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ARXIV:2602.08961 · 4D GEOMETRY AND MOTION RECONSTRUCTION · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.089614D GEOMETRY AND MOTION RECONSTRUCTIONSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE.
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Pain MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE.
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MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE. The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point maps and 3D…
We introduce MotionCrafter, a video diffusion-based framework that jointly reconstructs 4D geometry and estimates dense motion from a monocular video. The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Unlike prior work that forces the 3D value and latents to align strictly with RGB VAE latents-despite their fundamentally different distributions-we show that such…
4D Geometry and Motion Reconstruction moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
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MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE.
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.08961MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE.
Abstract
We introduce MotionCrafter, a video diffusion-based framework that jointly reconstructs 4D geometry and estimates dense motion from a monocular video. The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point maps and 3D scene flows in a shared coordinate system, and a novel 4D VAE to effectively learn this representation. Unlike prior work that forces the 3D value and latents to align strictly with RGB VAE latents-despite their fundamentally different distributions-we show that such alignment is unnecessary and leads to suboptimal performance. Instead, we introduce a new data normalization and VAE training strategy that better transfers diffusion priors and greatly improves reconstruction quality. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate that MotionCrafter achieves state-of-the-art performance in both geometry reconstruction and dense scene flow estimation, delivering 38.64% and 25.0% improvements in geometry and motion reconstruction, respectively, all without any post-optimization. Project page: https://ruijiezhu94.github.io/MotionCrafter_Page
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MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE. The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point maps and 3D scene flows in a shared coordinate system, and a novel 4D VAE to ef...
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We introduce MotionCrafter, a video diffusion-based framework that jointly reconstructs 4D geometry and estimates dense motion from a monocular video. The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point maps and 3D scene flows in a shared coordinate system,...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Unlike prior work that forces the 3D value and latents to align strictly with RGB VAE latents-despite their fundamentally different distributions-we show that such alignment is unnecessary and leads to su...
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4D Geometry and Motion Reconstruction moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
delivering 38.64% and 25.0% improvements in geometry and motion reconstruction, respectively
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delivering 38.64% and 25.0% improvements in geometry and motion reconstruction, respectively
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its performance may degrade in poorly lit or fast-moving scenes.
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we show that such alignment is unnecessary and leads to suboptimal performance.
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The core of our method is a novel joint representation of dense 3D point maps and 3D scene flows... and a novel 4D VAE to effectively learn this representation.
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all without any post-optimization.
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we introduce a new data normalization and VAE training strategy that better transfers diffusion priors and greatly improves reconstruction quality.
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MotionCrafter enables state-of-the-art dense 4D geometry and motion reconstruction from monocular videos using a novel 4D VAE.
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