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Video-based world models have recently garnered increasing attention for their ability to synthesize diverse and dynamic visual environments. In this paper, we focus on shared world modeling, where a model generates multiple videos from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Jiacheng Wei , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Junyou Li , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

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

High-quality 3D world models are pivotal for embodied intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), underpinning applications such as AR/VR content creation and robotic navigation. Despite the established strong imaginative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yixiang Dai , Fan Jiang , Chiyu Wang , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

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

Scene-consistent video generation aims to create videos that explore 3D scenes based on a camera trajectory. Previous methods rely on video generation models with external memory for consistency, or iterative 3D reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 JiaKui Hu , Jialun Liu , Liying Yang , Xinliang Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Shuang Zeng , Yuanwei Li , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Yanye Lu

Video-to-video synthesis (vid2vid) aims for converting high-level semantic inputs to photorealistic videos. While existing vid2vid methods can achieve short-term temporal consistency, they fail to ensure the long-term one. This is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Karan Sapra , Ming-Yu Liu

To generate accurate videos, algorithms have to understand the spatial and temporal dependencies in the world. Current algorithms enable accurate predictions over short horizons but tend to suffer from temporal inconsistencies. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Wilson Yan , Danijar Hafner , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

Generating long-range, geometrically consistent video presents a fundamental dilemma: while consistency demands strict adherence to 3D geometry in pixel space, state-of-the-art generative models operate most effectively in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hanyang Kong , Xingyi Yang , Xiaoxu Zheng , Xinchao Wang

Spatially consistent long-horizon video generation aims to maintain temporal and spatial consistency along predefined camera trajectories. Existing methods mostly entangle memory modeling with video generation, leading to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yanjun Guo , Zhengqiang Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Xinyue Liang , Zhiyuan Ma , Lei Zhang

Most real-world image editing tasks require multiple sequential edits to achieve desired results. Current editing approaches, primarily designed for single-object modifications, struggle with sequential editing: especially with maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daneul Kim , Jaeah Lee , Jaesik Park

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

Recent video generators achieve striking photorealism, yet remain fundamentally inconsistent in 3D. We present WorldReel, a 4D video generator that is natively spatio-temporally consistent. WorldReel jointly produces RGB frames together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shaoheng Fang , Hanwen Jiang , Yunpeng Bai , Niloy J. Mitra , Qixing Huang

Building an efficient and physically consistent world model from limited observations is a long standing challenge in vision and robotics. Many existing world modeling pipelines are based on implicit generative models, which are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wenhao Hu , Xuexiang Wen , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Reconstructing models of the real world, including 3D geometry, appearance, and motion of real scenes, is essential for computer graphics and computer vision. It enables the synthesizing of photorealistic novel views, useful for the movie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Raza Yunus , Jan Eric Lenssen , Michael Niemeyer , Yiyi Liao , Christian Rupprecht , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll , Jia-Bin Huang , Vladislav Golyanik , Eddy Ilg

World models aim to understand, remember, and predict dynamic visual environments, yet a unified benchmark for evaluating their fundamental abilities remains lacking. To address this gap, we introduce MIND, the first open-domain closed-loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yixuan Ye , Xuanyu Lu , Yuxin Jiang , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Qiwei Liang , Jiachun Pan , Fengda Zhang , Weijia Wu , Alex Jinpeng Wang

Modeling the world can benefit robot learning by providing a rich training signal for shaping an agent's latent state space. However, learning world models in unconstrained environments over high-dimensional observation spaces such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Nitish Srivastava , Walter Talbott , Martin Bertran Lopez , Shuangfei Zhai , Josh Susskind

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

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

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu