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Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

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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

Spatio-temporal scene graphs provide a principled representation for modeling evolving object interactions, yet existing methods remain fundamentally frame-centric: they reason only about currently visible objects, discard entities upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rohith Peddi , Saurabh , Shravan Shanmugam , Likhitha Pallapothula , Yu Xiang , Parag Singla , Vibhav Gogate

Pretrained video diffusion models provide powerful spatiotemporal generative priors, making them a natural foundation for robotic world models. While recent world-action models jointly optimize future videos and actions, they predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhaoyang Yang , Yurun Jin , Lizhe Qi , Cong Huang , Kai Chen

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

Motion forecasting aims to predict the future trajectories of dynamic agents in the scene, enabling autonomous vehicles to effectively reason about scene evolution. Existing approaches operate under the closed-world regime and assume fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nicolas Schischka , Nikhil Gosala , B Ravi Kiran , Senthil Yogamani , Abhinav Valada

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

Understanding dynamics from visual observations is a challenging problem that requires disentangling individual objects from the scene and learning their interactions. While recent object-centric models can successfully decompose a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Ziyi Wu , Nikita Dvornik , Klaus Greff , Thomas Kipf , Animesh Garg

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

Recent advances in video generation enable a new paradigm for 3D scene creation: generating camera-controlled videos that simulate scene walkthroughs, then lifting them to 3D via feed-forward reconstruction techniques. This generative…

We introduce NeoWorld, a deep learning framework for generating interactive 3D virtual worlds from a single input image. Inspired by the on-demand worldbuilding concept in the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 (1964), our system constructs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yanpeng Zhao , Shanyan Guan , Yunbo Wang , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiaokang Yang

We introduce PerpetualWonder, a hybrid generative simulator that enables long-horizon, action-conditioned 4D scene generation from a single image. Current works fail at this task because their physical state is decoupled from their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiahao Zhan , Zizhang Li , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

Images and videos are discrete 2D projections of the 4D world (3D space + time). Most visual understanding, prediction, and generation operate directly on 2D observations, leading to suboptimal performance. We propose SeeU, a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu Yuan , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Zeeshan Nadir , Xijun Wang , Yiheng Chi , Stanley H. Chan

Although recent text-to-video generative models are getting more capable of following external camera controls, imposed by either text descriptions or camera trajectories, they still struggle to generalize to unconventional camera motions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qiucheng Wu , Handong Zhao , Zhixin Shu , Jing Shi , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Recent video-based world models have made pixel-space environments interactive at the camera level: users can navigate viewpoints while the model generates coherent visual continuations. Yet their action spaces remain incomplete: users can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bohai Gu , Taiyi Wu , Yueyang Yuan , Jian Liu , Xiaocheng Lu , Dazhao Du , Jie Zhang , Jinxiang Lai , Shuai Yang , Xiaotong Zhao , Alan Zhao , Song Guo

We introduce a framework that enables both multi-view character consistency and 3D camera control in video diffusion models through a novel customization data pipeline. We train the character consistency component with recorded volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuancheng Xu , Wenqi Xian , Li Ma , Julien Philip , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Yiwei Zhao , Ryan Burgert , Mingming He , Oliver Hermann , Oliver Pilarski , Rahul Garg , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and predict the dynamic environments they inhabit. While prior work largely emphasizes generative methods for 2D image and video data, they…

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

Generative world models have become essential data engines for autonomous driving, yet most existing efforts focus on videos or occupancy grids, overlooking the unique LiDAR properties. Extending LiDAR generation to dynamic 4D world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ao Liang , Youquan Liu , Yu Yang , Dongyue Lu , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Huaici Zhao , Wei Tsang Ooi