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| author | Chen, Hongyuan Chen, Xingyu Zhang, Youjia Xu, Zexiang Chen, Anpei |
| author_facet | Chen, Hongyuan Chen, Xingyu Zhang, Youjia Xu, Zexiang Chen, Anpei |
| contents | We present Motion 3-to-4, a feed-forward framework for synthesising high-quality 4D dynamic objects from a single monocular video and an optional 3D reference mesh. While recent advances have significantly improved 2D, video, and 3D content generation, 4D synthesis remains difficult due to limited training data and the inherent ambiguity of recovering geometry and motion from a monocular viewpoint. Motion 3-to-4 addresses these challenges by decomposing 4D synthesis into static 3D shape generation and motion reconstruction. Using a canonical reference mesh, our model learns a compact motion latent representation and predicts per-frame vertex trajectories to recover complete, temporally coherent geometry. A scalable frame-wise transformer further enables robustness to varying sequence lengths. Evaluations on both standard benchmarks and a new dataset with accurate ground-truth geometry show that Motion 3-to-4 delivers superior fidelity and spatial consistency compared to prior work. Project page is available at https://motion3-to-4.github.io/. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Motion 3-to-4: 3D Motion Reconstruction for 4D Synthesis Chen, Hongyuan Chen, Xingyu Zhang, Youjia Xu, Zexiang Chen, Anpei Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition We present Motion 3-to-4, a feed-forward framework for synthesising high-quality 4D dynamic objects from a single monocular video and an optional 3D reference mesh. While recent advances have significantly improved 2D, video, and 3D content generation, 4D synthesis remains difficult due to limited training data and the inherent ambiguity of recovering geometry and motion from a monocular viewpoint. Motion 3-to-4 addresses these challenges by decomposing 4D synthesis into static 3D shape generation and motion reconstruction. Using a canonical reference mesh, our model learns a compact motion latent representation and predicts per-frame vertex trajectories to recover complete, temporally coherent geometry. A scalable frame-wise transformer further enables robustness to varying sequence lengths. Evaluations on both standard benchmarks and a new dataset with accurate ground-truth geometry show that Motion 3-to-4 delivers superior fidelity and spatial consistency compared to prior work. Project page is available at https://motion3-to-4.github.io/. |
| title | Motion 3-to-4: 3D Motion Reconstruction for 4D Synthesis |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14253 |