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Recent advances in video generation enable a new paradigm for 3D scene creation: generating camera-controlled videos that simulate scene walkthroughs, then lifting them to 3D via feed-forward reconstruction techniques. This generative…

In recent years, the demand for 3D content has grown exponentially with the intelligent upgrade of interactive media, extended reality (XR), and Metaverse industries. In order to overcome the limitations of traditional manual modeling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiang Tang , Ruotong Li , Xiaopeng Fan

Controllable generative models for images and videos have seen significant success, yet 3D scene generation, especially in unbounded scenarios like autonomous driving, remains underdeveloped. Existing methods lack flexible controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ruiyuan Gao , Kai Chen , Zhihao Li , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Qiang Xu

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

Video diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable progress in realism and controllability. However, achieving seamless video translation across different perspectives, such as first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Quanjian Song , Yiren Song , Kelly Peng , Yuan Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Previous Vision-Language-Action models face critical limitations in navigation: scarce, diverse data from labor-intensive collection and static representations that fail to capture temporal dynamics and physical laws. We propose NavDreamer,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Tianyue Wu , Congyu Wang , Zhiyang Liu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

Generative world models have become essential data engines for autonomous driving, yet most existing efforts focus on videos or occupancy grids, overlooking the unique LiDAR properties. Extending LiDAR generation to dynamic 4D world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ao Liang , Youquan Liu , Yu Yang , Dongyue Lu , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Huaici Zhao , Wei Tsang Ooi

We are witnessing significant breakthroughs in the technology for generating 3D objects from text. Existing approaches either leverage large text-to-image models to optimize a 3D representation or train 3D generators on object-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qihang Zhang , Chaoyang Wang , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Peiye Zhuang , Yinghao Xu , Ceyuan Yang , Dahua Lin , Bolei Zhou , Sergey Tulyakov , Hsin-Ying Lee

We introduce WonderJourney, a modularized framework for perpetual 3D scene generation. Unlike prior work on view generation that focuses on a single type of scenes, we start at any user-provided location (by a text description or an image)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hong-Xing Yu , Haoyi Duan , Junhwa Hur , Kyle Sargent , Michael Rubinstein , William T. Freeman , Forrester Cole , Deqing Sun , Noah Snavely , Jiajun Wu , Charles Herrmann

We introduce LivingWorld, an interactive framework for generating 4D worlds with environmental dynamics from a single image. While recent advances in 3D scene generation enable large-scale environment creation, most approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hyeongju Mun , In-Hwan Jin , Sohyeong Kim , Kyeongbo Kong

This research pioneers a method for generating immersive worlds, drawing inspiration from elements of vintage adventure games like Myst and employing modern text-to-image models. We explore the intricate conversion of 2D panoramas into 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Alexey Tikhonov , Anton Repushko

The advent of text-driven 360-degree panorama generation, enabling the synthesis of 360-degree panoramic images directly from textual descriptions, marks a transformative advancement in immersive visual content creation. This innovation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hai Wang , Xiaoyu Xiang , Weihao Xia , Jing-Hao Xue

Diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable achievements in 2D image or 3D object generation, however, the generation of 3D scenes and even $360^{\circ}$ images remains constrained, due to the limited number of scene datasets, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Weicai Ye , Chenhao Ji , Zheng Chen , Junyao Gao , Xiaoshui Huang , Song-Hai Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He , Cairong Zhao , Guofeng Zhang

Despite increasingly realistic image quality, recent 3D image generative models often operate on 3D volumes of fixed extent with limited camera motions. We investigate the task of unconditionally synthesizing unbounded nature scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Lucy Chai , Richard Tucker , Zhengqi Li , Phillip Isola , Noah Snavely

Generating coherent and useful image/video scenes from a free-form textual description is technically a very difficult problem to handle. Textual description of the same scene can vary greatly from person to person, or sometimes even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Faria Huq , Nafees Ahmed , Anindya Iqbal

Despite recent advancements in neural 3D reconstruction, the dependence on dense multi-view captures restricts their broader applicability. Additionally, 3D scene generation is vital for advancing embodied AI and world models, which depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuxin Zhang , Ziyu Lu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Pengting Luo , Peiyu Zhuang , Mengyu Yang , Houde Liu

We introduce NeoWorld, a deep learning framework for generating interactive 3D virtual worlds from a single input image. Inspired by the on-demand worldbuilding concept in the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 (1964), our system constructs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yanpeng Zhao , Shanyan Guan , Yunbo Wang , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiaokang Yang

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Despite recent advancements in neural 3D reconstruction, the dependence on dense multi-view captures restricts their broader applicability. In this work, we propose \textbf{ViewCrafter}, a novel method for synthesizing high-fidelity novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wangbo Yu , Jinbo Xing , Li Yuan , Wenbo Hu , Xiaoyu Li , Zhipeng Huang , Xiangjun Gao , Tien-Tsin Wong , Ying Shan , Yonghong Tian

Generating 3D scenes from natural language holds great promise for applications in gaming, film, and design. However, existing methods struggle with automation, 3D consistency, and fine-grained control. We present DreamScene, an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haoran Li , Yuli Tian , Kun Lan , Yong Liao , Lin Wang , Pan Hui , Peng Yuan Zhou