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World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Recent advances in foundational Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have yielded significant progress. Yet, despite the remarkable visual quality of generated videos, reconstructing consistent 3D scenes from these outputs remains challenging, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yisu Zhang , Chenjie Cao , Tengfei Wang , Xuhui Zuo , Junta Wu , Jianke Zhu , Chunchao Guo

Video diffusion models are moving beyond short, plausible clips toward world simulators that must remain consistent under camera motion, revisits, and intervention. Yet spatial memory remains a key bottleneck: explicit 3D structures can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wei Yu , Runjia Qian , Yumeng Li , Liquan Wang , Songheng Yin , Sri Siddarth Chakaravarthy P , Dennis Anthony , Yang Ye , Yidi Li , Weiwei Wan , Animesh Garg

Interactive video generation has significant potential for scene simulation and video creation. However, existing methods often struggle with maintaining scene consistency during long video generation under dynamic camera control due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhang Gao , Junlin Guan , Shuhan Luo , Wenzhuo Li , Guanghuan Tan , Jiacheng Wang

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

Recent advancements in differentiable rendering and 3D reasoning have driven exciting results in novel view synthesis from a single image. Despite realistic results, methods are limited to relatively small view change. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Chris Rockwell , David F. Fouhey , Justin Johnson

Exploration is a prerequisite for learning useful behaviors in sparse-reward, long-horizon tasks, particularly within 3D environments. Curiosity-driven reinforcement learning addresses this via intrinsic rewards derived from the mismatch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lily Goli , Justin Kerr , Daniele Reda , Alec Jacobson , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Angjoo Kanazawa

In this paper, we explore the overlooked challenge of stability and temporal consistency in interactive video generation, which synthesizes dynamic and controllable video worlds through interactive behaviors such as camera movements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ying Yang , Zhengyao Lv , Tianlin Pan , Haofan Wang , Binxin Yang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Ziwei Liu , Chenyang Si

A truly interactive world model requires three key ingredients: real-time long-horizon streaming, consistent spatial memory, and precise user control. However, most existing approaches address only one of these aspects in isolation, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yicong Hong , Yiqun Mei , Chongjian Ge , Yiran Xu , Yang Zhou , Sai Bi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Mike Roberts , Matthew Fisher , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Feng Liu , Zhengqi Li , Hao Tan

Existing video generation models struggle to maintain long-term spatial and temporal consistency due to the dense, high-dimensional nature of video signals. To overcome this limitation, we propose Spatia, a spatial memory-aware video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jinjing Zhao , Fangyun Wei , Zhening Liu , Hongyang Zhang , Chang Xu , Yan Lu

This paper proposes ConsistDreamer - a novel framework that lifts 2D diffusion models with 3D awareness and 3D consistency, thus enabling high-fidelity instruction-guided scene editing. To overcome the fundamental limitation of missing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jun-Kun Chen , Samuel Rota Bulò , Norman Müller , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder , Yu-Xiong Wang

We introduce LivingWorld, an interactive framework for generating 4D worlds with environmental dynamics from a single image. While recent advances in 3D scene generation enable large-scale environment creation, most approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hyeongju Mun , In-Hwan Jin , Sohyeong Kim , Kyeongbo Kong

Language agents increasingly require persistent worlds in which they can act, remember, and learn. Existing approaches sit at two extremes: conventional web frameworks provide reliable but fixed contexts backed by databases, while fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jichen Feng , Yifan Zhang , Chenggong Zhang , Yifu Lu , Shilong Liu , Mengdi Wang

We present a unified framework capable of solving a broad range of 3D tasks. Our approach features a stateful recurrent model that continuously updates its state representation with each new observation. Given a stream of images, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Qianqian Wang , Yifei Zhang , Aleksander Holynski , Alexei A. Efros , Angjoo Kanazawa

Previous works leveraging video models for image-to-3D scene generation tend to suffer from geometric distortions and blurry content. In this paper, we renovate the pipeline of image-to-3D scene generation by unlocking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuhao Wan , Lijuan Liu , Jingzhi Zhou , Zihan Zhou , Xuying Zhang , Dongbo Zhang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Visual understanding of the world goes beyond the semantics and flat structure of individual images. In this work, we aim to capture both the 3D structure and dynamics of real-world scenes from monocular real-world videos. Our Dynamic Scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Maximilian Seitzer , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Thomas Kipf , Klaus Greff , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

Video diffusion models have recently shown promise for world modeling through autoregressive frame prediction conditioned on actions. However, they struggle to maintain long-term memory due to the high computational cost associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ryan Po , Yotam Nitzan , Richard Zhang , Berlin Chen , Tri Dao , Eli Shechtman , Gordon Wetzstein , Xun Huang

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

Action-conditioned video prediction models (often referred to as world models) have shown strong potential for robotics applications, but existing approaches are often slow and struggle to capture physically consistent interactions over…

Reconstructing physically stable 3D scenes from a single RGB image enables casual images to be converted into simulation-ready digital assets for applications such as immersive interaction and content creation. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoxuan Ma , Jiashun Wang , Nicolas Ugrinovic , Yehonathan Litman , Kris Kitani