Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.
Dream4D is a new framework for generating spatiotemporally coherent 4D content. It uses a two‑stage pipeline: first, few‑shot learning predicts optimal camera trajectories from a single image; second, a pose‑conditioned diffusion process creates geometrically consistent multi‑view sequences that are converted into a persistent 4D representation. The method uniquely combines rich temporal priors from video diffusion models with geometric awareness from reconstruction models, achieving higher quality metrics such as mPSNR and mSSIM compared to existing approaches.
By Xiaoyan Liu, Kangrui Li, Jiaxin Liu, Yuehao Song, Yujie Xing
arXiv:2609.35734v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Novel view synthesis from sparse images must reconcile faithful reconstruction of observed regions with plausible completion of unseen content, whi...
By Kerui Ren, Tao Lu, Linning Xu, Changjian Jiang, Mu Huang, Chunhua Shen, Mulin Yu, Bo Dai
arXiv:2608. 19556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming autoregressive diffusion models enable real-time, long-horizon video generation, but their training objectives optimize local frame prediction rather than the geometry and dynamics of a coherent world: long rollouts accumulate geometric drift and degrade into static or unnatural motion.
By Yuanhao Ban, Jiaqi Feng, Hengguang Zhou, Xiaohuan Pei, Justin Cui, Cho-Jui Hsieh
We present 4DAnyone, a framework for reconstructing 4D humans from an uncalibrated monocular video by generating reconstruction-grade multiview-consistent videos and lifting them into 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS). Existing camera-controlled video diffusion models synthesize plausible novel-view videos but fail to maintain consistency when scaled to the tens of target views required for 4DGS reconstruction.
arXiv:2608. 20335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present 4DAnyone, a framework for reconstructing 4D humans from an uncalibrated monocular video by generating reconstruction-grade multiview-consistent videos and lifting them into 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS).
By Yudong Jin, Tao Xie, Qihang Zhang, Zehong Shen, Zhen Xu, Yujun Shen, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou, Yinghao Xu