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World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

3D world generation is essential for applications such as immersive content creation or autonomous driving simulation. Recent advances in 3D world generation have shown promising results; however, these methods are constrained by grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jaeyoung Chung , Suyoung Lee , Jianfeng Xiang , Jiaolong Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

We introduce a recipe for generating immersive 3D worlds from a single image by framing the task as an in-context learning problem for 2D inpainting models. This approach requires minimal training and uses existing generative models. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Katja Schwarz , Denys Rozumnyi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder

Action-conditioned robot world models generate future video frames of the manipulated scene given a robot action sequence, offering a promising alternative for simulating tasks that are difficult to model with traditional physics engines.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jai Bardhan , Patrik Drozdik , Josef Sivic , Vladimir Petrik

World-model-based imagine-then-act becomes a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet existing approaches typically support either purely image-based forecasting or reasoning over partial 3D geometry, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiaxu Wang , Yicheng Jiang , Tianlun He , Jingkai Sun , Qiang Zhang , Junhao He , Jiahang Cao , Zesen Gan , Mingyuan Sun , Qiming Shao , Xiangyu Yue

We introduce Consistent Instance Field, a continuous and probabilistic spatio-temporal representation for dynamic scene understanding. Unlike prior methods that rely on discrete tracking or view-dependent features, our approach disentangles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Junyi Wu , Van Nguyen Nguyen , Benjamin Planche , Jiachen Tao , Changchang Sun , Zhongpai Gao , Zhenghao Zhao , Anwesa Choudhuri , Gengyu Zhang , Meng Zheng , Feiran Wang , Terrence Chen , Yan Yan , Ziyan Wu

We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Prafull Sharma , Ayush Tewari , Yilun Du , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann

Recent advancements in diffusion models have set new benchmarks in image and video generation, enabling realistic visual synthesis across single- and multi-frame contexts. However, these models still struggle with efficiently and explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qihang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Miguel Angel Bautista , Kevin Miao , Alexander Toshev , Joshua Susskind , Jiatao Gu

State-of-the-art video generation models produce remarkable photorealism, but they lack the precise control required to align generated content with specific scene requirements. Furthermore, without an underlying explicit geometry, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dana Cohen-Bar , Ido Sobol , Raphael Bensadoun , Shelly Sheynin , Oran Gafni , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit Zohar

We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time. With a single image at inference time, our novel framework allows the user to move objects in 3D while generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Christian Theobalt , Sergey Tulyakov , Vladislav Golyanik , Elisa Ricci

Recent video foundation models demonstrate impressive visual synthesis but frequently suffer from geometric inconsistencies. While existing methods attempt to inject 3D priors via architectural modifications, they often incur high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Weijie Wang , Xiaoxuan He , Youping Gu , Yifan Yang , Zeyu Zhang , Yefei He , Yanbo Ding , Xirui Hu , Donny Y. Chen , Zhiyuan He , Yuqing Yang , Bohan Zhuang

While language models have become more capable of producing compelling language, we find there are still gaps in maintaining consistency, especially when describing events in a dynamically changing world. We study the setting of generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Alexander Gurung , Mojtaba Komeili , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Jack Urbanek

Spatial consistency is a fundamental property of the visual world and a key requirement for models that aim to understand physical reality. Despite recent advances, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to reason about 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Om Khangaonkar , Hadi J. Rad , Hamed Pirsiavash

Generalization remains the central challenge for interactive 3D scene generation. Existing learning-based approaches ground spatial understanding in limited scene dataset, restricting generalization to new layouts. We instead reprogram a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lu Ling , Yunhao Ge , Yichen Sheng , Aniket Bera

With a single eye fixation lasting a fraction of a second, the human visual system is capable of forming a rich representation of a complex environment, reaching a holistic understanding which facilitates object recognition and detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Mason Liu , Menglong Zhu , Marie White , Yinxiao Li , Dmitry Kalenichenko

We address the problem of generating a 3D-consistent, navigable environment that is spatially grounded: a simulation of a real location. Existing video generative models can produce a plausible sequence that is consistent with a text (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gene Chou , Charles Herrmann , Kyle Genova , Boyang Deng , Songyou Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Jason Y. Zhang , Noah Snavely , Philipp Henzler

Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yitong Wang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Bo Dai , Yan Lu

Recent progress in image and video synthesis has inspired their use in advancing 3D scene generation. However, we observe that text-to-image and -video approaches struggle to maintain scene- and object-level consistency beyond a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Angela Dai

Recent progress in driving video generation has shown significant potential for enhancing self-driving systems by providing scalable and controllable training data. Although pretrained state-of-the-art generation models, guided by 2D layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yishen Ji , Ziyue Zhu , Zhenxin Zhu , Kaixin Xiong , Ming Lu , Zhiqi Li , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Tong Lu

Visual storytelling involves generating a sequence of coherent frames from a textual storyline while maintaining consistency in characters and scenes. Existing autoregressive methods, which rely on previous frame-sentence pairs, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sixiao Zheng , Yanwei Fu