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Energy-based predictive world models provide a powerful approach for multi-step visual planning by reasoning over latent energy landscapes rather than generating pixels. However, existing approaches face two major challenges: (i) their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Zhang , Danning Li , Ian Reid , Richard Hartley

In recent years, video generation has seen significant advancements. However, challenges still persist in generating complex motions and interactions. To address these challenges, we introduce ReVision, a plug-and-play framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qihao Liu , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Alan Yuille

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert

We present 3DScenePrompt, a framework that generates the next video chunk from arbitrary-length input while enabling precise camera control and preserving scene consistency. Unlike methods conditioned on a single image or a short clip, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 JoungBin Lee , Jaewoo Jung , Jisang Han , Takuya Narihira , Kazumi Fukuda , Junyoung Seo , Sunghwan Hong , Yuki Mitsufuji , Seungryong Kim

We tackle the challenge of generating the infinitely extendable 3D world -- large, continuous environments with coherent geometry and realistic appearance. Existing methods face key challenges: 2D-lifting approaches suffer from geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sikuang Li , Chen Yang , Jiemin Fang , Taoran Yi , Jia Lu , Jiazhong Cen , Lingxi Xie , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow long-horizon instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. However, existing approaches face two major challenges: constructing an effective long-term memory bank and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zihao Xin , Wentong Li , Yixuan Jiang , Bin Wang , Runmin Cong , Jie Qin , Shengjun Huang

Generating explorable 3D scenes from a single image is a highly challenging problem in 3D vision. Existing methods struggle to support free exploration, often producing severe geometric distortions and noisy artifacts when the viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengfei Wang , Liyi Chen , Zhiyuan Ma , Yanjun Guo , Guowen Zhang , Lei Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of understanding dynamic 3D scenes from egocentric observations, a key challenge in robotics and embodied AI. Unlike prior studies that explored this as long-form video understanding and utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yue Fan , Xiaojian Ma , Rongpeng Su , Jun Guo , Rujie Wu , Xi Chen , Qing Li

Synthesizing photo-realistic visual observations from an ego vehicle's driving trajectory is a critical step towards scalable training of self-driving models. Reconstruction-based methods create 3D scenes from driving logs and synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiageng Mao , Boyi Li , Boris Ivanovic , Yuxiao Chen , Yan Wang , Yurong You , Chaowei Xiao , Danfei Xu , Marco Pavone , Yue Wang

Building video world models upon pretrained video generation systems represents an important yet challenging step toward general spatiotemporal intelligence. A world model should possess three essential properties: controllability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianxiong Gao , Zhaoxi Chen , Xian Liu , Junhao Zhuang , Chengming Xu , Jianfeng Feng , Yu Qiao , Yanwei Fu , Chenyang Si , Ziwei Liu

Automatically generating a complete 3D scene from a text description, a reference image, or both has significant applications in fields like virtual reality and gaming. However, current methods often generate low-quality textures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhexiao Xiong , Zhang Chen , Zhong Li , Yi Xu , Nathan Jacobs

Video world models should maintain evolving states when evidence is unobserved, yet current generators often freeze hidden states upon interruption. This is not simply a capacity problem: pretrained video diffusion transformers already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tianshuo Xu , Yichen Xie , Depu Meng , Chensheng Peng , Quentin Herau , Bo Jiang , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

Understanding the world in first-person view is fundamental in Augmented Reality (AR). This immersive perspective brings dramatic visual changes and unique challenges compared to third-person views. Synthetic data has empowered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Gen Li , Kaifeng Zhao , Siwei Zhang , Xiaozhong Lyu , Mihai Dusmanu , Yan Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Siyu Tang

Generating 3D scenes from human motion sequences supports numerous applications, including virtual reality and architectural design. However, previous auto-regression-based human-aware 3D scene generation methods have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaolin Hong , Hongwei Yi , Fazhi He , Qiong Cao

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

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for perception and interaction. Existing approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wanhee Lee , Klemen Kotar , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , Jared Watrous , Honglin Chen , Khai Loong Aw , Daniel L. K. Yamins

World models represent a promising approach for training reinforcement learning agents with significantly improved sample efficiency. While most world model methods primarily rely on sequences of discrete latent variables to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jia-Hua Lee , Bor-Jiun Lin , Wei-Fang Sun , Chun-Yi Lee

Creating immersive and playable 3D worlds from texts or images remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Existing world generation approaches typically fall into two categories: video-based methods that offer rich…

Understanding 3D scenes in open-world settings poses fundamental challenges for vision and robotics, particularly due to the limitations of closed-vocabulary supervision and static annotations. To address this, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Shengeng Tang , Yuehua Li , Lechao Cheng

Existing methods for human motion control in video generation typically rely on either 2D poses or explicit 3D parametric models (e.g., SMPL) as control signals. However, 2D poses rigidly bind motion to the driving viewpoint, precluding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhixue Fang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Haoxian Zhang , Qingfeng Li , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai