arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Learning from Next-Frame Prediction: Towards Unified and Scalable Visual Representation Learning

The paper introduces VANE, a self‑supervised visual pretraining framework that learns from next‑frame prediction in embedding space. It uses a causal encoder to summarize past observations, a state predictor to infer the representation of the entire next frame, and a lightweight generative decoder to reconstruct fine‑grained spatial detail. By applying the same objective to both videos and still images through a local‑to‑global crop sequence, VANE achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on anticipation, recognition, and dense perception benchmarks, notably outperforming V‑JEPA on EPIC‑KITCHENS‑100 action anticipation.

By Yifeng Yao, Jinghan Li, Zhihao Zhang, Yajiao Xiong, Yang Jin, Kun Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao