The first workshop on

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

Location: ICCV 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii

Date: 19. October 2025, Full Day

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
8:45 - 9:00Ali Eslami
9:00 - 9:30Robin Rombach
9:30 - 10:00Ruiqi Gao
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00Arash Vahdat
11:00 - 11:30Andrea Vedaldi
11:30 - 12:00Zan Gojcic
12:00 - 13:00Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30Noah Snavely
13:30 - 14:00Sergey Tulyakov
14:00 - 14:30Jiatao Gu
14:30 - 15:00Yinghao Xu
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00Jamie Shotton
16:00 - 16:30Agrim Gupta
16:30 - 17:00Anastasis Germanidis
17:00 - 17:30Hanzi Mao
17:30 - 18:00Matthias Nießner
Speakers
Ruiqi Gao
Google DeepMind
Robin Rombach
Black Forest Labs
Agrim Gupta
Google DeepMind
Arash Vahdat
NVIDIA
Anastasis Germanidis
Runway
Sergey Tulyakov
Snap Inc.
Hanzi Mao
NVIDIA
Andrea Vedaldi
Oxford
Jiatao Gu
Apple
Noah Snavely
Cornell Tech
Jamie Shotton
Wayve
Ali Eslami
Google DeepMind
Matthias Nießner
TUM
Zan Gojcic
NVIDIA
Yinghao Xu
Stanford
Organizers
Andrea Tagliasacchi
SFU / UofT
Sherwin Bahmani
UofT
Despoina Paschalidou
NVIDIA
David Lindell
UofT
Konstantinos Derpanis
York University
Marcus Brubaker
Google DeepMind
Boyang Deng
Stanford
Haven (Haiwen) Feng
MPI
Qianqian Wang
UC Berkeley
Siyu Tang
ETH Zurich
Leonidas Guibas
Stanford
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