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We address the challenge of generating 3D worlds from textual descriptions. We propose SynCity, a training- and optimization-free approach, which leverages the geometric precision of pre-trained 3D generative models and the artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Paul Engstler , Aleksandar Shtedritski , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and predict the dynamic environments they inhabit. While prior work largely emphasizes generative methods for 2D image and video data, they…

While generative world models have advanced video and occupancy-based data synthesis, LiDAR generation remains underexplored despite its importance for accurate 3D perception. Extending generation to 4D LiDAR data introduces challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ao Liang , Youquan Liu , Yu Yang , Dongyue Lu , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Huaici Zhao , Wei Tsang Ooi

Existing diffusion-based 3D scene generation methods primarily operate in 2D image/video latent spaces, which makes maintaining cross-view appearance and geometric consistency inherently challenging. To bridge this gap, we present OneWorld,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sensen Gao , Zhaoqing Wang , Qihang Cao , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Jiawang Bian

Autonomous driving systems struggle with complex scenarios due to limited access to diverse, extensive, and out-of-distribution driving data which are critical for safe navigation. World models offer a promising solution to this challenge;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Haoxuan Dou , Xin Zhang , Weixuan Tang , Wei Wu

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

Yume aims to use images, text, or videos to create an interactive, realistic, and dynamic world, which allows exploration and control using peripheral devices or neural signals. In this report, we present a preview version of \method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Shaoheng Lin , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Wenshuo Peng , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Mingmin Chi , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiehui Huang , Yuechen Zhang , Xu He , Yuan Gao , Zhi Cen , Bin Xia , Yan Zhou , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jiaya Jia

Interactive 3D scene generation from a single image has gained significant attention due to its potential to create immersive virtual worlds. However, a key challenge in current 3D generation methods is the limited explorability, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Chaojun Ni , Jie Li , Haoyun Li , Hengyu Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guosheng Zhao , Boyuan Wang , Chenxin Li , Guan Huang , Wenjun Mei

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Graphs are ubiquitous real-world data structures, and generative models that approximate distributions over graphs and derive new samples from them have significant importance. Among the known challenges in graph generation tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Wataru Kawai , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Generating 3D worlds from text is a highly anticipated goal in computer vision. Existing works are limited by the degree of exploration they allow inside of a scene, i.e., produce streched-out and noisy artifacts when moving beyond central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

We propose Infinite-World, a robust interactive world model capable of maintaining coherent visual memory over 1000+ frames in complex real-world environments. While existing world models can be efficiently optimized on synthetic data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ruiqi Wu , Xuanhua He , Meng Cheng , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xunliang Cai , Xiaoming Wei , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

3D occupancy prediction is important for autonomous driving due to its comprehensive perception of the surroundings. To incorporate sequential inputs, most existing methods fuse representations from previous frames to infer the current 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sicheng Zuo , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The visual world we sense, interpret and interact everyday is a complex composition of interleaved physical entities. Therefore, it is a very challenging task to generate vivid scenes of similar complexity using computers. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Mehmet Ozgur Turkoglu , William Thong , Luuk Spreeuwers , Berkay Kicanaoglu

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

Autonomous driving promises transformative improvements to transportation, but building systems capable of safely navigating the unstructured complexity of real-world scenarios remains challenging. A critical problem lies in effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Anthony Hu , Lloyd Russell , Hudson Yeo , Zak Murez , George Fedoseev , Alex Kendall , Jamie Shotton , Gianluca Corrado