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World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to generate safe and plausible planning policies from raw sensor input. Driving world models have shown great potential in learning rich representations by predicting the future evolution of a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingtai Gui , Meijie Zhang , Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

We introduce WorldSense, the first benchmark to assess the multi-modal video understanding, that simultaneously encompasses visual, audio, and text inputs. In contrast to existing benchmarks, our WorldSense has several features:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jack Hong , Shilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

Recent advances in generative foundational models, often termed "world models," have propelled interest in applying them to critical tasks like robotic planning and autonomous system training. For reliable deployment, these models must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Jim Solomon , Ayush Agrawal , Pranay Boreddy , Shruti Satya Narayana , Yunhao Ba , Alex Wong , Celso M de Melo , Achuta Kadambi

Driving world models serve as a pivotal technology for autonomous driving by simulating environmental dynamics. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on future scene generation, often overlooking comprehensive 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xiwu Chen , Feiyang Tan , Dingyuan Zhang , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiang Bai

Stereoscopic, head-tracked display systems can show users realistic, world-locked virtual objects and environments. However, discrepancies between the rendering pipeline and physical viewing conditions can lead to perceived instability in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Phillip Guan , Eric Penner , Joel Hegland , Benjamin Letham , Douglas Lanman

Existing world models for autonomous driving struggle with long-horizon generation and generalization to challenging scenarios. In this work, we develop a model using simple design choices, and without additional supervision or sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Arian Mousakhan , Sudhanshu Mittal , Silvio Galesso , Karim Farid , Thomas Brox

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

Autonomous driving systems struggle with complex scenarios due to limited access to diverse, extensive, and out-of-distribution driving data which are critical for safe navigation. World models offer a promising solution to this challenge;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Haoxuan Dou , Xin Zhang , Weixuan Tang , Wei Wu

Recent advancements in video generation have substantially improved visual quality and temporal coherence, making these models increasingly appealing for applications such as autonomous driving, particularly in the context of driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Julian Schmidt , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

Simulation frameworks have been key enablers for the development and validation of autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods struggle to comprehensively address the autonomy-oriented requirements of balancing: (i) dynamical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tanmay Vilas Samak , Chinmay Vilas Samak , Bing Li , Venkat Krovi

World models have demonstrated superiority in autonomous driving, particularly in the generation of multi-view driving videos. However, significant challenges still exist in generating customized driving videos. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Guosheng Zhao , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Xinze Chen , Guan Huang , Xiaoyi Bao , Xingang Wang

The open-source model ecosystem now contains hundreds of thousands of pretrained models, yet picking the best model for a new dataset is increasingly infeasible: new models and unbenchmarked datasets emerge continuously, leaving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rui Cai , Weijie Jacky Mo , Xiaofei Wen , Qiyao Ma , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Muhao Chen , Zhe Zhao

Internal world models (WMs) enable agents to understand the world's state and predict transitions, serving as the basis for advanced deliberative reasoning. Recent large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as OpenAI o3, GPT-4o and Gemini,…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a critical component for self-driving vehicles. They achieve impressive performance by reaping information from high amounts of labeled data. Yet, the full complexity of the real world cannot be encapsulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Julien Rebut , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez

Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, reasoning, and action. Yet current research still lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jianjie Fang , Yingshan Lei , Qin Wan , Ziyou Wang , Yuchao Huang , Yongyan Xu , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

Recent advancements in driving world models enable controllable generation of high-quality RGB videos or multimodal videos. Existing methods primarily focus on metrics related to generation quality and controllability. However, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zeng , Zhanqian Wu , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaobao Wei , Xiangyu Guo , Zhenxin Zhu , Kalok Ho , Lijun Zhou , Bohan Zeng , Ming Lu , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wentao Zhang

A world model is an internal model that simulates how the world evolves. Given past observations and actions, it predicts the future physical state of both the embodied agent and its environment. Accurate world models are essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zaishuo Xia , Yukuan Lu , Xinyi Li , Yifan Xu , Yubei Chen

Autonomous driving technologies have achieved significant advances in recent years, yet their real-world deployment remains constrained by data scarcity, safety requirements, and the need for generalization across diverse environments. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 A. Humnabadkar , A. Sikdar , B. Cave , H. Zhang , N. Bessis , A. Behera

Scalable and reliable evaluation is increasingly critical in the end-to-end era of autonomous driving, where vision--language--action (VLA) policies directly map raw sensor streams to driving actions. Yet, current evaluation pipelines still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chaoda Zheng , Sean Li , Jinhao Deng , Zhennan Wang , Shijia Chen , Liqiang Xiao , Ziheng Chi , Hongbin Lin , Kangjie Chen , Boyang Wang , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu