Shougao Zhang

Shougao Zhang, Mengqi Zhou, Yuxi Wang et al.

Urban areas, as the primary human habitat in modern civilization, accommodate a broad spectrum of social activities. With the surge of embodied intelligence, recent years have witnessed an increasing presence of physical agents in urban areas, such as autonomous vehicles and delivery robots. As a result, practitioners significantly value crafting authentic, simulation-ready 3D cities to facilitate the training and verification of such agents. However, this task is quite challenging. Current generative methods fall short in either diversity, controllability, or fidelity. In this work, we resort to the procedural content generation (PCG) technique for high-fidelity generation. It assembles superior assets according to empirical rules, ultimately leading to industrial-grade outcomes. To ensure diverse and self contained creation, we design a management protocol to accommodate extensive PCG plugins with distinct functions and interfaces. Based on this unified PCG library, we develop a multi-agent framework to transform multi-modal instructions, including OSM, semantic maps, and satellite images, into executable programs. The programs coordinate relevant plugins to construct the 3D city consistent with the control condition. A visual feedback scheme is introduced to further refine the initial outcomes. Our method, named CityX, demonstrates its superiority in creating diverse, controllable, and realistic 3D urban scenes. The synthetic scenes can be seamlessly deployed as a real-time simulator and an infinite data generator for embodied intelligence research. Our project page: https://cityx-lab.github.io.

Wentang Chen, Shougao Zhang, Yiman Zhang et al.

Generating controllable and interactive indoor scenes is fundamental to applications in game development, architectural visualization, and embodied AI training. Yet existing approaches either handle a narrow range of input modalities or rely on stochastic processes that hinder controllability. To overcome these limitations, we introduce RoomPilot, a unified framework that parses diverse multi-modal inputs--textual descriptions or CAD floor plans--into an Indoor Domain-Specific Language (IDSL) for indoor structured scene generation. The key insight is that a well-designed IDSL can act as a shared semantic representation, enabling coherent, high-quality scene synthesis from any single modality while maintaining interaction semantics. In contrast to conventional procedural methods that produce visually plausible but functionally inert layouts, RoomPilot leverages a curated dataset of interaction-annotated assets to synthesize environments exhibiting realistic object behaviors. Extensive experiments further validate its strong multi-modal understanding, fine-grained controllability in scene generation, and superior physical consistency and visual fidelity, marking a significant step toward general-purpose controllable 3D indoor scene generation.

Mengqi Zhou, Yuxi Wang, Jun Hou et al.

Developing comprehensive explicit world models is crucial for understanding and simulating real-world scenarios. Recently, Procedural Controllable Generation (PCG) has gained significant attention in large-scale scene generation by enabling the creation of scalable, high-quality assets. However, PCG faces challenges such as limited modular diversity, high expertise requirements, and challenges in managing the diverse elements and structures in complex scenes. In this paper, we introduce a large-scale scene generation framework, SceneX, which can automatically produce high-quality procedural models according to designers' textual descriptions. Specifically, the proposed method comprises two components, PCGHub and PCGPlanner. The former encompasses an extensive collection of accessible procedural assets and thousands of hand-craft API documents to perform as a standard protocol for PCG controller. The latter aims to generate executable actions for Blender to produce controllable and precise 3D assets guided by the user's instructions. Extensive experiments demonstrated the capability of our method in controllable large-scale scene generation, including nature scenes and unbounded cities, as well as scene editing such as asset placement and season translation.