Image-goal visual navigation is a fundamental capability for embodied agents. Existing navigation policies efficiently predict waypoint trajectories but lack visual foresight, while navigation world models can anticipate future observations but often require costly planning rollouts.
arXiv:2608. 03244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-goal visual navigation is a fundamental capability for embodied agents.
By Changqing Zhou, Yueru Luo, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen
arXiv:2609.21379v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate traffic forecasting requires both understanding scene dynamics and synthesizing realistic future observations. Recent diffusion-based video ge...
By Trinh Tra Giang Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen Vo, Nguyen Hoai Thuong Bui, Ha Duc Bui
The paper introduces GeoNeXt, a framework that repurposes pretrained video generative models for geometry estimation by framing it as a next‑frame prediction task. Unlike prior methods that either train separate depth/normal models or fine‑tune image diffusion backbones, GeoNeXt jointly models images and geometric targets, leveraging the structured knowledge of video models for more data‑efficient learning. Experiments show zero‑shot monocular depth and surface normal estimation that outperforms existing generative approaches and rivals discriminative state‑of‑the‑art methods while using far less training data.
By Haosen Yang, Jifei Song, Zhensong Zhang, Xiatian Zhu, Jiankang Deng
CameraEditor is a new framework that transforms camera-controlled image editing into a temporal sequence prediction problem. By using video diffusion models, it incorporates a geometric perception module and dynamic reference routing to create precise visual references through dynamic panorama cropping. The method also inserts intermediate transition frames to handle large perspective shifts, maintaining content identity and spatial coherence, and is evaluated on a dataset of 5,760 instances with a benchmark of 462 test cases, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance.
By Xin Shen, Chengyou Jia, Keshuo Xing, Zifeng Zhu, Changliang Xia, Bowen Ping, Zhuohang Dang, Hangwei Qian, Minnan Luo
The paper introduces a biologically inspired framework that learns object‑centric visual representations from raw videos without human annotations or camera calibration. By using motion boundaries detected via optical flow and clustering to create pseudo‑instance masks, the method supervises a single‑image encoder with pixel‑level pairwise metric learning. Training on 195 million pseudo‑labeled frames and expanding to 421 million frames through Motion‑Verified Self‑Training, the approach yields Swin‑based encoders that outperform or match supervised and self‑supervised baselines on tasks such as monocular depth estimation, 3D object detection, 3D occupancy prediction, and end‑to‑end planning.
By Boshi Li, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaoyang Wu, Zhichao Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang