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We introduce a recipe for generating immersive 3D worlds from a single image by framing the task as an in-context learning problem for 2D inpainting models. This approach requires minimal training and uses existing generative models. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Katja Schwarz , Denys Rozumnyi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder

Creating immersive and playable 3D worlds from texts or images remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Existing world generation approaches typically fall into two categories: video-based methods that offer rich…

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

Recent progress in image and video synthesis has inspired their use in advancing 3D scene generation. However, we observe that text-to-image and -video approaches struggle to maintain scene- and object-level consistency beyond a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Angela Dai

Humans possess a remarkable ability to mentally explore and replay 3D environments they have previously experienced. Inspired by this mental process, we present EvoWorld: a world model that bridges panoramic video generation with evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiahao Wang , Luoxin Ye , TaiMing Lu , Junfei Xiao , Jiahan Zhang , Yuxiang Guo , Xijun Liu , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to generate safe and plausible planning policies from raw sensor input. Driving world models have shown great potential in learning rich representations by predicting the future evolution of a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingtai Gui , Meijie Zhang , Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert

This paper presents DriVerse, a generative model for simulating navigation-driven driving scenes from a single image and a future trajectory. Previous autonomous driving world models either directly feed the trajectory or discrete control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaofan Li , Chenming Wu , Zhao Yang , Zhihao Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yumeng Zhang , Ji Wan , Jun Wang

Generating explorable 3D scenes from a single image is a highly challenging problem in 3D vision. Existing methods struggle to support free exploration, often producing severe geometric distortions and noisy artifacts when the viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengfei Wang , Liyi Chen , Zhiyuan Ma , Yanjun Guo , Guowen Zhang , Lei Zhang

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 advances in text-to-3D creation integrate the potent prior of Diffusion Models from text-to-image generation into 3D domain. Nevertheless, generating 3D scenes with multiple objects remains challenging. Therefore, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yueming Zhao , Xuening Yuan , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

Recovering 3D scenes from sparse views is a challenging task due to its inherent ill-posed problem. Conventional methods have developed specialized solutions (e.g., geometry regularization or feed-forward deterministic model) to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Hanyang Wang , Fangfu Liu , Jiawei Chi , Yueqi Duan

Recent advances in driving-scene generation and reconstruction have demonstrated significant potential for enhancing autonomous driving systems by producing scalable and controllable training data. Existing generation methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ziyue Zhu , Zhanqian Wu , Zhenxin Zhu , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wan , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Jin Xie , jian Yang

3D world generation is essential for applications such as immersive content creation or autonomous driving simulation. Recent advances in 3D world generation have shown promising results; however, these methods are constrained by grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jaeyoung Chung , Suyoung Lee , Jianfeng Xiang , Jiaolong Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

Estimating video depth in open-world scenarios is challenging due to the diversity of videos in appearance, content motion, camera movement, and length. We present DepthCrafter, an innovative method for generating temporally consistent long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wenbo Hu , Xiangjun Gao , Xiaoyu Li , Sijie Zhao , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Long Quan , Ying Shan

We introduce Text2Immersion, an elegant method for producing high-quality 3D immersive scenes from text prompts. Our proposed pipeline initiates by progressively generating a Gaussian cloud using pre-trained 2D diffusion and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Hao Ouyang , Kathryn Heal , Stephen Lombardi , Tiancheng Sun

In recent years, 3D generation has made great strides in both academia and industry. However, generating 3D scenes from a single RGB image remains a significant challenge, as current approaches often struggle to ensure both object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiang Tang , Ruotong Li , Xiaopeng Fan

We introduce Drag4D, an interactive framework that integrates object motion control within text-driven 3D scene generation. This framework enables users to define 3D trajectories for the 3D objects generated from a single image, seamlessly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Minjun Kang , Inkyu Shin , Taeyeop Lee , In So Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

We present WonderZoom, a novel approach to generating 3D scenes with contents across multiple spatial scales from a single image. Existing 3D world generation models remain limited to single-scale synthesis and cannot produce coherent scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jin Cao , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

Generating a complete and explorable 360-degree visual world enables a wide range of downstream applications. While prior works have advanced the field, they remain constrained by either narrow field-of-view limitations, which hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuyang Yin , HaoXiang Guo , Fangfu Liu , Mengyu Wang , Hanwen Liang , Eric Li , Yikai Wang , Xiaojie Jin , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei