From Single Images to Motion Policies via Video-Generation Environment Representations

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Zhi, Weiming, Ma, Ziyong, Zhang, Tianyi, Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866910967604969472
author Zhi, Weiming
Ma, Ziyong
Zhang, Tianyi
Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
author_facet Zhi, Weiming
Ma, Ziyong
Zhang, Tianyi
Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
contents Autonomous robots typically need to construct representations of their surroundings and adapt their motions to the geometry of their environment. Here, we tackle the problem of constructing a policy model for collision-free motion generation, consistent with the environment, from a single input RGB image. Extracting 3D structures from a single image often involves monocular depth estimation. Developments in depth estimation have given rise to large pre-trained models such as DepthAnything. However, using outputs of these models for downstream motion generation is challenging due to frustum-shaped errors that arise. Instead, we propose a framework known as Video-Generation Environment Representation (VGER), which leverages the advances of large-scale video generation models to generate a moving camera video conditioned on the input image. Frames of this video, which form a multiview dataset, are then input into a pre-trained 3D foundation model to produce a dense point cloud. We then introduce a multi-scale noise approach to train an implicit representation of the environment structure and build a motion generation model that complies with the geometry of the representation. We extensively evaluate VGER over a diverse set of indoor and outdoor environments. We demonstrate its ability to produce smooth motions that account for the captured geometry of a scene, all from a single RGB input image.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2505_19306
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle From Single Images to Motion Policies via Video-Generation Environment Representations
Zhi, Weiming
Ma, Ziyong
Zhang, Tianyi
Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Machine Learning
Autonomous robots typically need to construct representations of their surroundings and adapt their motions to the geometry of their environment. Here, we tackle the problem of constructing a policy model for collision-free motion generation, consistent with the environment, from a single input RGB image. Extracting 3D structures from a single image often involves monocular depth estimation. Developments in depth estimation have given rise to large pre-trained models such as DepthAnything. However, using outputs of these models for downstream motion generation is challenging due to frustum-shaped errors that arise. Instead, we propose a framework known as Video-Generation Environment Representation (VGER), which leverages the advances of large-scale video generation models to generate a moving camera video conditioned on the input image. Frames of this video, which form a multiview dataset, are then input into a pre-trained 3D foundation model to produce a dense point cloud. We then introduce a multi-scale noise approach to train an implicit representation of the environment structure and build a motion generation model that complies with the geometry of the representation. We extensively evaluate VGER over a diverse set of indoor and outdoor environments. We demonstrate its ability to produce smooth motions that account for the captured geometry of a scene, all from a single RGB input image.
title From Single Images to Motion Policies via Video-Generation Environment Representations
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19306