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Generative models have achieved success in producing apparently coherent 2D videos, but remain challenging in the physical world due to lack of 4D spatiotemporal scale. Typically, existing 4D generative models directly embed macro scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

The ability to automatically generate large-scale, interactive, and physically realistic 3D environments is crucial for advancing robotic learning and embodied intelligence. However, existing generative approaches often fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 ChunTeng Chen , YiChen Hsu , YiWen Liu , WeiFang Sun , TsaiChing Ni , ChunYi Lee , Min Sun , YuanFu Yang

Recent developments in 2D visual generation have been remarkably successful. However, 3D and 4D generation remain challenging in real-world applications due to the lack of large-scale 4D data and effective model design. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yuyang Zhao , Chung-Ching Lin , Kevin Lin , Zhiwen Yan , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Gim Hee Lee , Lijuan Wang

We tackle the challenge of generating the infinitely extendable 3D world -- large, continuous environments with coherent geometry and realistic appearance. Existing methods face key challenges: 2D-lifting approaches suffer from geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sikuang Li , Chen Yang , Jiemin Fang , Taoran Yi , Jia Lu , Jiazhong Cen , Lingxi Xie , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

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…

Creating immersive and playable 3D worlds from texts or images remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Existing world generation approaches typically fall into two categories: video-based methods that offer rich…

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

Dynamical systems theory and reinforcement learning view world evolution as latent-state dynamics driven by actions, with visual observations providing partial information about the state. Recent video world models attempt to learn this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhen Li , Zian Meng , Shuwei Shi , Wenshuo Peng , Yuwei Wu , Bo Zheng , Chuanhao Li , Kaipeng Zhang

Generating 3D worlds from text is a highly anticipated goal in computer vision. Existing works are limited by the degree of exploration they allow inside of a scene, i.e., produce streched-out and noisy artifacts when moving beyond central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

We introduce 3D4D, an interactive 4D visualization framework that integrates WebGL with Supersplat rendering. It transforms static images and text into coherent 4D scenes through four core modules and employs a foveated rendering strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yunhong He , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhengzhong Tu , Yanfang Ye , Lichao Sun

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

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

Interactive world models continually generate video by responding to a user's actions, enabling open-ended generation capabilities. However, existing models typically lack a 3D representation of the environment, meaning 3D consistency must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Samuel Garcin , Thomas Walker , Steven McDonagh , Tim Pearce , Hakan Bilen , Tianyu He , Kaixin Wang , Jiang Bian

Recent advances in driving-scene generation and reconstruction have demonstrated significant potential for enhancing autonomous driving systems by producing scalable and controllable training data. Existing generation methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ziyue Zhu , Zhanqian Wu , Zhenxin Zhu , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wan , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Jin Xie , jian Yang

Continual learning refers to the ability of humans and animals to incrementally learn over time in a given environment. Trying to simulate this learning process in machines is a challenging task, also due to the inherent difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Lapo Faggi , Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci

Egocentric interactive world models are essential for augmented reality and embodied AI, where visual generation must respond to user input with low latency, geometric consistency, and long-term stability. We study egocentric interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuxi Wang , Wenqi Ouyang , Tianyi Wei , Yi Dong , Zhiqi Shen , Xingang Pan

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

We present 4DNeX, the first feed-forward framework for generating 4D (i.e., dynamic 3D) scene representations from a single image. In contrast to existing methods that rely on computationally intensive optimization or require multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhaoxi Chen , Tianqi Liu , Long Zhuo , Jiawei Ren , Zeng Tao , He Zhu , Fangzhou Hong , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Unbounded 3D world generation is emerging as a foundational task for scene modeling in computer vision, graphics, and robotics. In this work, we present WorldFlow3D, a novel method capable of generating unbounded 3D worlds. Building upon a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amogh Joshi , Julian Ost , Felix Heide

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