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VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent

arXiv 2609.08342 ↗First posted 8 Sep 2026cs.CV cs.CRcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

World models take multimodal inputs like text, photos, and diagrams to generate dynamic scenes in accordance with the laws of physics, thus opening a compelling application: fusing multimodal legal evidence to re-create a crime scene and re-enact how an offence could have been committed. However, feeding the raw, unorganized evidence into a world model fails in forensic use: it silently drops evidence, glosses over contradictory testimony, and produces motion that violates the evidentiary record. This paper presents VeriScene, an agent that orchestrates the world model: it reconstructs crime scenes from forensic photographs and witness statements of varying reliability, keeping every claim traceable to evidence and every motion physically plausible. VeriScene iteratively fuses the evidence into a cited narrative under an auditing loop, verifies the hypothesized dynamics via probe rollouts in the world model with corrective constraint injection, and renders the offence as a re-enactment video from a fused keyframe. On a benchmark of 25 crime scenarios across 7 physically-driven case types (139 forensic-style photographs and 65 statements with planted unreliability), VeriScene attains 0.9014 evidence coverage and 0.7217 factual consistency (0-1 scale) on the 20 test scenes, outperforming an end-to-end multimodal-LLM baseline by 20.35% in factual consistency and 34.88% in temporal coherence, while generalizing across four LLM orchestration backends at USD 1.82 per scene.

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