ChronoWorld: Camera-Controlled Consistent 4D World Generation via Spatiotemporal Cues and Geometric Reflections

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Authors

Xiaoyu Zhou, Dingwei Xian, Zhenyu Wang, Yajiao Xiong, Yongtao Wang, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Abstract

While existing camera-controllable video generation models can produce visually compelling sequences, preserving intrinsic 4D spatiotemporal coherence remains challenging. To address this limitation, we propose ChronoWorld, an "Observation--State--Reflection" framework that leverages spatiotemporal causal cues and reconstruction priors to generate globally consistent, free-view 4D scenes. Given a context video, we introduce a Spatiotemporal Epipolar Causal Attention mechanism that enforces multi-view epipolar constraints and temporal causality throughout the generation process. In addition, we develop a reconstruction-driven geometric reflection pipeline with a 4D retrieval strategy to enable dynamic self-assessment and correction of generated outputs, improving consistency and accuracy. Extensive experiments show that ChronoWorld achieves state-of-the-art performance in spatiotemporally consistent, cinematic-quality 4D scene generation, with strong generalization and high-fidelity geometry across diverse scenarios.