arXiv:2609.14462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interactive video world models must maintain broad scene context under camera motion while producing high-fidelity observations with low latency. Exist...
By Jiaming Tan, Mingliang Zhai, Zhen Li, Yuwei Wu, Chuanhao Li, Kaipeng Zhang
arXiv:2607. 00832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A single panorama captures the full visual sphere from one camera center, yet confines users to looking around in place without enabling true scene exploration.
By Zhenjia Li, Jinrang Jia, Yifeng Shi
We present MoVerse, a real-time video world model that creates an interactively navigable scene from a single narrow-field-of-view image. This setting is challenging because the input observes only a small fraction of the environment, while interactive roaming requires a complete surrounding world, persistent geometry, controllable camera motion, and temporally coherent high-fidelity observations.
arXiv:2607. 18367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike conventional video game development, which relies on labor-intensive pipelines for asset production, animation, physics, and programming, video world models generate interactive environments from user inputs instantly.
By AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li, Yifan Zhan, Yongtao Ge, Yuanyang Yin, Jiaming Tan, Kang He, Liaoyuan Fan, Mingliang Zhai, Ruicong Liu, Xiaojie Xu, Xuangeng Chu, Zhen Li, Zhengyuan Lin, Zhixiang Wang, Zian Meng, Zihui Gao
arXiv:2608.22039v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a cornerstone of 3D perception, yet current methods often fail when applied to complex videos involving challenging came...
By Sara Sabour, Linyi Jin, Richard Tucker, Amir Hertz, Marcus Brubaker, Saurabh Saxena, Junhwa Hur, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Deqing Sun, David J. Fleet, Richard Szeliski, Noah Snavely
arXiv:2512.22819v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Panoramic depth estimation captures the complete 360$^\circ$ scene geometry, being essential for robotics and AR/VR applications. While perspective...
By Hualie Jiang, Ziyang Song, Zhiqiang Lou, Rui Xu, Minglang Tan
arXiv:2608.20691v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Panoramic image generation is increasingly important for immersive applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D content creation. Un...
By Derui Li, Qian Qiao, Yuhao Sun, Wenhao Guo, Peng Lu
World in World introduces a training‑free, inference‑time interface that transforms diverse control signals—such as source‑video observations, target‑view projections, geometry renderings, and retrieved states—into camera‑ and time‑labelled visual states. These states are processed by a frozen causal video model’s self‑attention, enabling tasks like camera‑controlled rerendering, long‑horizon revisiting, and human‑motion transfer without additional training. The method employs a correspondence router and evidence‑wise attention to align token identities and regulate auxiliary channel contributions during a single denoising pass.
By Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Chi Zhang
The paper introduces 4DStreamCtrl, a system that unifies camera motion, object trajectories, and depth into a single 3D point‑track representation, enabling joint control, depth editing, and motion transfer in a single forward pass. By mining in‑the‑wild video for 3D motion supervision and encoding it with a lightweight Geometric Motion Head, the authors train a causal streaming student that can generate arbitrarily long videos in just four denoising steps, achieving 20 FPS on a single high‑end GPU for 480p video. This approach outperforms prior camera‑only, 2D, and offline‑3D methods in motion‑control precision while maintaining temporal coherence over hundreds of frames, thereby enabling interactive 4D‑controllable streaming generation for the first time.
By Shiqian Li, Chenguo Lin, Zhiguang Liu, Yu Tang, Jiarong Ou, Rui Chen, Yixin Zhu
arXiv:2608.23238v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Mover360, a controllable object manipulation framework for 360{\deg} images. Unlike perspective images, 360{\deg} images in equirectangular...
By Haoyi Zhong, Fang-Lue Zhang, Andrew Chalmers, Taehyun Rhee
SolarWM is an open foundation for building interactive video world models, offering a reconfigurable multi‑source data engine that unifies 1.43 million clips from 10 datasets into a consistent, frame‑aligned format. It provides a backbone‑native adaptation framework that preserves native representations of models ranging from 5 B to 33 B parameters, and a three‑stage training recipe combining bidirectional adaptation, teacher‑forced autoregressive initialization, and distribution‑matching distillation. The resulting causal models can interact in real‑time over rollouts from minutes to hours, trained only on 5‑second sequences, and the project releases data, pipeline, recipes, weights, and framework for reproducible research.
By Junchao Huang, Guian Fang, Shengju Qian, Xianghao Kong, Zhuoran Zhao, Wei Huang, Yihua Du, Zixin Zhang, Justin Cui, Yuchao Gu, Yukang Chen, Xinting Hu, Tianyu He, Shaoshuai Shi, Zhuotao Tian, Xin Wang, Mike Zheng Shou, Li Jiang
LIFT is a unified image‑to‑video generation framework that adds Layout‑In‑Future control, letting users specify what should appear and where in a future view. It addresses the limitation of existing camera controls and text prompts by using the last‑frame layout as an explicit signal for the desired future scene, especially under large viewpoint changes. To handle sparse layout guidance, LIFT employs on‑policy self‑distillation to transfer knowledge from a dense‑layout teacher to a last‑frame‑layout student, and introduces the LIFT‑Vista dataset with large viewpoint changes and consistent layout annotations. Experiments demonstrate that LIFT improves video quality, future‑layout controllability, and camera controllability compared to other methods.
By Shengxiang Ji, Boyang Wang, Haiyang Xu, Bingnan Li, Yucheng Mao, Zeyuan Chen, Xiaojun Shan, Xiang Zhang, Gang Hua, Jianwen Xie, Zezhou Cheng, Zhuowen Tu