HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14729v2
• Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:58:02 GMT
• Title: HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation
• Authors: Xin Zhou, Dingkang Liang, Sifan Tu, Xiwu Chen, Yikang Ding, Dingyuan Zhang, Feiyang Tan, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai,
• Abstract summary: We present a unified Driving World Model named HERMES.<n>We seamlessly integrate 3D scene understanding and future scene evolution (generation) through a unified framework in driving scenarios.<n> HERMES achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing generation error by 32.4% and improving understanding metrics such as CIDEr by 8.0%.
• Score: 59.675030933810106
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Driving World Models (DWMs) have become essential for autonomous driving by enabling future scene prediction. However, existing DWMs are limited to scene generation and fail to incorporate scene understanding, which involves interpreting and reasoning about the driving environment. In this paper, we present a unified Driving World Model named HERMES. We seamlessly integrate 3D scene understanding and future scene evolution (generation) through a unified framework in driving scenarios. Specifically, HERMES leverages a Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representation to consolidate multi-view spatial information while preserving geometric relationships and interactions. We also introduce world queries, which incorporate world knowledge into BEV features via causal attention in the Large Language Model, enabling contextual enrichment for understanding and generation tasks. We conduct comprehensive studies on nuScenes and OmniDrive-nuScenes datasets to validate the effectiveness of our method. HERMES achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing generation error by 32.4% and improving understanding metrics such as CIDEr by 8.0%. The model and code will be publicly released at https://github.com/LMD0311/HERMES.

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