  Recent progress in 3D scene understanding enables scalable learning of
representations across large datasets of diverse scenes. As a consequence,
generalization to unseen scenes and objects, rendering novel views from just a
single or a handful of input images, and controllable scene generation that
supports editing, is now possible. However, training jointly on a large number
of scenes typically compromises rendering quality when compared to single-scene
optimized models such as NeRFs. In this paper, we leverage recent progress in
diffusion models to equip 3D scene representation learning models with the
ability to render high-fidelity novel views, while retaining benefits such as
object-level scene editing to a large degree. In particular, we propose DORSal,
which adapts a video diffusion architecture for 3D scene generation conditioned
on frozen object-centric slot-based representations of scenes. On both complex
synthetic multi-object scenes and on the real-world large-scale Street View
dataset, we show that DORSal enables scalable neural rendering of 3D scenes
with object-level editing and improves upon existing approaches.
