PanopticQuery: Unified Query-Time Reasoning for 4D Scenes

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Auteurs principaux: Tang, Ruilin, Zhou, Yang, Ye, Zhong, Liu, Wenxi, Huang, Yan, He, Shengfeng
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author Tang, Ruilin
Zhou, Yang
Ye, Zhong
Liu, Wenxi
Huang, Yan
He, Shengfeng
author_facet Tang, Ruilin
Zhou, Yang
Ye, Zhong
Liu, Wenxi
Huang, Yan
He, Shengfeng
contents Understanding dynamic 4D environments through natural language queries requires not only accurate scene reconstruction but also robust semantic grounding across space, time, and viewpoints. While recent methods using neural representations have advanced 4D reconstruction, they remain limited in contextual reasoning, especially for complex semantics such as interactions, temporal actions, and spatial relations. A key challenge lies in transforming noisy, view-dependent predictions into globally consistent 4D interpretations. We introduce PanopticQuery, a framework for unified query-time reasoning in 4D scenes. Our approach builds on 4D Gaussian Splatting for high-fidelity dynamic reconstruction and introduces a multi-view semantic consensus mechanism that grounds natural language queries by aggregating 2D semantic predictions across multiple views and time frames. This process filters inconsistent outputs, enforces geometric consistency, and lifts 2D semantics into structured 4D groundings via neural field optimization. To support evaluation, we present Panoptic-L4D, a new benchmark for language-based querying in dynamic scenes. Experiments demonstrate that PanopticQuery sets a new state of the art on complex language queries, effectively handling attributes, actions, spatial relationships, and multi-object interactions. A video demonstration is available in the supplementary materials.
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spellingShingle PanopticQuery: Unified Query-Time Reasoning for 4D Scenes
Tang, Ruilin
Zhou, Yang
Ye, Zhong
Liu, Wenxi
Huang, Yan
He, Shengfeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Understanding dynamic 4D environments through natural language queries requires not only accurate scene reconstruction but also robust semantic grounding across space, time, and viewpoints. While recent methods using neural representations have advanced 4D reconstruction, they remain limited in contextual reasoning, especially for complex semantics such as interactions, temporal actions, and spatial relations. A key challenge lies in transforming noisy, view-dependent predictions into globally consistent 4D interpretations. We introduce PanopticQuery, a framework for unified query-time reasoning in 4D scenes. Our approach builds on 4D Gaussian Splatting for high-fidelity dynamic reconstruction and introduces a multi-view semantic consensus mechanism that grounds natural language queries by aggregating 2D semantic predictions across multiple views and time frames. This process filters inconsistent outputs, enforces geometric consistency, and lifts 2D semantics into structured 4D groundings via neural field optimization. To support evaluation, we present Panoptic-L4D, a new benchmark for language-based querying in dynamic scenes. Experiments demonstrate that PanopticQuery sets a new state of the art on complex language queries, effectively handling attributes, actions, spatial relationships, and multi-object interactions. A video demonstration is available in the supplementary materials.
title PanopticQuery: Unified Query-Time Reasoning for 4D Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05638