arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

FlowHMR: Physically Plausible Motion Capture from Video

arXiv:2610.03691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FlowHMR, a framework for recovering physically plausible global 3D human motion from monocular video. Previous learning-based methods typica...

By Zhanke Wang, Chengfeng Zhao, Qing Shuai, Jingzhong Lin, Heng Li, Zeyu Ling, Yuxin Wen, Jing Li, Di Kang, Chunchao Guo, Linchao Bao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

FlowWAM: Optical Flow as a Unified Action Representation for World Action Models

World Action Models (WAMs) are able to leverage pretrained video generators for both world modeling and action prediction. However, directly leveraging such video generators for control raises a new challenge: how to represent actions in a suitable form that aligns with pretrained video generators while carrying enough motion cues for accurate control.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

LPA-CWM: A Learned Physical Adjudicator for Motion Reasoning with Counterfactual World Models

LPA-CWM introduces a Learned Physical Adjudicator (LPA) to improve counterfactual world models (CWM) for motion reasoning by learning to weight candidate responses based on visual context and response structure. The 3.0M‑parameter LPA is trained on dense MOVi‑F trajectories while keeping the CWM predictor and intervention generator frozen. A new Completeness‑aware Motion Correspondence (CMC) protocol evaluates localization, trajectory completeness, visibility, and continuity, and LPA‑CWM achieves significant gains on DAVIS and Kinetics subsets.

By Kunwei Wu, Xiang Liu, Guocai Yao, Junming Chen, Zhikang Chen, Min Zhang, Pengwei Wang, Sen Cui
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Persistent Robot World Models: Stabilizing Multi-Step Rollouts via Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces a reinforcement learning post‑training scheme that trains robot world models on their own autoregressive rollouts, using a contrastive RL objective adapted from diffusion models. It also proposes a training protocol that compares multiple variable‑length futures, a multi‑view visual fidelity reward, and demonstrates state‑of‑the‑art rollout fidelity on the DROID dataset, outperforming baselines on LPIPS, SSIM, and human preference tests.

By Jai Bardhan, Patrik Drozdik, Josef Sivic, Vladimir Petrik
arXiv AI
Aug 21

Stream4D: 4D-Consistency for Streaming Autoregressive Diffusion Video Models

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