mlsanityData to 7 Oct 2026

SimWorld: A Unified Benchmark for Simulator-Conditioned Scene Generation via World Model

arXiv 2503.13952 ↗First posted 18 Mar 2025cs.CVcited by 3

On the map: World models → World models for autonomous driving

Abstract (arXiv)

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify datasets. However, previous work has been limited to studying image generation quality on specific public datasets. There is still relatively little research on how to build data generation engines for real-world application scenes to achieve large-scale data generation for challenging scenes. In this paper, a simulator-conditioned scene generation engine based on world model is proposed. By constructing a simulation system consistent with real-world scenes, simulation data and labels, which serve as the conditions for data generation in the world model, for any scenes can be collected. It is a novel data generation pipeline by combining the powerful scene simulation capabilities of the simulation engine with the robust data generation capabilities of the world model. In addition, a benchmark with proportionally constructed virtual and real data, is provided for exploring the capabilities of world models in real-world scenes. Quantitative results show that these generated images significantly improve downstream perception models performance. Finally, we explored the generative performance of the world model in urban autonomous driving scenarios. All the data and code will be available at https://github.com/Li-Zn-H/SimWorld.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in World models for autonomous driving, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 32 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Mar 2025.

Builds on

32 of 44 references.

Closest ancestors · 2

Same direction, newest first

  1. 2023DriveDreamer: Towards Real-world-driven World Models for Autonomous Driving18 Sep
  2. 2021MetaDrive: Composing Diverse Driving Scenarios for Generalizable Reinforcement Learning26 Sep

Other references · 30

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  2. 2015U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 19,604
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  4. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
  5. 2015Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networkscited by 9,617
  6. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 5,466
  7. 2015Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Visioncited by 5,451
  8. 2016The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understandingcited by 4,427
  9. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,290
  10. 2020Deformable DETR: Deformable Transformers for End-to-End Object Detectioncited by 3,410
  11. 2015SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detectorcited by 3,125
  12. 2016Pyramid Scene Parsing Networkcited by 2,472
18 more
  1. 2017Rethinking Atrous Convolution for Semantic Image Segmentationcited by 2,154
  2. 2016Playing for Data: Ground Truth from Computer Gamescited by 816
  3. 2019MaskGAN: Towards Diverse and Interactive Facial Image Manipulationcited by 624
  4. 2019Segmentation Transformer: Object-Contextual Representations for Semantic Segmentationcited by 573
  5. 2023End-to-end Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontierscited by 485
  6. 2022DiffusionDet: Diffusion Model for Object Detectioncited by 354
  7. 2016Virtual Worlds as Proxy for Multi-Object Tracking Analysiscited by 340
  8. 2020BiSeNet V2: Bilateral Network with Guided Aggregation for Real-time Semantic Segmentationcited by 294
  9. 2018Synscapes: A Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Street Scene Parsingcited by 105
  10. 2022CODA: A Real-World Road Corner Case Dataset for Object Detection in Autonomous Drivingcited by 100
  11. 2019Multi-Channel Attention Selection GAN with Cascaded Semantic Guidance for Cross-View Image Translationcited by 97
  12. 2023ScenarioNet: Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Traffic Scenario Simulation and Modelingcited by 60
  13. 2023How Simulation Helps Autonomous Driving:A Survey of Sim2real, Digital Twins, and Parallel Intelligencecited by 55
  14. 2023Synthetic Datasets for Autonomous Driving: A Surveycited by 48
  15. 2020Dual Attention GANs for Semantic Image Synthesiscited by 41
  16. 2024SimGen: Simulator-conditioned Driving Scene Generationcited by 34
  17. 2019Weakly Supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation in Urban Scenescited by 23
  18. 2022ProCST: Boosting Semantic Segmentation Using Progressive Cyclic Style-Transfercited by 9

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 7 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 1.

3 papers.

Similar, not cited

Close in wording, no citation either way

  1. 2024Exploring the Interplay Between Video Generation and World Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey
  2. 2026DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving
  3. 2026Xiaomi Auto World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Driving
  4. 2026HelloWorld: Towards Practical Applications of Generative Driving World Models
  5. 2026From Virtual Environments to Real-World Trials: Emerging Trends in Autonomous Driving
  6. 2026X-World: Controllable Ego-Centric Multi-Camera World Models for Scalable End-to-End Driving
  7. 2026Bridging Scene Generation and Planning: Driving with World Model via Unifying Vision and Motion Representation
  8. 2025Rethinking Driving World Model as Synthetic Data Generator for Perception Tasks