematic review of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Miguel Silva , Alexandre Valle de Carvalho

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

We address the problem of generating a 3D-consistent, navigable environment that is spatially grounded: a simulation of a real location. Existing video generative models can produce a plausible sequence that is consistent with a text (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gene Chou , Charles Herrmann , Kyle Genova , Boyang Deng , Songyou Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Jason Y. Zhang , Noah Snavely , Philipp Henzler

As several industries are moving towards modeling massive 3D virtual worlds, the need for content creation tools that can scale in terms of the quantity, quality, and diversity of 3D content is becoming evident. In our work, we aim to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jun Gao , Tianchang Shen , Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , Kangxue Yin , Daiqing Li , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler

The creation of complex 3D scenes tailored to user specifications has been a tedious and challenging task with traditional 3D modeling tools. Although some pioneering methods have achieved automatic text-to-3D generation, they are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xiuyu Yang , Yunze Man , Jun-Kun Chen , Yu-Xiong Wang

3D Content Generation is at the heart of many computer graphics applications, including video gaming, film-making, virtual and augmented reality, etc. This paper proposes a novel deep-learning based approach for automatically generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yongzhi Xu , Yonhon Ng , Yifu Wang , Inkyu Sa , Yunfei Duan , Zhenhong Sun , Yang Li , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

Significant progress has recently been made in creative applications of large pre-trained models for downstream tasks in 3D vision, such as text-to-shape generation. This motivates our investigation of how these pre-trained models can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aditya Sanghi , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Arianna Rampini , Joseph Lambourne , Hooman Shayani , Evan Atherton , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki

Urban scene generation has been developing rapidly recently. However, existing methods primarily focus on generating static and single-frame scenes, overlooking the inherently dynamic nature of real-world driving environments. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hengwei Bian , Lingdong Kong , Haozhe Xie , Liang Pan , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Building an efficient and physically consistent world model from limited observations is a long standing challenge in vision and robotics. Many existing world modeling pipelines are based on implicit generative models, which are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wenhao Hu , Xuexiang Wen , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Recent advances in text-to-3D scene generation have demonstrated significant potential to transform content creation across multiple industries. Although the research community has made impressive progress in addressing the challenges of…

Text-driven 3D scene generation techniques have made rapid progress in recent years. Their success is mainly attributed to using existing generative models to iteratively perform image warping and inpainting to generate 3D scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Frank Zhang , Yibo Zhang , Quan Zheng , Rui Ma , Wei Hua , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu , Changqing Zou

Synthetic images rendered by graphics engines are a promising source for training deep networks. However, it is challenging to ensure that they can help train a network to perform well on real images, because a graphics-based generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Dawei Yang , Jia Deng

Generating high-quality, textured 3D scenes from a single image remains a fundamental challenge in vision and graphics. Recent image-to-3D generators recover reasonable geometry from single views, but their object-centric training limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kaizhi Zheng , Yue Fan , Jing Gu , Zishuo Xu , Xuehai He , Xin Eric Wang

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinqing Li , Ruiqi Song , Qingyu Xie , Ye Wu , Nanxin Zeng , Yunfeng Ai

This paper describes a novel approach for on demand volumetric texture synthesis based on a deep learning framework that allows for the generation of high quality 3D data at interactive rates. Based on a few example images of textures, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Jorge Gutierrez , Julien Rabin , Bruno Galerne , Thomas Hurtut

Synthesizing large-scale, explorable, and geometrically accurate 3D urban scenes is a challenging yet valuable task for immersive and embodied applications. The challenge lies in the lack of large-scale and high-quality real-world 3D scans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jie-Ying Lee , Yi-Ruei Liu , Shr-Ruei Tsai , Wei-Cheng Chang , Chung-Ho Wu , Jiewen Chan , Zhenjun Zhao , Chieh Hubert Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

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

Recent advancements in generative models have enabled 3D urban scene generation from satellite imagery, unlocking promising applications in gaming, digital twins, and beyond. However, most existing methods rely heavily on neural rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tongyan Hua , Lutao Jiang , Ying-Cong Chen , Wufan Zhao