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most citedUrbanVideo-Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Embodied Intelligence with Video Data in Urban Spaces

17 citations · 31 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CV2026

CoDrive: Cross-Vehicle World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Trajectory Control for Cooperative Driving

Yu Meng, Baining Zhao, Junta Wu +10

Real-world driving is inherently multi-agent, yet most existing driving world models generate observations from a single ego vehicle. Independently extending them to multiple vehic…

cs.AI2026

CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training

Jianjie Fang, Xvyuan Liu, Ziyou Wang +9

World models are becoming core infrastructure for embodied intelligence, with action-conditioned video generation providing controllable predictions of how scenes evolve after agen…

cs.CV2026

SCOUT: Unlocking Enhanced Spatial Reasoning via Structured Chain-of-Thought and Multi-Objective Process Reward

Zile Zhou, Huining Yuan, Weichen Zhang +2

Existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibits a critical bottleneck in robust spatial reasoning. Recent reinforcement learning (RL) methods aim to close this gap with verifiable…

cs.RO2026

ActiveFly-Bench: Aligning Embodied Question Answering with Vision-Language-Action for Aerial Embodied Perception

Weichen Zhang, Shiquan Yu, Yinan Zhu +9

We introduce ActiveFly-Bench, the first benchmark to bridge cyberspace reasoning and physical-world interaction for UAV embodied perception. The benchmark decomposes active percept…

cs.CV2026

Uncertainty-Aware World Model for Aerial Image-Goal Navigation

Deyi Zhu, Haoyu Fan, Yinan Zhu +4

Aerial image-goal navigation requires an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to reach a target location specified by a goal image. Existing world-model-based methods rank candidate traje…

cs.RO2026

Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control

Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13

World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they provide controllable simulators in which agents can perceive, act, fo…

cs.CV2026

TetherCache: Stabilizing Autoregressive Long-Form Video Generation with Gated Recall and Trusted Alignment

Yu Meng, Xiangyang Luo, Letian Li +5

Autoregressive video diffusion models provide a natural formulation for streaming and variable-length video generation by conditioning newly generated frames on previously generate…

cs.AI2026

WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation

Shengtao Zheng, Kai Li, Weichen Zhang +5

End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation. However, existing approaches typically rely on historical observations to directly predict acti…

cs.RO2026

WorldVLN: Autoregressive World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

Baining Zhao, Jiacheng Xu, Weicheng Feng +13

Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural-language instructions through closed-loop perception and action in 3D environments. We argue that aerial V…

cs.CV2026

iWorld-Bench: A Benchmark for Interactive World Models with a Unified Action Generation Framework

Jianjie Fang, Yingshan Lei, Qin Wan +8

Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, re…

cs.AI2026

How Far Are Large Multimodal Models from Human-Level Spatial Action? A Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Embodied Navigation in Urban Airspace

Baining Zhao, Ziyou Wang, Jianjie Fang +8

Large multimodal models (LMMs) show strong visual-linguistic reasoning but their capacity for spatial decision-making and action remains unclear. In this work, we investigate wheth…

cs.AI2026

WorldMAP: Bootstrapping Vision-Language Navigation Trajectory Prediction with Generative World Models

Hongjin Chen, Shangyun Jiang, Tonghua Su +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) and generative world models are opening new opportunities for embodied navigation. VLMs are increasingly used as direct planners or trajectory predict…

cs.RO2026

Aerial World Model for Long-horizon Visual Generation and Navigation in 3D Space

Weichen Zhang, Peizhi Tang, Xin Zeng +12

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as powerful embodied agents. One of the core abilities is autonomous navigation in large-scale three-dimensional environments. Existing…

cs.CV2025

PhysFire-WM: A Physics-Informed World Model for Emulating Fire Spread Dynamics

Nan Zhou, Huandong Wang, Jiahao Li +4

Fine-grained fire prediction plays a crucial role in emergency response. Infrared images and fire masks provide complementary thermal and boundary information, yet current methods…

cs.LG2025

STeP-Diff: Spatio-Temporal Physics-Informed Diffusion Models for Mobile Fine-Grained Pollution Forecasting

Nan Zhou, Weijie Hong, Huandong Wang +6

Fine-grained air pollution forecasting is crucial for urban management and the development of healthy buildings. Deploying portable sensors on mobile platforms such as cars and bus…

cs.CV2025

FireSentry: A Multi-Modal Spatio-temporal Benchmark Dataset for Fine-Grained Wildfire Spread Forecasting

Nan Zhou, Huandong Wang, Jiahao Li +5

Fine-grained wildfire spread prediction is crucial for enhancing emergency response efficacy and decision-making precision. However, existing research predominantly focuses on coar…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Context-Aware Sentiment Forecasting via LLM-based Multi-Perspective Role-Playing Agents

Fanhang Man, Huandong Wang, Jianjie Fang +4

User sentiment on social media reveals the underlying social trends, crises, and needs. Researchers have analyzed users' past messages to trace the evolution of sentiments and reco…

cs.RO2025★ 9 cited

CityNavAgent: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Semantic Planning and Global Memory

Weichen Zhang, Chen Gao, Shiquan Yu +6

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN), requiring drones to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments, emerges as a critical embodied AI…

cs.AI2025

Embodied-R: Collaborative Framework for Activating Embodied Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models via Reinforcement Learning

Baining Zhao, Ziyou Wang, Jianjie Fang +7

Humans can perceive and reason about spatial relationships from sequential visual observations, such as egocentric video streams. However, how pretrained models acquire such abilit…

cs.CV2025★ 17 cited

UrbanVideo-Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Embodied Intelligence with Video Data in Urban Spaces

Baining Zhao, Jianjie Fang, Zichao Dai +8

Large multimodal models exhibit remarkable intelligence, yet their embodied cognitive abilities during motion in open-ended urban 3D space remain to be explored. We introduce a ben…

cs.CV2025

Open3D-VQA: A Benchmark for Comprehensive Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Model in Open Space

Weichen Zhang, Zile Zhou, Xin Zeng +7

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet their performance in open aerial environments remains underexplored. In this work, we…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

EmbodiedCity: A Benchmark Platform for Embodied Agent in Real-world City Environment

Chen Gao, Baining Zhao, Weichen Zhang +9

Embodied artificial intelligence emphasizes the role of an agent's body in generating human-like behaviors. The recent efforts on EmbodiedAI pay a lot of attention to building up m…