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HorizonForge: Driving Scene Editing with Any Trajectories and Any Vehicles

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Controllable driving scene generation is critical for realistic and scalable autonomous driving simulation, yet existing approaches struggle to jointly achieve photorealism and precise control. We introduce HorizonForge, a unified framework that reconstructs scenes as editable Gaussian Splats and Meshes, enabling fine-grained 3D manipulation and language-driven vehicle insertion. Edits are rendered through a noise-aware video diffusion process that enforces spatial and temporal consistency, producing diverse scene variations in a single feed-forward pass without per-trajectory optimization. To standardize evaluation, we further propose HorizonSuite, a comprehensive benchmark spanning ego- and agent-level editing tasks such as trajectory modifications and object manipulation. Extensive experiments show that Gaussian-Mesh representation delivers substantially higher fidelity than alternative 3D representations, and that temporal priors from video diffusion are essential for coherent synthesis. Combining these findings, HorizonForge establishes a simple yet powerful paradigm for photorealistic, controllable driving simulation, achieving an 83.4% user-preference gain and a 25.19% FID improvement over the second best state-of-the-art method. Project page: https://horizonforge.github.io/ .

Yifan Wang, Francesco Pittaluga, Zaid Tasneem, Chenyu You, Manmohan Chandraker, Ziyu Jiang• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Controllable driving scene generationHorizonSuite User Study
Wins (Count)456
4
Ego Car ManipulationHorizonSuite Speed Change (test)
FID39.92
4
Ego Car ManipulationHorizonSuite Lane Change (test)
FID50.33
4
Other Vehicle ManipulationHorizonSuite Other Vehicle Manipulation - Speed Change (test)
FID38.62
4
Other Vehicle ManipulationHorizonSuite Other Vehicle Manipulation - Lane Change (test)
FID44.34
4
Other Vehicle ManipulationHorizonSuite Other Vehicle Manipulation - Direction Change (test)
FID54.54
4
Overall PerformanceHorizonSuite
FID33.19
4
Vehicle InsertionHorizonSuite
FID117.5
4
Vehicle RemovalHorizonSuite
FID29.01
4
Ego Car ManipulationHorizonSuite Direction Change (test)
FID144.8
4
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