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Genesis: Multimodal Driving Scene Generation with Spatio-Temporal and Cross-Modal Consistency

arXiv 2506.07497 ↗First posted 9 Jun 2025cs.CVcited by 22

On the map: End-to-end autonomous driving → Generative simulation for driving

Abstract (arXiv)

We present Genesis, a unified framework for joint generation of multi-view driving videos and LiDAR sequences with spatio-temporal and cross-modal consistency. Genesis employs a two-stage architecture that integrates a DiT-based video diffusion model with 3D-VAE encoding, and a BEV-aware LiDAR generator with NeRF-based rendering and adaptive sampling. Both modalities are directly coupled through a shared latent space, enabling coherent evolution across visual and geometric domains. To guide the generation with structured semantics, we introduce DataCrafter, a captioning module built on vision-language models that provides scene-level and instance-level supervision. Extensive experiments on the nuScenes benchmark demonstrate that Genesis achieves state-of-the-art performance across video and LiDAR metrics (FVD 16.95, FID 4.24, Chamfer 0.611), and benefits downstream tasks including segmentation and 3D detection, validating the semantic fidelity and practical utility of the generated data.

Key facts. Cited by 22 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Generative simulation for driving, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving. Builds on 45 of its 55 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Jun 2025.

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45 of 55 references.

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  1. 2025MiLA: Multi-view Intensive-fidelity Long-term Video Generation World Model for Autonomous Driving20 Mar
  2. 2025HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation24 Jan
  3. 2024Unleashing Generalization of End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Controllable Long Video Generation3 Jun
  4. 2024Vista: A Generalizable Driving World Model with High Fidelity and Versatile Controllability27 May
  5. 2024DriveDreamer-2: LLM-Enhanced World Models for Diverse Driving Video Generation11 Mar
  6. 2023Driving into the Future: Multiview Visual Forecasting and Planning with World Model for Autonomous Driving29 Nov
  7. 2023Copilot4D: Learning Unsupervised World Models for Autonomous Driving via Discrete Diffusion2 Nov

Other references · 38

  1. 2021Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windowscited by 12,139
  2. 2023Visual Instruction Tuningcited by 7,869
  3. 2016PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentationcited by 5,248
  4. 2019nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous drivingcited by 4,523
  5. 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,181
  6. 2023Qwen Technical Reportcited by 3,344
  7. 2023InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Taskscited by 2,565
  8. 2019Scalability in Perception for Autonomous Driving: Waymo Open Datasetcited by 2,451
  9. 2018Occupancy Networks: Learning 3D Reconstruction in Function Spacecited by 2,041
  10. 2017VoxelNet: End-to-End Learning for Point Cloud Based 3D Object Detectioncited by 1,323
  11. 2020Lift, Splat, Shoot: Encoding Images From Arbitrary Camera Rigs by Implicitly Unprojecting to 3Dcited by 1,044
  12. 2022CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformerscited by 985
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  1. 2022Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generationcited by 961
  2. 2022Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 503
  3. 2022TransFusion: Robust LiDAR-Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection with Transformerscited by 466
  4. 2020Local Implicit Grid Representations for 3D Scenescited by 373
  5. 2022BEVFusion: A Simple and Robust LiDAR-Camera Fusion Frameworkcited by 336
  6. 2023MagicDrive: Street View Generation with Diverse 3D Geometry Controlcited by 252
  7. 2022DeepFusion: Lidar-Camera Deep Fusion for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detectioncited by 224
  8. 2023Panacea: Panoramic and Controllable Video Generation for Autonomous Drivingcited by 168
  9. 2018Revisiting Single Image Depth Estimation: Toward Higher Resolution Maps with Accurate Object Boundariescited by 145
  10. 2022TrafficGen: Learning to Generate Diverse and Realistic Traffic Scenarioscited by 106
  11. 2024UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generationcited by 106
  12. 2023Street-View Image Generation from a Bird's-Eye View Layoutcited by 102
  13. 2023BEVControl: Accurately Controlling Street-view Elements with Multi-perspective Consistency via BEV Sketch Layoutcited by 102
  14. 2023Visual Point Cloud Forecasting enables Scalable Autonomous Drivingcited by 99
  15. 2022Learning to Generate Realistic LiDAR Point Cloudscited by 93
  16. 2023WoVoGen: World Volume-aware Diffusion for Controllable Multi-camera Driving Scene Generationcited by 93
  17. 2024MagicDrive-V2: High-Resolution Long Video Generation for Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Controlcited by 92
  18. 2023Point Cloud Forecasting as a Proxy for 4D Occupancy Forecastingcited by 78
  19. 2024MagicDrive3D: Controllable 3D Generation for Any-View Rendering in Street Scenescited by 71
  20. 2024Towards Realistic Scene Generation with LiDAR Diffusion Modelscited by 69
  21. 2024LidarDM: Generative LiDAR Simulation in a Generated Worldcited by 54
  22. 2023Scenario Diffusion: Controllable Driving Scenario Generation With Diffusioncited by 47
  23. 2024DiVE: DiT-based Video Generation with Enhanced Controlcited by 31
  24. 2023DriveSceneGen: Generating Diverse and Realistic Driving Scenarios from Scratchcited by 27
  25. 2020Camera-Lidar Integration: Probabilistic sensor fusion for semantic mappingcited by 22
  26. 2025CoGen: 3D Consistent Video Generation via Adaptive Conditioning for Autonomous Drivingcited by 12

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 7; 2026: 15.

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  1. 2025DriveLaW:Unifying Planning and Video Generation in a Latent Driving Worldcited by 47
  2. 2026DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generationcited by 45
  3. 2025OmniNWM: Omniscient Driving Navigation World Modelscited by 33
  4. 2025LiDARCrafter: Dynamic 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequencescited by 17
  5. 2025Rethinking Driving World Model as Synthetic Data Generator for Perception Taskscited by 14
  6. 2026CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Drivingcited by 12
  7. 2025Register Any Point: Scaling 3D Point Cloud Registration by Flow Matchingcited by 9
  8. 2026UniDriveDreamer: A Single-Stage Multimodal World Model for Autonomous Drivingcited by 9
  9. 2026UCM: Unified Modeling of Camera Control and Memory with Time-aware Positional Encoding Warping for World Modelscited by 9
  10. 2026UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generationcited by 9
  11. 2026ParkGaussian: Surround-view 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Parkingcited by 7
  12. 2026Xiaomi Auto World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Drivingcited by 5
10 more
  1. 2026Toward Physically Consistent Driving Video World Models under Challenging Trajectoriescited by 4
  2. 2026Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
  3. 2025Learning to Generate 4D LiDAR Sequencescited by 2
  4. 2025LaGen: Towards Autoregressive LiDAR Scene Generationcited by 2
  5. 2026OmniDrive: An LLM-Choreographed Multi-Agent World Model with Unified Latent Co-Compression for Multi-View Driving Video Generationcited by 2
  6. 2026ReWorld: Representation Learning for World Action Modelscited by 2
  7. 2026RAGNav: A Retrieval-Augmented Topological Reasoning Framework for Multi-Goal Visual-Language Navigationcited by 1
  8. 2026From Seeing to Simulating: Generative High-Fidelity Simulation with Digital Cousins for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluationcited by 1
  9. 2026FrozenDrive: Zero-Shot Text-Guided Driving Scene Generation and Data Augmentation with Parameter-Free Frozen Diffusion Modelcited by 1
  10. 2026LiFi: LiDAR Generation from Multi-View Images via Geometric and Semantic Collaborative Guidancecited by 0

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  2. 2025DiVE: Efficient Multi-View Driving Scenes Generation Based on Video Diffusion Transformer
  3. 2025X-Scene: Large-Scale Driving Scene Generation with High Fidelity and Flexible Controllability
  4. 2026HelloWorld: Towards Practical Applications of Generative Driving World Models
  5. 2023DrivingDiffusion: Layout-Guided multi-view driving scene video generation with latent diffusion model
  6. 2024HoloDrive: Holistic 2D-3D Multi-Modal Street Scene Generation for Autonomous Driving
  7. 2025WorldSplat: Gaussian-Centric Feed-Forward 4D Scene Generation for Autonomous Driving
  8. 2025MoVieDrive: Urban Scene Synthesis with Multi-Modal Multi-View Video Diffusion Transformer