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In the era of deep learning, data is the critical determining factor in the performance of neural network models. Generating large datasets suffers from various difficulties such as scalability, cost efficiency and photorealism. To avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chahat Deep Singh , Riya Kumari , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Yiannis Aloimonos

Recent research has been increasingly focusing on developing 3D world models that simulate complex real-world scenarios. World models have found broad applications across various domains, including embodied AI, autonomous driving,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yinglin Duan , Zhengxia Zou , Tongwei Gu , Wei Jia , Zhan Zhao , Luyi Xu , Xinzhu Liu , Yenan Lin , Hao Jiang , Kang Chen , Shuang Qiu

World models are emerging as a transformative paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling agents to construct internal representations of their environments for predictive reasoning, planning, and decision-making. By learning latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Gaosheng Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Geng Sun , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyan Tu , Hanxin Zhu , Jingwen Sun , Shaojie Ren , Cong Wang , Jiayi Luo , Xiaoqian Cheng , Zhibo Chen

In the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous driving, the capability to accurately predict future events and assess their implications is paramount for both safety and efficiency, critically aiding the decision-making process. World…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Zhenning Li , Jia Hu , Runze Yuan , Yunjian Li , Guohui Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

World models envision potential future states based on various ego actions. They embed extensive knowledge about the driving environment, facilitating safe and scalable autonomous driving. Most existing methods primarily focus on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yu Yang , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Siliang Du , Wenqing Chen , Yijie Qian , Yuxiang Feng , Yong Liu

Video--based world models have emerged along two dominant paradigms: video generation and 3D reconstruction. However, existing evaluation benchmarks either focus narrowly on visual fidelity and text--video alignment for generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Meiqi Wu , Zhixin Cai , Fufangchen Zhao , Xiaokun Feng , Rujing Dang , Bingze Song , Ruitian Tian , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Hao Dou , Jing Tang , Lei Sun , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Zeming Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Traditional 3D modeling requires technical expertise, specialized software, and time-intensive processes, making it inaccessible for many users. Our research aims to lower these barriers by combining generative AI and augmented reality (AR)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Majid Behravan , Maryam Haghani , Denis Gracanin

Video-based world models have recently garnered increasing attention for their ability to synthesize diverse and dynamic visual environments. In this paper, we focus on shared world modeling, where a model generates multiple videos from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Jiacheng Wei , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Junyou Li , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

The recent wave of AI-generated content (AIGC) has witnessed substantial success in computer vision, with the diffusion model playing a crucial role in this achievement. Due to their impressive generative capabilities, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhen Xing , Qijun Feng , Haoran Chen , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

The rapid progress in embodied artificial intelligence has highlighted the necessity for more advanced and integrated models that can perceive, interpret, and predict environmental dynamics. In this context, World Models (WMs) have been…

World models serve as essential building blocks toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), enabling intelligent agents to predict future states and plan actions by simulating complex physical interactions. However, existing interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junyi Chen , Haoyi Zhu , Xianglong He , Yifan Wang , Jianjun Zhou , Wenzheng Chang , Yang Zhou , Zizun Li , Zhoujie Fu , Jiangmiao Pang , Tong He

The Driving World Model (DWM), which focuses on predicting scene evolution during the driving process, has emerged as a promising paradigm in the pursuit of autonomous driving (AD). DWMs enable AD systems to better perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sifan Tu , Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xingyu Jiang , Yumeng Zhang , Xiaofan Li , Xiang Bai

The generation of high-quality 3D environments is crucial for industries such as gaming, virtual reality, and cinema, yet remains resource-intensive due to the reliance on manual processes. This study performs a systematic review of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Miguel Silva , Alexandre Valle de Carvalho

Recent advances in visual generative models have highlighted the promise of learning generative world models. However, most existing approaches frame world modeling as novel-view synthesis or future-frame prediction, emphasizing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yifan Yin , Zehao Wen , Jieneng Chen , Zehan Zheng , Nanru Dai , Haojun Shi , Suyu Ye , Aydan Huang , Zheyuan Zhang , Alan Yuille , Jianwen Xie , Ayush Tewari , Tianmin Shu

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to operate in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments, performing tasks such as manipulation, navigation, and decision-making. Achieving these capabilities requires agents to understand the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peng-Fei Zhang , Ying Cheng , Xiaofan Sun , Shijie Wang , Fengling Li , Lei Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

Both text and video data are abundant on the internet and support large-scale self-supervised learning through next token or frame prediction. However, they have not been equally leveraged: language models have had significant real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Sherry Yang , Jacob Walker , Jack Parker-Holder , Yilun Du , Jake Bruce , Andre Barreto , Pieter Abbeel , Dale Schuurmans