The second workshop on

GeoFreeNVS: Geometry-Free Novel View Synthesis and
Controllable Video Models

Location: CVPR 2026, Denver, Colorado, Room: 607

Date: 4. June 2026, 8 AM - 12:30 PM

Our workshop explores a diverse range of research topics spanning from multi-view scene synthesis to 4D generation and video diffusion models. With our workshop, we aspire to bring together researchers specializing in diverse domains and discuss the latest advances and next steps towards developing more powerful 3D and 4D generative pipelines. Topics of interest include:

  • World Models and Physical AI: Real-world simulators that generate complex, realistic, and large-scale environments based on text, image, video and/or action input.
  • Camera-Controlled Video Generation: Methods enabling precise camera movement manipulation in video synthesis, allowing for seamless translations and rotations.
  • Motion-Controlled Video Generation: Approaches capable of controlling object movement and dynamics within generated video content.
  • Large 3D & 4D Reconstruction Models: Reconstruction pipelines leveraging generative priors for improved fidelity and completion.
  • Controllable Urban Scene Generation: Next-generation simulation frameworks for autonomous vehicle testing through integrated video and spatial modeling.
  • Distillation of Video Generative Models into 3D: Techniques for knowledge transfer from temporal models to explicit spatial representations.
  • Video and 3D Editing with Generative Models:Techniques capable of editing real or synthesized videos or 3D scenes with pre-trained image or video generative models.

Schedule
8:00 - 8:30Peter Kontschieder
8:30 - 9:00Jiajun Wu
9:00 - 9:30Yilun Du
9:30 - 10:00Ning Yu
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00Vincent Sitzmann
11:00 - 11:30Aleksander Hołyński
11:30 - 12:00Gordon Wetzstein
12:00 - 12:30Katja Schwarz
Speakers
Vincent Sitzmann
Vincent Sitzmann
MIT
Aleksander Hołyński
Aleksander Hołyński
Google DeepMind
Gordon Wetzstein
Gordon Wetzstein
Stanford
Peter Kontschieder
Peter Kontschieder
Meta
Jiajun Wu
Jiajun Wu
Stanford
Yilun Du
Yilun Du
Harvard
Katja Schwarz
Katja Schwarz
Ning Yu
Ning Yu
Netflix
Organizers
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Andrea Tagliasacchi
SFU / UofT
Sherwin Bahmani
Sherwin Bahmani
UofT
Lily Goli
Lily Goli
UofT
Despoina Paschalidou
Despoina Paschalidou
NVIDIA
David Lindell
David Lindell
UofT
Konstantinos Derpanis
Konstantinos Derpanis
York University
Marcus Brubaker
Marcus Brubaker
Google DeepMind
Boyang Deng
Boyang Deng
Stanford
Haven (Haiwen) Feng
Haven (Haiwen) Feng
UC Berkeley
Qianqian Wang
Qianqian Wang
Harvard
Siyu Tang
Siyu Tang
ETH Zurich
Leonidas Guibas
Leonidas Guibas
Stanford
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