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Generative artificial intelligence has recently progressed from static image and video synthesis to 3D content generation, culminating in the emergence of 4D generation-the task of synthesizing temporally coherent dynamic 3D assets guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qiaowei Miao , Kehan Li , Jinsheng Quan , Zhiyuan Min , Shaojie Ma , Yichao Xu , Yi Yang , Ping Liu , Yawei Luo

LiDAR-based place recognition serves as a crucial enabler for long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous driving systems. Yet, prevailing methodologies relying on handcrafted feature extraction face dual challenges: (1) Inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaohui Jiang , Haijiang Zhu , Chade Li , Fulin Tang , Ning An

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

LiDAR and 4D radar are widely used in autonomous driving and robotics. While LiDAR provides rich spatial information, 4D radar offers velocity measurement and remains robust under adverse conditions. As a result, increasing studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiangyuan Peng , Miao Tang , Huawei Sun , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

We introduce Uni4D, a unified framework for large scale open vocabulary 3D retrieval and controlled 4D generation based on structured three level alignment across text, 3D models, and image modalities. Built upon the Align3D 130 dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Philip Xu

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

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

Scenes in the real world are often composed of several static and dynamic objects. Capturing their 4-dimensional structures, composition and spatio-temporal configuration in-the-wild, though extremely interesting, is equally hard.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ahmet Berke Gokmen , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Aligning structured data is a fundamental problem in computer vision and machine learning, underlying tasks such as time series analysis, human action recognition, and visual representation learning. Existing alignment methods, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Wang , Syuan-Hao Li , Yongsheng Gao , Piotr Koniusz

Achieving reliable and efficient planning in complex driving environments requires a model that can reason over the scene's geometry, appearance, and dynamics. We present UniDWM, a unified driving world model that advances autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shuai Liu , Siheng Ren , Xiaoyao Zhu , Quanmin Liang , Zefeng Li , Qiang Li , Xin Hu , Kai Huang

This paper presents a unified approach to understanding dynamic scenes from casual videos. Large pretrained vision foundation models, such as vision-language, video depth prediction, motion tracking, and segmentation models, offer promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 David Yifan Yao , Albert J. Zhai , Shenlong Wang

The integration of geometric reconstruction and generative modeling remains a critical challenge in developing AI systems capable of human-like spatial reasoning. This paper proposes Aether, a unified framework that enables geometry-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Aether Team , Haoyi Zhu , Yifan Wang , Jianjun Zhou , Wenzheng Chang , Yang Zhou , Zizun Li , Junyi Chen , Chunhua Shen , Jiangmiao Pang , Tong He

Images and videos are discrete 2D projections of the 4D world (3D space + time). Most visual understanding, prediction, and generation operate directly on 2D observations, leading to suboptimal performance. We propose SeeU, a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu Yuan , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Zeeshan Nadir , Xijun Wang , Yiheng Chi , Stanley H. Chan

Recent advancements in foundation models for 2D vision have substantially improved the analysis of dynamic scenes from monocular videos. However, despite their strong generalization capabilities, these models often lack 3D consistency, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haoran Zhou , Gim Hee Lee

4D generation, or dynamic 3D content generation, integrates spatial, temporal, and view dimensions to model realistic dynamic scenes, playing a foundational role in advancing world models and physical AI. However, maintaining long-chain…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuanbin Man , Ying Huang , Zhile Ren , Miao Yin

World models based on video generation demonstrate remarkable potential for simulating interactive environments but face persistent difficulties in two key areas: maintaining long-term content consistency when scenes are revisited and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tianxing Xu , Zixuan Wang , Guangyuan Wang , Li Hu , Zhongyi Zhang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang

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

Novel view synthesis of dynamic scenes is becoming important in various applications, including augmented and virtual reality. We propose a novel 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) algorithm for dynamic scenes from casually recorded monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Mijeong Kim , Jongwoo Lim , Bohyung Han

Mechanical metamaterials represent an innovative class of artificial structures, distinguished by their extraordinary mechanical characteristics, which are beyond the scope of traditional natural materials. The use of deep generative models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Zihan Wang , Anindya Bhaduri , Hongyi Xu , Liping Wang