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We introduce REDO, a class-agnostic framework to REconstruct the Dynamic Objects from RGBD or calibrated videos. Compared to prior work, our problem setting is more realistic yet more challenging for three reasons: 1) due to occlusion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Zhongzheng Ren , Xiaoming Zhao , Alexander G. Schwing

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

Large-scale video generation models have demonstrated emergent physical coherence, positioning them as potential world models. However, a gap remains between contemporary "stateless" video architectures and classic state-centric world model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Luozhou Wang , Zhifei Chen , Yihua Du , Dongyu Yan , Wenhang Ge , Guibao Shen , Xinli Xu , Leyi Wu , Man Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Peiran Ren , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Ying-Cong Chen

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving has recently attracted increasing interest in unifying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with World Models to enhance decision-making and forward-looking imagination. However, existing methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Feiyang jia , Lin Liu , Ziying Song , Caiyan Jia , Hangjun Ye , Xiaoshuai Hao , Long Chen

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Autonomous driving requires reasoning about how the environment evolves and planning actions accordingly. Existing world-model-based approaches typically predict future scenes first and plan afterwards, resulting in open-loop imagination…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiqi Liu , Huan Xu , Jingyu Li , Bin Sun , Zhihui Hao , Dangen She , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

This paper presents WorldPlay, a streaming video diffusion model that enables real-time, interactive world modeling with long-term geometric consistency, resolving the trade-off between speed and memory that limits current methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Wenqiang Sun , Haiyu Zhang , Haoyuan Wang , Junta Wu , Zehan Wang , Zhenwei Wang , Yunhong Wang , Jun Zhang , Tengfei Wang , Chunchao Guo

World models can foresee the outcomes of different actions, which is of paramount importance for autonomous driving. Nevertheless, existing driving world models still have limitations in generalization to unseen environments, prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shenyuan Gao , Jiazhi Yang , Li Chen , Kashyap Chitta , Yihang Qiu , Andreas Geiger , Jun Zhang , Hongyang Li

The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

Motivated by predicting intraday trading volume curves, we consider two spatio-temporal autoregressive models for matrix time series, in which each column may represent daily trading volume curve of one asset, and each row captures…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-15 Baojun Dou , Jing He , Sudhir Tiwari , Qiwei Yao

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

Current end-to-end autonomous driving systems are fundamentally limited by a mismatch between temporal causal reasoning and global trajectory consistency. Autoregressive (AR) models capture interaction-aware temporal dependencies via causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiyang Wang , Xinlin Wang , Tingguang Zhou , Gong Chen , Xingtai Gui , Zhi Xu , Xiaolei Wu , Feiyang Tan , Hangning Zhou , Mu Yang

World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios such as autonomous driving, there commonly exists noncontrollable dynamics independent of the action signals, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Recent advancements in video generation have primarily leveraged diffusion models for short-duration content. However, these approaches often fall short in modeling complex narratives and maintaining character consistency over extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Canyu Zhao , Mingyu Liu , Wen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Foundation video models produce visually impressive results, but their use in embodied AI remains limited because they are primarily trained on natural language rather than low-level control signals. This limitation is especially pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Kunyang Li , Yuzhang Shang , Mubarak Shah , Yu Tian

Video generative models are increasingly used as world models for robotics, where a model generates a future visual rollout conditioned on the current observation and task instruction, and an inverse dynamics model (IDM) converts the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruixiang Wang , Qingming Liu , Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Zhen Liu , Kui Jia

Recent advances in subject-driven image generation using diffusion models have attracted considerable attention for their remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images. Nevertheless, the potential of Visual Autoregressive (VAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xin Jiang , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Kezhou Chen , Zechao Li , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

The visual world offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models beyond language. Despite growing interest in this direction, the design space for native multimodal models remains opaque. We provide empirical clarity through…

We introduce V-AURA, the first autoregressive model to achieve high temporal alignment and relevance in video-to-audio generation. V-AURA uses a high-framerate visual feature extractor and a cross-modal audio-visual feature fusion strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ilpo Viertola , Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu