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.
PIVOT is a new multi‑trajectory dataset and evaluation framework that captures real‑world scenes with diverse camera paths, preserving both sensor‑derived measured poses and COLMAP‑optimized poses along with calibrated and optimized intrinsics. It defines three benchmark families—seen vs. unseen trajectory generalization, measured vs. optimized pose sensitivity, and calibrated vs. optimized intrinsics sensitivity—and introduces a directed pose‑space Chamfer distance to assess pose coverage. The first version of PIVOT includes five scenes recorded with a DJI Mini 4 Pro and offers an open processing and Nerfstudio‑based evaluation toolchain, revealing a consistent quality gap between held‑out and unseen trajectories and significant sensitivity to pose source and camera intrinsics.
By Mary Raymond
Point2Pose is a model‑free method for causal 6D pose tracking of multiple rigid objects using monocular RGB‑D video. It starts from sparse image points and employs a 2D point tracker to maintain long‑range correspondences, allowing instant recovery after complete occlusion. The system also incrementally builds an online Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) representation of the tracked objects and introduces a new multi‑object tracking dataset with motion‑capture ground truth.
By Tzu-Yuan Lin, Ho Jae Lee, Kevin Doherty, Yonghyeon Lee, Sangbae Kim
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...
By Longfei Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Zehao Huang, Han Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang, Si Liu
arXiv:2608.22039v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a cornerstone of 3D perception, yet current methods often fail when applied to complex videos involving challenging came...
By Sara Sabour, Linyi Jin, Richard Tucker, Amir Hertz, Marcus Brubaker, Saurabh Saxena, Junhwa Hur, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Deqing Sun, David J. Fleet, Richard Szeliski, Noah Snavely
arXiv:2608.29003v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In dynamic and unstructured environments, conventional SLAM systems generally suffer from significant accuracy degeneration due to their static assum...
By Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Guo, Wenzhen Dong, Yun-Hui Liu, Charlie C. L. Wang, Yeung Yam
GS‑Net is a lightweight plug‑and‑play module that expands sparse Structure‑from‑Motion point clouds into dense Gaussian primitives, enabling cross‑sensor view synthesis for autonomous driving. It learns a generalizable initialization for 3D Gaussian Splatting, improving rendering quality for both interpolated and extrapolated camera viewpoints. The authors introduce CARLA‑NVS, a benchmark with 12 uniformly spaced cameras, and show that GS‑Net outperforms standard 3DGS by 2.08 dB PSNR on interpolated views and 1.86 dB on extrapolated views while being 50× faster to initialize.
By Yichen Zhang, Zihan Wang, Jiali Han, Peilin Li, Jiaxun Zhang, Jianqiang Wang, Lei He, Keqiang Li
arXiv:2608. 15260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maintaining global geometric consistency is a central challenge in long-sequence 3D reconstruction, with scale drift being the most critical failure mode.
By Wei Zhang, Yihang Wu, Songhua Li, Qi Wang
The paper introduces 4DStreamCtrl, a system that unifies camera motion, object trajectories, and depth into a single 3D point‑track representation, enabling joint control, depth editing, and motion transfer in a single forward pass. By mining in‑the‑wild video for 3D motion supervision and encoding it with a lightweight Geometric Motion Head, the authors train a causal streaming student that can generate arbitrarily long videos in just four denoising steps, achieving 20 FPS on a single high‑end GPU for 480p video. This approach outperforms prior camera‑only, 2D, and offline‑3D methods in motion‑control precision while maintaining temporal coherence over hundreds of frames, thereby enabling interactive 4D‑controllable streaming generation for the first time.
By Shiqian Li, Chenguo Lin, Zhiguang Liu, Yu Tang, Jiarong Ou, Rui Chen, Yixin Zhu
arXiv:2608.27529v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Streaming 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos requires estimating camera motion and scene geometry online under bounded memory and computation...
By Jiarong Han, Jincheng Xiong, Yuzhou Liu, Linzhe Shi, Changjie Wu, Ning Guo, Mu Xu, Hang Zhang, Ming Qian
arXiv:2608. 07579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The AI City Challenge 2026 Track 1 evaluates multi-camera 3D perception in large indoor warehouses under a synthetic-to-real (Sim2Real) setting; depth is available only for training and validation, so inference is RGB-only.
By Abdullah Naeem, Anav Katwal, Ayon Dey, Noman Khan, Md Tamjidul Hoque
arXiv:2606. 07366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-driving simulations typically rely on data collected in a small number of cities or on hand-authored synthetic scenarios.
By Anurag Ghosh, Francesco Pittaluga, Khiem Vuong, Angela Chen, Juan Alvarez-Padilla, Manmohan Chandraker, Srinivasa Narasimhan