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Modeling dynamic 3D environments from LiDAR sequences is central to building reliable 4D worlds for autonomous driving and embodied AI. Existing generative frameworks, however, often treat all spatial regions uniformly, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiang Xu , Alan Liang , Youquan Liu , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

Understanding, navigating, and exploring the 3D physical real world has long been a central challenge in the development of artificial intelligence. In this work, we take a step toward this goal by introducing GenEx, a system capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Taiming Lu , Tianmin Shu , Junfei Xiao , Luoxin Ye , Jiahao Wang , Cheng Peng , Chen Wei , Daniel Khashabi , Rama Chellappa , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

World models have garnered increasing attention in the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), serving as computational frameworks for learning representations of the external world and forecasting future states. While early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ningwei Xie , Zizi Tian , Lei Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Meng Guo , Jie Li

Automated 3D scene generation is pivotal for applications spanning virtual reality, digital content creation, and Embodied AI. While computer graphics prioritizes aesthetic layouts, vision and robotics demand scenes that mirror real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Minzhang Li , Kuixiang Shao , Xuebing Li , Yuyang Jiao , Yinuo Bai , Hengan Zhou , Sixian Shen , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu

Video depth estimation extends monocular prediction into the temporal domain to ensure coherence. However, existing methods often suffer from spatial blurring in fine-detail regions and temporal inconsistencies. We argue that current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuecheng Liu , Junda Cheng , Longliang Liu , Wenjing Liao , Hanrui Cheng , Yuzhou Wang , Xin Yang

The integration of visual understanding and generation into unified multimodal models represents a significant stride toward general-purpose AI. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by existing benchmarks: does this…

Egocentric human motion generation and forecasting with scene-context is crucial for enhancing AR/VR experiences, improving human-robot interaction, advancing assistive technologies, and enabling adaptive healthcare solutions by accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Chaitanya Patel , Hiroki Nakamura , Yuta Kyuragi , Kazuki Kozuka , Juan Carlos Niebles , Ehsan Adeli

Active 3D reconstruction enables an agent to autonomously select viewpoints to efficiently obtain accurate and complete scene geometry, rather than passively reconstructing scenes from pre-collected images. However, existing active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianling Xu , Shengzhe Gan , Leslie Gu , Yuelei Li , Fangneng Zhan , Hanspeter Pfister

Recently, the surge of efficient and automated 3D AI-generated content (AIGC) methods has increasingly illuminated the path of transforming human imagination into complex 3D structures. However, the automated generation of 3D content is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Pei Chen , Fudong Wang , Yixuan Tong , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Minghui Yang

Egocentric visual query localization is vital for embodied AI and VR/AR, yet remains challenging due to camera motion, viewpoint changes, and appearance variations. We present EAGLE, a novel framework that leverages episodic appearance- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yifei Cao , Yu Liu , Guolong Wang , Zhu Liu , Kai Wang , Xianjie Zhang , Jizhe Yu , Xun Tu

Pretrained video diffusion models provide powerful spatiotemporal generative priors, making them a natural foundation for robotic world models. While recent world-action models jointly optimize future videos and actions, they predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhaoyang Yang , Yurun Jin , Lizhe Qi , Cong Huang , Kai Chen

Previous works leveraging video models for image-to-3D scene generation tend to suffer from geometric distortions and blurry content. In this paper, we renovate the pipeline of image-to-3D scene generation by unlocking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuhao Wan , Lijuan Liu , Jingzhi Zhou , Zihan Zhou , Xuying Zhang , Dongbo Zhang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

Scalable Embodied AI faces fundamental constraints due to prohibitive costs and safety risks of real-world interaction. While Embodied World Models (EWMs) offer promise through imagined rollouts, existing approaches suffer from geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruicheng Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Zunnan Xu , Zihao Liu , Zhizhou Zhong , Mingyang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li

Eye tracking (ET) is a foundational technology for advanced AR/VR applications. However, training ET models for every new ET device is challenging: real data collection is costly and time-consuming, while existing synthetic data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Corentin Dumery , David Colmenares , Alexander Fix , Pascal Fua , Ali Behrooz , Jogendra Kundu

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

The recent advancement of generative foundational models has ushered in a new era of image generation in the realm of natural images, revolutionizing art design, entertainment, environment simulation, and beyond. Despite producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhiping Yu , Chenyang Liu , Liqin Liu , Zhenwei Shi , Zhengxia Zou

The rapid advancement of image-generation technologies has made it possible for anyone to create photorealistic images using generative models, raising significant security concerns. To mitigate malicious use, tracing the origin of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chao Wang , Zijin Yang , Yaofei Wang , Weiming Zhang , Kejiang Chen

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. However, existing approaches lack the ability to explicitly reason about the full 3D geometry of the object when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Qingkai Lu , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Martin Matak , Tucker Hermans