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OccDirector: Language-Guided Behavior and Interaction Generation in 4D Occupancy Space

Researchers have introduced OccDirector, a new framework designed to generate complex 4D occupancy dynamics for autonomous driving simulations based solely on natural language instructions. This system acts as a "scenario director," translating text scripts into physically plausible voxel movements without needing predefined geometric conditions. OccDirector utilizes a VLM-driven Spatio-Temporal MMDiT with a history-prefix anchoring strategy to maintain consistency over long interactions. The accompanying OccInteract-85k dataset and VLM-based evaluation benchmark facilitate the training and assessment of such language-driven behavior orchestration. AI

IMPACT Enables more sophisticated, language-controlled simulation environments for autonomous driving research.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel framework and dataset for AI-driven simulation.

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OccDirector: Language-Guided Behavior and Interaction Generation in 4D Occupancy Space

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhuding Liang, Tianyi Yan, Dubing Chen, Jiasen Zheng, Huan Zheng, Cheng-zhong Xu, Yida Wang, Kun Zhan, Jianbing Shen ·

    OccDirector: Language-Guided Behavior and Interaction Generation in 4D Occupancy Space

    arXiv:2604.22240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative world models increasingly rely on 4D occupancy for realistic autonomous driving simulation. However, existing generation frameworks depend on rigid geometric conditions (e.g., explicit trajectories) or simplistic attribut…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jianbing Shen ·

    OccDirector: Language-Guided Behavior and Interaction Generation in 4D Occupancy Space

    Generative world models increasingly rely on 4D occupancy for realistic autonomous driving simulation. However, existing generation frameworks depend on rigid geometric conditions (e.g., explicit trajectories) or simplistic attribute-level text, failing to orchestrate complex, se…