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Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

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

World models envision potential future states based on various ego actions. They embed extensive knowledge about the driving environment, facilitating safe and scalable autonomous driving. Most existing methods primarily focus on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yu Yang , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Siliang Du , Wenqing Chen , Yijie Qian , Yuxiang Feng , Yong Liu

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

Humans possess a remarkable ability to mentally explore and replay 3D environments they have previously experienced. Inspired by this mental process, we present EvoWorld: a world model that bridges panoramic video generation with evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiahao Wang , Luoxin Ye , TaiMing Lu , Junfei Xiao , Jiahan Zhang , Yuxiang Guo , Xijun Liu , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

While image manipulation achieves tremendous breakthroughs (e.g., generating realistic faces) in recent years, video generation is much less explored and harder to control, which limits its applications in the real world. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Yen-Chi Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Min Sun

Verifying closed-loop vision-based control systems remains a fundamental challenge due to the high dimensionality of images and the difficulty of modeling visual environments. While generative models are increasingly used as camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yuang Geng , Zhuoyang Zhou , Zhongzheng Zhang , Siyuan Pan , Hoang-Dung Tran , Ivan Ruchkin

World models have emerged as promising neural simulators for autonomous driving, with the potential to supplement scarce real-world data and enable closed-loop evaluations. However, current research primarily evaluates these models based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hidehisa Arai , Keishi Ishihara , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yu Yamaguchi

Driving World Models (DWMs) have become essential for autonomous driving by enabling future scene prediction. However, existing DWMs are limited to scene generation and fail to incorporate scene understanding, which involves interpreting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Sifan Tu , Xiwu Chen , Yikang Ding , Dingyuan Zhang , Feiyang Tan , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiang Bai

In recent years, 3D generation has made great strides in both academia and industry. However, generating 3D scenes from a single RGB image remains a significant challenge, as current approaches often struggle to ensure both object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiang Tang , Ruotong Li , Xiaopeng Fan

Due to the difficulty of acquiring extensive real-world data, robot simulation has become crucial for parallel training and sim-to-real transfer, highlighting the importance of scalable simulated robotic tasks. Foundation models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Feng Chen , Botian Xu , Pu Hua , Peiqi Duan , Yanchao Yang , Yi Ma , Huazhe Xu

Photorealistic 3D scene generation is challenging due to the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality real-world 3D datasets and complex workflows requiring specialized expertise for manual modeling. These constraints often result in slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Clément Jambon , Changwoon Choi , Dongsu Zhang , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Young Min Kim

Scalability in terms of object density in a scene is a primary challenge in unsupervised sequential object-oriented representation learning. Most of the previous models have been shown to work only on scenes with a few objects. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jindong Jiang , Sepehr Janghorbani , Gerard de Melo , Sungjin Ahn

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting(3DGS) have significantly improved semantic scene understanding, enabling natural language queries to localize objects within a scene. However, existing methods primarily focus on embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xihan Wang , Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

3D open-world classification is a challenging yet essential task in dynamic and unstructured real-world scenarios, requiring both open-category and open-pose recognition. To address these challenges, recent wisdom often takes sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Xinzhe Xia , Weiguang Zhao , Yuyao Yan , Guanyu Yang , Rui Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Xi Yang

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

This report presents a unified technical system addressing the two core capabilities of world models for autonomous driving: world representation and world generation. For world representation, we propose WorldRec, a feed-forward…

Video diffusion models have rich world priors, but their use in spatial tasks is limited by poor control, spatial-temporal inconsistent results, and entangled scene-camera dynamics. Current approaches, such as per-task fine-tuning or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chenxi Song , Yanming Yang , Tong Zhao , Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang

Recent advancements in generative models have provided promising solutions for synthesizing realistic driving videos, which are crucial for training autonomous driving perception models. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Wu , Xi Guo , Weixuan Tang , Tingxuan Huang , Chiyu Wang , Dongyue Chen , Chenjing Ding

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