ShapeGen4D: Towards High Quality 4D Shape Generation from Videos
This work addresses the problem of generating high-quality 4D shapes from videos for applications in computer vision and graphics, representing an incremental advancement with novel components.
The paper tackled video-conditioned 4D shape generation by introducing a framework that synthesizes dynamic 3D representations from videos, improving robustness and perceptual fidelity across diverse in-the-wild videos compared to baselines.
Video-conditioned 4D shape generation aims to recover time-varying 3D geometry and view-consistent appearance directly from an input video. In this work, we introduce a native video-to-4D shape generation framework that synthesizes a single dynamic 3D representation end-to-end from the video. Our framework introduces three key components based on large-scale pre-trained 3D models: (i) a temporal attention that conditions generation on all frames while producing a time-indexed dynamic representation; (ii) a time-aware point sampling and 4D latent anchoring that promote temporally consistent geometry and texture; and (iii) noise sharing across frames to enhance temporal stability. Our method accurately captures non-rigid motion, volume changes, and even topological transitions without per-frame optimization. Across diverse in-the-wild videos, our method improves robustness and perceptual fidelity and reduces failure modes compared with the baselines.