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Modern world models require costly and time-consuming collection of large video datasets with action demonstrations by people or by environment-specific agents. To simplify training, we focus on using many virtual environments for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nedko Savov , Naser Kazemi , Mohammad Mahdi , Danda Pani Paudel , Xi Wang , Luc Van Gool

Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

Advancements in deep neural networks have contributed to near perfect results for many computer vision problems such as object recognition, face recognition and pose estimation. However, human action recognition is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Asanka G. Perera , Yee Wei Law , Titilayo T. Ogunwa , Javaan Chahl

Evaluating robot control policies is difficult: real-world testing is costly, and handcrafted simulators require manual effort to improve in realism and generality. We propose a world-model-based policy evaluation environment (WorldGym), an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Julian Quevedo , Ansh Kumar Sharma , Yixiang Sun , Varad Suryavanshi , Percy Liang , Sherry Yang

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception systems require more than simply seeing, via e.g., object detection or scene segmentation. They need a holistic understanding of what is happening within the scene for safe interaction with other road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Salman Khan , Izzeddin Teeti , Reza Javanmard Alitappeh , Mihaela C. Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Gurkirt Singh , Andrew Bradley , Fabio Cuzzolin

Accurate modeling and simulation of mobile networks are essential for enabling intelligent and cost-effective network optimization. In this paper, we propose MobiWorld, a generative world model designed to support high-fidelity and flexible…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haoye Chai , Yuan Yuan , Yong Li

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

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

Understanding the behavior of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents -particularly as task and agent sophistication increase- requires more than simple comparison of reward curves, yet standard methods for behavioral analysis remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Riley Simmons-Edler , Ryan P. Badman , Felix Baastad Berg , Raymond Chua , John J. Vastola , Joshua Lunger , William Qian , Kanaka Rajan

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

We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Joel Kronander , Magnus Wrenninge , Jonas Unger

Video world models have shown immense promise for interactive simulation and entertainment, but current systems still struggle with two important aspects of interactivity: user control over the environment for reproducible, editable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryan Po , David Junhao Zhang , Amir Hertz , Gordon Wetzstein , Neal Wadhwa , Nataniel Ruiz

Camera Traps (or Wild Cams) enable the automatic collection of large quantities of image data. Biologists all over the world use camera traps to monitor biodiversity and population density of animal species. The computer vision community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Sara Beery , Dan Morris , Pietro Perona

To solve tasks in complex environments, robots need to learn from experience. Deep reinforcement learning is a common approach to robot learning but requires a large amount of trial and error to learn, limiting its deployment in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Philipp Wu , Alejandro Escontrela , Danijar Hafner , Ken Goldberg , Pieter Abbeel

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

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising basis for such simulators because they can generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pu Zhao , Juyi Lin , Timothy Rupprecht , Arash Akbari , Chence Yang , Rahul Chowdhury , Elaheh Motamedi , Arman Akbari , Yumei He , Chen Wang , Geng Yuan , Weiwei Chen , Yanzhi Wang

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

We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation. TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between mobile agents and objects in rich 3D environments. Unique…

Recent advances in video generation have spurred the development of world models capable of simulating 3D-consistent environments and interactions with static objects. However, a significant limitation remains in their ability to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Anmol Agarwal , Pranay Meshram , Sumer Singh , Saurav Suman , Andrew Lapp , Shahbuland Matiana , Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier