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Path planning in complex environments is one of the key problems of artificial intelligence because it requires simultaneous understanding of the geometry of space and the global structure of the problem. In this paper, we explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Michał Wieczorek

Data scarcity continues to be a major challenge in the field of robotic manipulation. Although diffusion models provide a promising solution for generating robotic manipulation videos, existing methods largely depend on 2D trajectories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ying Li , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaowei Chi , Yuming Li , Zhongyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Ningning Ma , Ming Lu , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang

Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable. Achieving this requires sim agent policies that are human-like, fast, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Wei-Jer Chang , Akshay Rangesh , Kevin Joseph , Matthew Strong , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

LiDAR scenes constitute a fundamental source for several autonomous driving applications. Despite the existence of several datasets, scenes from adverse weather conditions are rarely available. This limits the robustness of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andrea Matteazzi , Pascal Colling , Michael Arnold , Dietmar Tutsch

Autonomous driving systems require comprehensive evaluation in safety-critical scenarios to ensure safety and robustness. However, such scenarios are rare and difficult to collect from real-world driving data, necessitating simulation-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhulin Jiang , Zetao Li , Cheng Wang , Ziwen Wang , Chen Xiong

Testing and validating Autonomous Vehicle (AV) performance in safety-critical and diverse scenarios is crucial before real-world deployment. However, manually creating such scenarios in simulation remains a significant and time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Efimia Panagiotaki , Georgi Pramatarov , Lars Kunze , Daniele De Martini

Achieving human-like driving behaviors in complex open-world environments is a critical challenge in autonomous driving. Contemporary learning-based planning approaches such as imitation learning methods often struggle to balance competing…

Recent advances in subject-driven image generation using diffusion models have attracted considerable attention for their remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images. Nevertheless, the potential of Visual Autoregressive (VAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xin Jiang , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Kezhou Chen , Zechao Li , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Latent space is one of the key concepts in generative AI, offering powerful means for creative exploration through vector manipulation. However, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion lack the intuitive latent vector control found in GANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhihua Zhong , Xuanyang Huang

While diffusion models have significantly advanced the quality of image generation their capability to accurately and coherently render text within these images remains a substantial challenge. Conventional diffusion-based methods for scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qilong Zhangli , Jindong Jiang , Di Liu , Licheng Yu , Xiaoliang Dai , Ankit Ramchandani , Guan Pang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Praveen Krishnan

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

The techniques for 3D indoor scene capturing are widely used, but the meshes produced leave much to be desired. In this paper, we propose "RoomDreamer", which leverages powerful natural language to synthesize a new room with a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Liangchen Song , Liangliang Cao , Hongyu Xu , Kai Kang , Feng Tang , Junsong Yuan , Yang Zhao

Constructing robots to accomplish long-horizon tasks is a long-standing challenge within artificial intelligence. Approaches using generative methods, particularly Diffusion Models, have gained attention due to their ability to model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Sigmund Hennum Høeg , Aksel Vaaler , Chaoqi Liu , Olav Egeland , Yilun Du

Rare and challenging driving scenarios are critical for autonomous vehicle development. Since they are difficult to encounter, simulating or generating them using generative models is a popular approach. Following previous efforts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Arthur Hubert , Gamal Elghazaly , Raphaël Frank

Image-generation diffusion models have been fine-tuned to unlock new capabilities such as image-editing and novel view synthesis. Can we similarly unlock image-generation models for visuomotor control? We present GENIMA, a behavior-cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohit Shridhar , Yat Long Lo , Stephen James

Generating unbounded 3D scenes is crucial for large-scale scene understanding and simulation. Urban scenes, unlike natural landscapes, consist of various complex man-made objects and structures such as roads, traffic signs, vehicles, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Junge Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Li Zhang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Gaowen Liu , Bolei Zhou

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images from text prompts, they struggle with visual consistency when generating image sequences. Existing methods generate each image independently, leading to disjointed narratives -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Guilherme Fernandes , Vasco Ramos , Regev Cohen , Idan Szpektor , João Magalhães

We introduce SceneTransporter, an end-to-end framework for structured 3D scene generation from a single image. While existing methods generate part-level 3D objects, they often fail to organize these parts into distinct instances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ling Wang , Hao-Xiang Guo , Xinzhou Wang , Fuchun Sun , Kai Sun , Pengkun Liu , Hang Xiao , Zhong Wang , Guangyuan Fu , Eric Li , Yang Liu , Yikai Wang

Real-world crash reports, which combine textual summaries and sketches, are valuable for scenario-based testing of autonomous driving systems (ADS). However, current methods cannot effectively translate this multimodal data into precise,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fida Khandaker Safa , Yupeng Jiang , Xi Zheng

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