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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…

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World models - generative models that simulate environment dynamics conditioned on past observations and actions - are gaining prominence in planning, simulation, and embodied AI. However, evaluating their rollouts remains a fundamental…

Navigation is a fundamental capability for mobile robots. While the current trend is to use learning-based approaches to replace traditional geometry-based methods, existing end-to-end learning-based policies often struggle with 3D spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wangtian Shen , Ziyang Meng , Jinming Ma , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for tasks like driving and robotic manipulation. What matters in these settings is not whether a single video looks right, but whether the model's output changes when its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kunlin Cai , Rui Song , Jinghuai Zhang , Kaiyuan Zhang , Pranav Bodapati , Alicia Yu , Fnu Suya , Mohammad Rostami , Jiaqi Ma , Yuan Tian

Video world models have attracted significant attention for their ability to produce high-fidelity future visual observations conditioned on past observations and navigation actions. Temporally- and spatially-consistent, long-term world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuta Oshima , Yusuke Iwasawa , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo , Hiroki Furuta

Generative models offer a scalable and flexible paradigm for simulating complex environments, yet current approaches fall short in addressing the domain-specific requirements of autonomous driving - such as multi-agent interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Lloyd Russell , Anthony Hu , Lorenzo Bertoni , George Fedoseev , Jamie Shotton , Elahe Arani , Gianluca Corrado

Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or teleoperation to achieve whole-body control, they are often limited by…

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

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

Navigation is a fundamental skill of agents with visual-motor capabilities. We introduce a Navigation World Model (NWM), a controllable video generation model that predicts future visual observations based on past observations and…

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Legged locomotion over various terrains is challenging and requires precise perception of the robot and its surroundings from both proprioception and vision. However, learning directly from high-dimensional visual input is often…

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Climate models encapsulate our best understanding of the Earth system, allowing research to be conducted on its future under alternative assumptions of how human-driven climate forces are going to evolve. An important application of climate…

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We study the problem of synthesizing a number of likely future frames from a single input image. In contrast to traditional methods that have tackled this problem in a deterministic or non-parametric way, we propose to model future frames…

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We present ChronoDreamer, an action-conditioned world model for contact-rich robotic manipulation. Given a history of egocentric RGB frames, contact maps, actions, and joint states, ChronoDreamer predicts future video frames, contact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhenhao Zhou , Dan Negrut

Humans navigate in their environment by learning a mental model of the world through passive observation and active interaction. Their world model allows them to anticipate what might happen next and act accordingly with respect to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Anthony Hu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high quality image and video data. More recently, they have also been used for image compression with high perceptual quality. In this paper, we present a novel approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Bohan Li , Yiming Liu , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Deniz Gündüz

We present WorldVLA, an autoregressive action world model that unifies action and image understanding and generation. Our WorldVLA intergrates Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model and world model in one single framework. The world model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jun Cen , Chaohui Yu , Hangjie Yuan , Yuming Jiang , Siteng Huang , Jiayan Guo , Xin Li , Yibing Song , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Deli Zhao , Hao Chen

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each correction requires robot time, scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yaxuan Li , Zhongyi Zhou , Yefei Chen , Yanjiang Guo , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang , Jianyu Chen , Yichen Zhu

Latent variable generative models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks including image and video synthesis. These models are enabled by pretrained autoencoders that map high resolution data into a compressed lower dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohammed Suhail , Carlos Esteves , Leonid Sigal , Ameesh Makadia

Heralded by the initial success in speech recognition and image classification, learning-based approaches with neural networks, commonly referred to as deep learning, have spread across various fields. A primitive form of a neural network…

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