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Accurate prediction of driving scenes is essential for road safety and autonomous driving. Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs) are commonly employed for scene prediction due to their structured spatial representation, flexibility across sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rabbia Asghar , Wenqian Liu , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

Recent advances in large reconstruction and generative models have significantly improved scene reconstruction and novel view generation. However, due to compute limitations, each inference with these large models is confined to a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shangjin Zhai , Zhichao Ye , Jialin Liu , Weijian Xie , Jiaqi Hu , Zhen Peng , Hua Xue , Danpeng Chen , Xiaomeng Wang , Lei Yang , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Guofeng Zhang

The development of video diffusion models unveils a significant challenge: the substantial computational demands. To mitigate this challenge, we note that the reverse process of diffusion exhibits an inherent entropy-reducing nature. Given…

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Due to the complex and highly dynamic motions in the real world, synthesizing dynamic videos from multi-view inputs for arbitrary viewpoints is challenging. Previous works based on neural radiance field or 3D Gaussian splatting are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jiahao Wu , Rui Peng , Jianbo Jiao , Jiayu Yang , Luyang Tang , Kaiqiang Xiong , Jie Liang , Jinbo Yan , Runling Liu , Ronggang Wang

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

Recent work in unsupervised multi-object segmentation shows impressive results by predicting motion from a single image despite the inherent ambiguity in predicting motion without the next image. On the other hand, the set of possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sadra Safadoust , Fatma Güney

Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

Video diffusion models, trained on large-scale datasets, naturally capture correspondences of shared features across frames. Recent works have exploited this property for tasks such as optical flow prediction and tracking in a zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tianqi Zhang , Ziyi Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Weiliang Chen , Yuanhui Huang , Zhengyang Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Weather forecasting has seen a shift in methods from numerical simulations to data-driven systems. While initial research in the area focused on deterministic forecasting, recent works have used diffusion models to produce skillful ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Martin Andrae , Tomas Landelius , Joel Oskarsson , Fredrik Lindsten

We introduce a way to learn to estimate a scene representation from a single image by predicting a low-dimensional subspace of optical flow for each training example, which encompasses the variety of possible camera and object movement.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Richard Strong Bowen , Richard Tucker , Ramin Zabih , Noah Snavely

Novel view synthesis from a single image has recently attracted a lot of attention, and it has been primarily advanced by 3D deep learning and rendering techniques. However, most work is still limited by synthesizing new views within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xuanchi Ren , Xiaolong Wang

Understanding the evolution of 3D scenes is important for effective autonomous driving. While conventional methods mode scene development with the motion of individual instances, world models emerge as a generative framework to describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lening Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yilong Ren , Han Jiang , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu , Jiwen Lu

Seamlessly moving objects within a scene is a common requirement for image editing, but it is still a challenge for existing editing methods. Especially for real-world images, the occlusion situation further increases the difficulty. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Siyu Liu , Zheng Lin , Chun-Le Guo , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Chongyi Li

Mesh models have become increasingly accessible for numerous cities; however, the lack of realistic textures restricts their application in virtual urban navigation and autonomous driving. To address this, this paper proposes MeSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xuyang Chen , Zhijun Zhai , Kaixuan Zhou , Zengmao Wang , Jianan He , Dong Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , mingwei Sun , Rüdiger Westermann , Konrad Schindler , Liqiu Meng

Diffusion models have quickly risen in popularity for their ability to model complex distributions and perform effective posterior sampling. Unfortunately, the iterative nature of these generative models makes them computationally expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Oisín Nolan , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer