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We introduce Language World Models, a class of language-conditional generative model which interpret natural language messages by predicting latent codes of future observations. This provides a visual grounding of the message, similar to an…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel 3D-aware image generation method that leverages 2D diffusion models. We formulate the 3D-aware image generation task as multiview 2D image set generation, and further to a sequential…

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World models, generative AI systems that simulate how environments evolve, are transforming autonomous driving, yet all existing approaches adopt an ego-vehicle perspective, leaving the infrastructure viewpoint unexplored. We argue that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Siyuan Meng , Chengbo Ai

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in deep learning powered visual content creation. This includes deep generative 3D-aware image synthesis, which produces high-idelity images in a 3D-consistent manner while simultaneously capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Weihao Xia , Jing-Hao Xue

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi 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

Object detection in video and image surveillance is a well-established yet rapidly evolving task, strongly influenced by recent deep learning advancements. This review summarises modern techniques by examining architectural innovations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Sukana Zulfqar , Sadia Saeed , M. Azam Zia , Anjum Ali , Faisal Mehmood , Abid Ali

Recent advancements in video diffusion models enable the generation of photorealistic videos with impressive 3D consistency and temporal coherence. However, the extent to which these AI-generated videos simulate the 3D visual world remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chirui Chang , Jiahui Liu , Zhengzhe Liu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Yi-Hua Huang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

As large language models (LLMs) evolve, their integration with 3D spatial data (3D-LLMs) has seen rapid progress, offering unprecedented capabilities for understanding and interacting with physical spaces. This survey provides a…

Deep generative models of 3D shapes have received a great deal of research interest. Yet, almost all of them generate discrete shape representations, such as voxels, point clouds, and polygon meshes. We present the first 3D generative model…

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Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

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…

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Video generation is a rapidly advancing research area, garnering significant attention due to its broad range of applications. One critical aspect of this field is the generation of long-duration videos, which presents unique challenges and…

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Exploring new knowledge is a fundamental human ability that can be mirrored in the development of deep neural networks, especially in the field of object detection. Open world object detection (OWOD) is an emerging area of research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiming Li , Yi Wang , Wenqian Wang , Dan Lin , Bingbing Li , Kim-Hui Yap

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

Creating high-fidelity 3D models of indoor environments is essential for applications in design, virtual reality, and robotics. However, manual 3D modeling remains time-consuming and labor-intensive. While recent advances in generative AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chuan Fang , Heng Li , Yixun Liang , Jia Zheng , Yongsen Mao , Yuan Liu , Rui Tang , Zihan Zhou , Ping Tan

Video is a rich and scalable source of 3D/4D visual observations, and camera control is a key capability for video generation models to produce geometrically meaningful content. Existing approaches typically learn a mapping from camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chen Hou , Christian Rupprecht

Generative models have emerged as an essential building block for many image synthesis and editing tasks. Recent advances in this field have also enabled high-quality 3D or video content to be generated that exhibits either multi-view or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Sherwin Bahmani , Jeong Joon Park , Despoina Paschalidou , Hao Tang , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Large language model (LLM) agents trained using reinforcement learning has achieved superhuman performance in low-cost environments like games, mathematics, and coding. However, these successes have not translated to complex domains where…

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World-model-based imagine-then-act becomes a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet existing approaches typically support either purely image-based forecasting or reasoning over partial 3D geometry, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiaxu Wang , Yicheng Jiang , Tianlun He , Jingkai Sun , Qiang Zhang , Junhao He , Jiahang Cao , Zesen Gan , Mingyuan Sun , Qiming Shao , Xiangyu Yue