3D Scene Generation: A Survey

Beichen Wen; Fangzhou Hong; Haozhe Xie; Zhaoxi Chen; Ziwei Liu

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3D Scene Generation: A Survey

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Pith's one-line read This survey claims that the entire field of 3D scene generation can be organized into four generation paradigms — procedural, neural 3D-based, image-based, and video-based — and that this taxonomy is complete enough to serve as a map of…

desk verdict A useful, broad survey of 3D scene generation whose four-way taxonomy is basically sound but needs a cleaner procedural/LLM boundary, a real comparison table, and search statistics before it should be cited as authoritative. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.05474 v1 pith:VAGICQK5 submitted 2025-05-08 cs.CV

Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu This is my paper · ORCID

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The reading

This survey claims that the entire body of 3D scene generation research can be organized by generation paradigm into four categories: procedural rules, neural 3D-aware generative models, 2D image generators, and video generators. The authors argue that prior surveys missed this structure because they focused on narrow subdomains or treated scenes as a side topic. A sympathetic reader would care because a valid taxonomy turns a fragmented literature into a map with clear trade-offs: each paradigm buys a different combination of realism, diversity, view consistency, controllability, and physical plausibility. The survey's comparative framework, summarized in Table 1, is intended to help researchers choose an approach and to expose where the open problems lie.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the hierarchical taxonomy built on the 'generation paradigm' — the kind of generator that turns input into a 3D scene. The four root categories are procedural, neural 3D-based, image-based, and video-based generation, each with named subcategories (e.g., rule/optimization/LLM-based; scene parameters/scene graph/semantic layout/implicit layout; holistic/iterative; two-stage/one-stage). The taxonomy carries the argument because every comparative claim in the survey, including the trade-off table and the discussion of challenges, is organized around these four buckets.

What would settle it

Take a recent 3D scene generation paper, such as an LLM-driven procedural city builder or an iterative image-outpainting pipeline, and ask whether it can be assigned to exactly one of the four categories without arbitrary choice; if a substantial share of the literature resists unique assignment, the taxonomy's completeness claim and the comparative conclusions drawn from it give way.

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Core claim

The central claim is that state-of-the-art 3D scene generation methods fall into four paradigms defined by how the scene is produced: procedural generation (rules, optimization, or LLM-guided code), neural 3D-based generation (scene parameters, scene graphs, semantic layouts, or implicit layouts fed into 3D-aware generators), image-based generation (holistic panorama synthesis or iterative extrapolation), and video-based generation (two-stage or one-stage video diffusion that animates or constructs scenes over time). Each paradigm is analyzed for its technical foundation, its characteristic 3D representation, and its comparative strengths and weaknesses. The survey further claims that this taxonomy is complete for the current literature and that the field's progress can be traced as a shift from procedural control toward learned image and video priors.

Load-bearing premise

The taxonomy assumes every published method can be cleanly sorted into exactly one of the four paradigm buckets, even though hybrid methods — LLM-controlled procedural generation, or image outpainting followed by 3D reconstruction — span the boundaries.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

If the taxonomy is correct, a researcher can locate any existing method in one of four paradigm buckets and immediately read off its expected trade-offs in realism, view consistency, controllability, and physical plausibility.
The survey's framing implies that image- and video-based paradigms currently lead in photorealism and diversity, while procedural and neural 3D-based paradigms lead in geometric and semantic consistency, so combining paradigms is a natural route to scene generation that is both realistic and 3D-coherent.
The four-way split gives the field a shared vocabulary, making it possible to compare methods across paradigms on common datasets and evaluation metrics rather than in isolated subcommunities.
The taxonomy identifies missing combinations — such as physics-aware generation and interactive generation — as open directions, which the survey lists as future work.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The taxonomy's boundaries are already softening: LLM-based procedural generation and image-outpainting-with-3D-reconstruction are hybrids that the survey must place in one bucket by fiat, so the four paradigms may be better seen as poles of a continuum than as disjoint classes.
A testable consequence of the survey's completeness claim is that any new 3D scene generation paper should be assignable to exactly one root category; a meta-analysis of recent papers could check whether assignment is unambiguous in practice.
The survey's framing suggests the next frontier is not a fifth paradigm but the convergence of video-based realism with neural 3D representations — the paper's own future-directions section points at unified perception-generation models, which would erase the current paradigm boundaries.

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Quick take: this survey is worth taking seriously. It gives the field a needed map—procedural vs. neural-3D vs. image-based vs. video-based—with subcategories that mostly fit the literature, a broad dataset table, and a sensible applications section. For a fast-moving area with scattered prior surveys, that organizational work is a real contribution, and I expect the paper to get cited as an entry point.

What it does well: coverage. It reaches well into 2025, includes Infinigen, CityDreamer, Director3D, CAT3D, WonderJourney, recent 4D methods, and a genuinely useful set of datasets and metrics. The four paradigms are not arbitrary; most methods do fall mainly into one bucket. The self-citations to the authors' SceneDreamer/CityDreamer/GaussianCity line are fine in a survey where those papers are on-topic.

Soft spots, in rough order of size. First, the procedural/LLM boundary is inconsistent. Section 2.3 defines procedural generators as operating "without learned priors," but Section 3.1.3 classifies LLM-based layout/code generation as procedural, and Section 3's opening even says procedural generation can use "prior knowledge from LLMs." An LLM is a learned statistical model; under the paper's own definition those methods are not procedural. This is a real internal contradiction, and it makes the taxonomy's completeness claim looser than stated. It is fixable by redefining the category as control-mechanism-based generation, or by splitting LLM methods into a hybrid subcategory. Second, Table 1 rates every paradigm with the same three stars on every axis. That conveys no comparison and should either be replaced with actual ratings plus a protocol, or deleted. Third, Figure 1's paper counts have no documented search protocol, so the growth trend is not independently reproducible. Minor: I noticed a few dataset-table nits (e.g., KITTI's scene count looks off), but nothing that changes the survey's utility.

None of this sinks the survey. The central argument—that the current literature sorts into four paradigms with identifiable sub-paradigms—holds up once the procedural definition is cleaned up. The missing comparison data and statistics methodology are presentation problems, not deep flaws.

I'd send it to peer review. The field needs this reference, and a serious referee can push the authors to fix the definitions and remove or substantiate Table 1. I'd also bring it to a reading group: it's a fast way to get everyone up to speed, and the taxonomy debate is genuinely useful for framing new work.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This manuscript surveys 3D scene generation for computer vision and graphics, proposing a hierarchical taxonomy of four generation paradigms: procedural generation, neural 3D-based generation, image-based generation, and video-based generation. It reviews core 3D scene representations (voxel grids, point clouds, meshes, neural fields, 3D Gaussians, image sequences) and generative models, then organizes representative methods under the four paradigms with subcategories. It also surveys datasets, evaluation metrics and benchmarks, downstream applications (scene editing, human-scene interaction, embodied AI, robotics, autonomous driving), and challenges and future directions. The central claim is that the four-way taxonomy is a valid and complete organizing framework for the current literature.

Significance. If the taxonomy is made internally consistent, this survey will be a useful and current reference: it covers a large body of work through 2025, provides two large summary tables (methods in Table 2 and datasets in Table 3), and gives a helpful overview of evaluation protocols and applications. Its strengths include breadth, the dataset-to-paradigm usage mapping, and the explicit discussion of challenges. The main weaknesses are the definitional inconsistency of the central taxonomy and the lack of comparative support in Table 1, both described below.

major comments (3)

[§2.3 and §3.1.3] The definition of procedural generation in §2.3 is internally inconsistent with the classification of LLM-based methods in §3.1.3. Section 2.3 characterizes procedural generators as constructing scenes 'without learned priors' and contrasts them with models that 'learn statistical patterns,' yet §3.1.3 places LLM-based generation, which relies on large language models trained on data, under Procedural Generation, and Section 3's opening redefines procedural generation to include 'prior knowledge from LLMs.' Because an LLM is a learned statistical model on any reasonable reading, the procedural/neural boundary is not sharp: both categories now permit learned components. Since the paper's central claim is that the four paradigms organize the field 'based on their generation paradigms,' this contradiction needs to be resolved by either changing the §2.3 definition (e.g., distinguishing the control mechanism from the model class) or reassigning LLM-based methods to another paradigm.
[Table 1] Table 1 assigns exactly three stars (⋆⋆⋆) to every category on every characteristic, so it does not support the comparative claims it is invoked for. The text repeatedly references this table (e.g., §3.1 states procedural methods 'offer high efficiency and spatial consistency'; §3.2 states neural methods 'achieve high view and semantic consistency, but their controllability and efficiency remain limited'), but an all-equal rating matrix conveys no information about trade-offs. I recommend either replacing the star ratings with differentiated, justified values (with citations or a documented rubric) or removing the table and stating the trade-offs in prose.
[Figure 1 and Section 1] The survey's literature statistics and its claim to be comprehensive are not backed by a documented search or selection protocol. Figure 1 reports annual paper counts by paradigm, but the text does not state which databases were queried, which query terms were used, how duplicates or multi-paradigm papers were assigned, or what inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied. As a result, the counts cannot be reproduced and the apparent trend is not verifiable. I recommend adding a methodology subsection or appendix table describing the search protocol, the screening process, and the coding of papers into the four paradigms.

minor comments (4)

[Table 2 caption] The condition-code list in Table 2 uses 'C' for both 'constraint' and 'camera pose'; for example, Wu et al. [27] uses C as a constraint while MagicDrive [39] uses C as a camera pose, making the table ambiguous. Please use distinct codes (e.g., CO for constraint and CP for camera pose).
[Table 3] The 'Used by' codes P, N, I, V overlap with the scene-type codes I, N, U in the same table; for instance, 'I' in the 'Used by' column denotes image-based generation while 'I' in the 'Type' column denotes indoor. Consider using different letter sets or adding a clear legend to prevent confusion.
[Section 2.3] The procedural-generator update equation S_{t+1}=R(S_t,Θ) is not numbered, unlike Eq. (1) and Eq. (2); numbering it would make cross-referencing easier.
[References] The reference list has inconsistent formatting, e.g., [335] is cited only with a URL and [314] does not use the 'in' convention used by other entries; please align all references to the journal style.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the survey's taxonomy is an external literature organization, not a derivation from its own claims.

full rationale

This is a survey; its central claim is that the 3D scene generation literature can be organized into four generation paradigms. That taxonomy is applied to external, cited methods and is not derived from any equation or fitted parameter within the paper. The paper's Section 3 classification is an interpretive organization rather than a prediction, so there is no target quantity that could reduce to an input by construction. The authors' self-citations (SceneDreamer, CityDreamer, GaussianCity, etc.) appear as representative works in tables and taxonomies, but none of the survey's load-bearing organizational claims depends on the truth of those papers' unpublished results; citing one's own published, externally reviewed methods in a survey is normal scholarly practice. The procedural-vs-neural boundary issue raised by some readers (LLM-based methods classified as procedural despite Section 2.3 defining procedural generators as 'without learned priors') is a potential internal consistency or categorization-quality concern, not circularity: the taxonomy is not rendered circular by a debatable category boundary. Because the survey is self-contained against the external literature it catalogues, the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The survey introduces no fitted parameters or new entities. Its claims rest on the exhaustiveness and separability of its four-way taxonomy and on the reliability of its literature statistics and representative selections.

assumptions (3)

domain assumption All relevant 3D scene generation methods can be partitioned into four non-overlapping paradigm categories.
Section 3 states 'We classify existing methods into four categories based on their generation paradigms.' The survey does not provide a criterion for resolving hybrid cases, such as LLM-controlled procedural generation or image-based methods that end with 3D reconstruction.
domain assumption The publication statistics in Figure 1 reflect the field's growth.
Figure 1 reports annual paper counts across conferences, journals, and preprints, but the search strategy, query terms, and inclusion criteria behind the counts are not specified, so the trend cannot be independently verified.
domain assumption The described evaluation metrics and benchmarks are representative of current practice.
Section 4.2 selects metrics and benchmarks by author judgment. The survey does not demonstrate completeness or justify the selection with a systematic protocol, which is typical for surveys but still an assumption.

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3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on procedural rules offered scalability but limited diversity. Recent advances in deep generative models (e.g., GANs, diffusion models) and 3D representations (e.g., NeRF, 3D Gaussians) have enabled the learning of real-world scene distributions, improving fidelity, diversity, and view consistency. Recent advances like diffusion models bridge 3D scene synthesis and photorealism by reframing generation as image or video synthesis problems. This survey provides a systematic overview of state-of-the-art approaches, organizing them into four paradigms: procedural generation, neural 3D-based generation, image-based generation, and video-based generation. We analyze their technical foundations, trade-offs, and representative results, and review commonly used datasets, evaluation protocols, and downstream applications. We conclude by discussing key challenges in generation capacity, 3D representation, data and annotations, and evaluation, and outline promising directions including higher fidelity, physics-aware and interactive generation, and unified perception-generation models. This review organizes recent advances in 3D scene generation and highlights promising directions at the intersection of generative AI, 3D vision, and embodied intelligence. To track ongoing developments, we maintain an up-to-date project page: https://github.com/hzxie/Awesome-3D-Scene-Generation.

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**Figure 1.** Annual statistics of 3D scene generation papers in computer vision conferences, journals, and preprints. The notable rise in publications and the evolving trends in recent years highlight the need for a comprehensive survey. Note that the data for 2025 reflects papers published up until April 30th. with innovations in 3D representations like NeRF [31] and 3D Gaussians [32], neural 3D-based generation methods enhanc… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** The overall structure of our comprehensive survey. Our survey presents three core contributions: 1) a summary of key representations and generative models in 3D scene generation, 2) a hierarchical taxonomy systematically organizing intertwined papers with indepth analysis, and 3) an exploration of datasets, evaluation metrics, applications, along with an outlook on challenges and future directions. erating 3D sce… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** The paradigms of procedural methods for 3D scene generation. (a) Rule-based generation methods follow predefined rules to generate 3D scenes. (b) Optimization-based generation finds an optimized scene under different constraints. (c) LLM-based generation uses large language models (LLMs) for tasks like layout design and object selection, or to generate code that controls other generators. Note that dashed arrows de… view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: The paradigms of neural 3D-based methods for 3D scene generation. These paradigms use (a) scene parameters, (b) scene graphs, (c) semantic layouts, and (d) implicit layouts as intermediate representations to control the spatial arrangement of generated 3D scenes. These…

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The paradigms of image-based methods for 3D scene generation. (a) Holistic generation creates an entire scene image in one step. (b) Iterative generation progressively extends the scene by extrapolating a sequence of images. shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig…

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: The paradigms of video-based methods for 3D scene generation. (a) Two-stage methods employ two generators, at least one being a video generator, to synthesize multi-view videos while utilizing dynamic 3D scene representations for consistency and exploration. (b) One-s…

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