arXiv:2609.19142v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: World models endow perceptual systems with the ability to predict how scenes evolve under interaction. They are most beneficial when trained on diverse...
By Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Kaifeng Zhang, Adam Hung, Bowen Wen, Stan Birchfield, Yunzhu Li, Deva Ramanan, Jeffrey Ichnowski
World models endow perceptual systems with the ability to predict how scenes evolve under interaction. They are most beneficial when trained on diverse volumes of data, to instill a rich prior into do...
Track2Art is a motion‑centric framework that recovers articulated object models from RGB‑D interaction videos by lifting 2D point tracks into 3D trajectories. It groups these trajectories into rigid‑part hypotheses and uses learned‑analytic reasoning to infer directed kinematic relations, joint types, and joint geometry. On the PartNet‑Mobility benchmark, it achieves 0.695 Point IoU and 0.410 end‑to‑end J@20 without requiring ground‑truth part counts or test‑time optimization.
By Xiaotong Li, Yixiong Jing, Junsheng Ding, Weihang Li, Benjamin Busam, Guangming Wang, Brian Sheil
The paper introduces a biologically inspired framework that learns object‑centric visual representations from raw videos without human annotations or camera calibration. By using motion boundaries detected via optical flow and clustering to create pseudo‑instance masks, the method supervises a single‑image encoder with pixel‑level pairwise metric learning. Training on 195 million pseudo‑labeled frames and expanding to 421 million frames through Motion‑Verified Self‑Training, the approach yields Swin‑based encoders that outperform or match supervised and self‑supervised baselines on tasks such as monocular depth estimation, 3D object detection, 3D occupancy prediction, and end‑to‑end planning.
By Boshi Li, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaoyang Wu, Zhichao Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang
arXiv:2609.27675v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Understanding articulated objects is fundamental for robotic interaction, requiring accurate rigid-part discovery and the recovery of their kinemat...
By Xiaotong Li, Yixiong Jing, Junsheng Ding, Weihang Li, Benjamin Busam, Guangming Wang, Brian Sheil
TAPVid-MV is a new benchmark for tracking any point in 3D across multiple synchronized camera views. It comprises 284 sequences, 1,142 calibrated camera streams, and 109,769 point tracks, covering indoor and outdoor domains and derived from various modalities such as depth, LiDAR, SLAM, and simulation. The dataset is visually verified, and evaluation shows that current multi‑view trackers do not consistently outperform monocular trackers, highlighting geometry recovery as a key bottleneck.
By Skanda Koppula, Frano Rajic, Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman, Yi Yang, Ignacio Rocco, Jeet Thakwani, Rishabh Kabra, Andrew Zisserman, Joao Carreira, Siyu Tang, Carl Doersch, Gabriel Brostow
arXiv:2607. 17097v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) synthesis is a cornerstone for animation production and embodied AI.
By Lingwei Dang, Juntong Li, Zonghan Li, Hongwen Zhang, Liang An, Wei Min, Yebin Liu, Qingyao Wu
arXiv:2609.01276v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Complete 3D perception from egocentric video requires recovering the surrounding scene and the wearer's full-body motion in a shared metric frame. Exis...
By Kai Guan, Minchao Jiang, Ruichen WangLi, Wentao Zhu, Lei Zhang
Synthesizing a novel-view video from a monocular reference video along a target camera trajectory requires both geometric consistency and motion fidelity with respect to the reference video. Existing methods based on explicit 3D representations are limited by the accuracy of off-the-shelf reconstruction modules, which often produce inaccurate geometry for dynamic objects in monocular videos.
arXiv:2503. 24009v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation.
By Mikel Zhobro, Andreas Ren\'e Geist, Georg Martius
Real-world spatial intelligence requires agents to understand scenes from continuous video streams, where objects move, persist, disappear, and reappear over time. While recent spatial foundation models have enabled generalizable feed-forward 3D reconstruction, most streaming methods remain geometry-centric and lack temporally consistent object-level understanding.
arXiv:2609.19119v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human videos contain rich causal evidence for robot manipulation: they reveal how hand motion induces object motion and produces task-relevant changes...
By Jiaming Zhang, Homanga Bharadhwaj