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World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

3D semantic occupancy prediction has emerged as a critical perception task for autonomous driving due to its ability to offer voxel-level semantic and geometric understanding of the environment. However, such a refined representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hanlin Wu , Pengfei Lin , Ehsan Javanmardi , Naren Bao , Bo Qian , Hao Si , Manabu Tsukada

We introduce a new family of video prediction models designed to support downstream control tasks. We call these models Video Occupancy models (VOCs). VOCs operate in a compact latent space, thus avoiding the need to make predictions about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Manan Tomar , Philippe Hansen-Estruch , Philip Bachman , Alex Lamb , John Langford , Matthew E. Taylor , Sergey Levine

Monocular 3D occupancy prediction, aiming to predict the occupancy and semantics within interesting regions of 3D scenes from only 2D images, has garnered increasing attention recently for its vital role in 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xu Zhao , Pengju Zhang , Bo Liu , Yihong Wu

We introduce a dual contouring method that provides state-of-the-art performance for occupancy functions while achieving computation times of a few seconds. Our method is learning-free and carefully designed to maximize the use of GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jisung Hwang , Minhyuk Sung

In recent years, autonomous driving has garnered escalating attention for its potential to relieve drivers' burdens and improve driving safety. Vision-based 3D occupancy prediction, which predicts the spatial occupancy status and semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yanan Zhang , Jinqing Zhang , Zengran Wang , Junhao Xu , Di Huang

For autonomous agents to successfully operate in the real world, anticipation of future events and states of their environment is a key competence. This problem can be formalized as a sequence prediction problem, where a number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Collaborative perception in automated vehicles leverages the exchange of information between agents, aiming to elevate perception results. Previous camera-based collaborative 3D perception methods typically employ 3D bounding boxes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Rui Song , Chenwei Liang , Hu Cao , Zhiran Yan , Walter Zimmer , Markus Gross , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

The large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles is yet to come, and one of the major remaining challenges lies in urban dense traffic scenarios. In such cases, it remains challenging to predict the future evolution of the scene and future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Ruobing Chen , Steven L. Waslander , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

Generative adversarial networks achieve great performance in photorealistic image synthesis in various domains, including human images. However, they usually employ latent vectors that encode the sampled outputs globally. This does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Recurrent feedback connections in the mammalian visual system have been hypothesized to play a role in synthesizing input in the theoretical framework of analysis by synthesis. The comparison of internally synthesized representation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Hao Wang , Xingyu Lin , Yimeng Zhang , Tai Sing Lee

World models based on video generation demonstrate remarkable potential for simulating interactive environments but face persistent difficulties in two key areas: maintaining long-term content consistency when scenes are revisited and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tianxing Xu , Zixuan Wang , Guangyuan Wang , Li Hu , Zhongyi Zhang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang

A real-time semantic 3D occupancy mapping framework is proposed in this paper. The mapping framework is based on the Bayesian kernel inference strategy from the literature. Two novel free space representations are proposed to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Yuanxin Zhong , Huei Peng

This paper addresses the problem of learning instantaneous occupancy levels of dynamic environments and predicting future occupancy levels. Due to the complexity of most real-world environments, such as urban streets or crowded areas, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Vitor Guizilini , Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

Accurately reconstructing complex full multi-object scenes from sparse observations remains a core challenge in computer vision and a key step toward scalable and reliable simulation for robotics. In this work, we introduce RecGen, a…

The task of estimating 3D occupancy from surrounding-view images is an exciting development in the field of autonomous driving, following the success of Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception. This task provides crucial 3D attributes of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Wanshui Gan , Ningkai Mo , Hongbin Xu , Naoto Yokoya

Occupancy prediction has garnered increasing attention in recent years for its comprehensive fine-grained environmental representation and strong generalization to open-set objects. However, cumbersome voxel features and 3D convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jinqing Zhang , Yanan Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Forecasting the evolution of 3D scenes and generating unseen scenarios via occupancy-based world models offers substantial potential for addressing corner cases in autonomous driving systems. While tokenization has revolutionized image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhimin Liao , Ping Wei , Ruijie Zhang , Shuaijia Chen , Haoxuan Wang , Ziyang Ren

Spatial computing experiences are constrained by the real-world surroundings of the user. In such experiences, augmenting virtual objects to existing scenes require a contextual approach, where geometrical conflicts are avoided, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Mohammad Keshavarzi , Aakash Parikh , Xiyu Zhai , Melody Mao , Luisa Caldas , Allen Y. Yang

With the advent of deep neural networks, learning-based approaches for 3D reconstruction have gained popularity. However, unlike for images, in 3D there is no canonical representation which is both computationally and memory efficient yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Lars Mescheder , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger