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Recent advancements in generative models have unlocked the capabilities to render photo-realistic data in a controllable fashion. Trained on the real data, these generative models are capable of producing realistic samples with minimal to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Abhay Rawat , Shubham Dokania , Astitva Srivastava , Shuaib Ahmed , Haiwen Feng , Rahul Tallamraju

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

Recent advancements in large generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have significantly enhanced the capabilities of image editing. However, achieving precise control over image composition tasks remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jinrui Yang , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Soo Ye Kim , Daniil Pakhomov , Mengwei Ren , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

The automated generation of interactive 3D cities is a critical challenge with broad applications in autonomous driving, virtual reality, and embodied intelligence. While recent advances in generative models and procedural techniques have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zishan Liu , Zecong Tang , RuoCheng Wu , Xinzhe Zheng , Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Haoran Xie , Bo Dai , Zhengzhe Liu

Reproducible closed-loop evaluation remains a major bottleneck in Embodied AI such as visual navigation. A promising path forward is high-fidelity simulation that combines photorealistic sensor rendering with geometrically grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhao Liu , Jiaqi Li , Youming Deng , Ruxin Chen , Yingjia Zhang , Yifei Ma , Li Guo , Yiming Li , Jing Zhang , Chen Feng

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

We investigate using reinforcement learning agents as generative models of images (extending arXiv:1804.01118). A generative agent controls a simulated painting environment, and is trained with rewards provided by a discriminator network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 John F. J. Mellor , Eunbyung Park , Yaroslav Ganin , Igor Babuschkin , Tejas Kulkarni , Dan Rosenbaum , Andy Ballard , Theophane Weber , Oriol Vinyals , S. M. Ali Eslami

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

This study addresses the challenge that generative models struggle to balance flexibility, stability, and controllability in complex interactive scenarios. It proposes a controllable generation framework for dynamic interactive content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rui Liu

Real-world videos naturally portray complex interactions among distinct physical objects, effectively forming dynamic compositions of visual elements. However, most current video generation models synthesize scenes holistically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guofeng Zhang , Angtian Wang , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Liming Jiang , Haotian Yang , Alan Yuille , Chongyang Ma

Text-to-video generation has been dominated by diffusion-based or autoregressive models. These novel models provide plausible versatility, but are criticized for improper physical motion, shading and illumination, camera motion, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liu He , Yizhi Song , Hejun Huang , Pinxin Liu , Yunlong Tang , Daniel Aliaga , Xin Zhou

The acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data is a resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Compared to conventional Data Augmentation (DA) techniques (e.g. cropping and rotation), exploiting prevailing diffusion models for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunxiang Fu , Chaoqi Chen , Yu Qiao , Yizhou Yu

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso , Federico Danieli , Arno Blaas , Luca Zappella , Pau Rodriguez , Xavier Suau

We introduce RealmDreamer, a technique for generating forward-facing 3D scenes from text descriptions. Our method optimizes a 3D Gaussian Splatting representation to match complex text prompts using pretrained diffusion models. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jaidev Shriram , Alex Trevithick , Lingjie Liu , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Recent years have seen substantial improvements in the ability to generate synthetic 3D objects using AI. However, generating complex 3D objects, such as plants, remains a considerable challenge. Current generative 3D models struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zane K J Hartley , Lewis A G Stuart , Andrew P French , Michael P Pound

The increasing prevalence of Large Language Models (LMs) in critical applications highlights the need for controlled language generation strategies that are not only computationally efficient but that also enjoy performance guarantees. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso

Generative AI tools are becoming more prevalent in 3D modeling, enabling users to manipulate or create new models with text or images as inputs. This makes it easier for users to rapidly customize and iterate on their 3D designs and explore…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Faraz Faruqi , Yingtao Tian , Vrushank Phadnis , Varun Jampani , Stefanie Mueller

We introduce DreamGen, a simple yet highly effective 4-stage pipeline for training robot policies that generalize across behaviors and environments through neural trajectories - synthetic robot data generated from video world models.…