Summary of Occsora: 4d Occupancy Generation Models As World Simulators For Autonomous Driving, by Lening Wang et al.
OccSora: 4D Occupancy Generation Models as World Simulators for Autonomous Driving
by Lening Wang, Wenzhao Zheng, Yilong Ren, Han Jiang, Zhiyong Cui, Haiyang Yu, Jiwen Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel framework, OccSora, to simulate the evolution of 3D scenes for autonomous driving. Unlike conventional methods that model individual instances, OccSora employs a diffusion-based approach to generate 4D occupancy representations. The proposed method leverages a 4D scene tokenizer to obtain compact spatial-temporal representations and learns a diffusion transformer to conditionally generate 4D occupancy based on trajectory prompts. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of OccSora by generating high-quality 16-second videos with authentic 3D layout and temporal consistency using the nuScenes dataset. This world simulator has the potential to serve as a decision-making tool for autonomous driving, providing insights into spatial and temporal distributions of driving scenes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine a computer program that can create realistic 3D simulations of driving scenes, like what you would see in a video game. This is important for self-driving cars because it helps them understand the world around them. Most current methods are not good at modeling long-term changes, so this paper proposes a new approach called OccSora. It uses a special way of representing 3D space and time to generate these simulations. The program can create realistic videos that show how the scene changes over time, like cars moving or buildings being constructed. This technology has the potential to help self-driving cars make better decisions by providing them with more information about their surroundings. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Tokenizer » Transformer
