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Emerging world models autoregressively generate video frames in response to actions, such as camera movements and text prompts, among other control signals. Due to limited temporal context window sizes, these models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tong Wu , Shuai Yang , Ryan Po , Yinghao Xu , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Gordon Wetzstein

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of 3D human model and avatar generation technology, propelled by the rapid advancements in large-scale models and artificial intelligence. The paper reviews the comprehensive process of 3D human…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Liu , Ke Zhao

This paper explores the burgeoning field of 3D content generation within the landscape of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) and large-scale models. It investigates innovative methods like Text-to-3D and Image-to-3D, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ke Zhao , Andreas Larsen

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

Closed-loop simulation is essential for advancing end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Contemporary sensor simulation methods, such as NeRF and 3DGS, rely predominantly on conditions closely aligned with training data distributions, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Guosheng Zhao , Chaojun Ni , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Xueyang Zhang , Yida Wang , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Boyuan Wang , Youyi Zhang , Wenjun Mei , Xingang Wang

In recent years, 3D vision has become a crucial field within computer vision, powering a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, augmented reality, and medical imaging. This field relies on accurate perception,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhen Wang , Dongyuan Li , Yaozu Wu , Tianyu He , Jiang Bian , Renhe Jiang

The recent advances in text and image synthesis show a great promise for the future of generative models in creative fields. However, a less explored area is the one of 3D model generation, with a lot of potential applications to game…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Antoine Schnepf , Flavian Vasile , Ugo Tanielian

Deep generative models have unlocked another profound realm of human creativity. By capturing and generalizing patterns within data, we have entered the epoch of all-encompassing Artificial Intelligence for General Creativity (AIGC).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hanqun Cao , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Yilun Xu , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stan Z. Li

3D human interaction generation has emerged as a key research area, focusing on producing dynamic and contextually relevant interactions between humans and various interactive entities. Recent rapid advancements in 3D model representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siyuan Fan , Wenke Huang , Xiantao Cai , Bo Du

3D modeling has long been an important area in computer vision and computer graphics. Recently, thanks to the breakthroughs in neural representations and generative models, we witnessed a rapid development of 3D modeling. 3D human modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ruihe Wang , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

World Models help Artificial Intelligence (AI) predict outcomes, reason about its environment, and guide decision-making. While widely used in reinforcement learning, they lack the structured, adaptive representations that even young…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Javier Del Ser , Jesus L. Lobo , Heimo Müller , Andreas Holzinger

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly transformed the field of 3D shape generation, enabling the synthesis of complex, diverse, and semantically meaningful 3D objects. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nicolas Caytuiro , Ivan Sipiran

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful new family of deep generative models with record-breaking performance in many applications, including image synthesis, video generation, and molecule design. In this survey, we provide an overview…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Song , Shenda Hong , Runsheng Xu , Yue Zhao , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Generative world models for autonomous driving (AD) have become a trending topic. Unlike the widely studied image modality, in this work we explore generative world models for LiDAR data. Existing generation methods for LiDAR data only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Sizhuo Zhou , Xiaosong Jia , Fanrui Zhang , Junjie Li , Juyong Zhang , Yukang Feng , Jianwen Sun , Songbur Wong , Junqi You , Junchi Yan

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

In this paper, we propose OccTENS, a generative occupancy world model that enables controllable, high-fidelity long-term occupancy generation while maintaining computational efficiency. Different from visual generation, the occupancy world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bu Jin , Songen Gu , Xiaotao Hu , Yupeng Zheng , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Wei Yin

The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly in the last few years. With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable unsupervised learning paradigms, recent large-scale generative models…

Video generation models have rapidly progressed, positioning themselves as video world models capable of supporting decision-making applications like robotics and autonomous driving. However, current benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dacheng Li , Yunhao Fang , Yukang Chen , Shuo Yang , Shiyi Cao , Justin Wong , Michael Luo , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Song Han , Yao Lu