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We introduce FLAG-4D, a novel framework for generating novel views of dynamic scenes by reconstructing how 3D Gaussian primitives evolve through space and time. Existing methods typically rely on a single Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guan Yuan Tan , Ngoc Tuan Vu , Arghya Pal , Sailaja Rajanala , Raphael Phan C. -W. , Mettu Srinivas , Chee-Ming Ting

Traditional computational fluid dynamics and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often suffer from high computational cost, mesh sensitivity, and reduced accuracy for strongly nonlinear and time-dependent flows. To address these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Biswanath Barman , Debdeep Chatterjee , Rajendra K. Ray

One of the current challenges in physically-based simulations, and, more specifically, fluid simulations, is to produce visually appealing results at interactive rates, capable of being used in multiple forms of media. In recent times, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pedro Centeno , João Madeiras Pereira

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

We propose a deep neural network for the prediction of future frames in natural video sequences. To effectively handle complex evolution of pixels in videos, we propose to decompose the motion and content, two key components generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ruben Villegas , Jimei Yang , Seunghoon Hong , Xunyu Lin , Honglak Lee

Recent advancements in foundation models for 2D vision have substantially improved the analysis of dynamic scenes from monocular videos. However, despite their strong generalization capabilities, these models often lack 3D consistency, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haoran Zhou , Gim Hee Lee

In this work, we pioneer Semantic Flow, a neural semantic representation of dynamic scenes from monocular videos. In contrast to previous NeRF methods that reconstruct dynamic scenes from the colors and volume densities of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Fengrui Tian , Yueqi Duan , Angtian Wang , Jianfei Guo , Shaoyi Du

We present a novel approach to estimating physical properties of objects from video. Our approach consists of a physics engine and a correction estimator. Starting from the initial observed state, object behavior is simulated forward in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Martin Link , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

We introduce Neural Flow Maps, a novel simulation method bridging the emerging paradigm of implicit neural representations with fluid simulation based on the theory of flow maps, to achieve state-of-the-art simulation of inviscid fluid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yitong Deng , Hong-Xing Yu , Diyang Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Bo Zhu

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation by the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations is an essential tool in a wide range of applications from engineering design to climate modeling. However, the computational cost and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Mateus Dias Ribeiro , Abdul Rehman , Sheraz Ahmed , Andreas Dengel

Real-life control tasks involve matters of various substances---rigid or soft bodies, liquid, gas---each with distinct physical behaviors. This poses challenges to traditional rigid-body physics engines. Particle-based simulators have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yunzhu Li , Jiajun Wu , Russ Tedrake , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

In this paper we describe a method for modeling the dynamic behavior of splashing fluids. The model simulates the behavior of a fluid when objects impact or float on its surface. The forces generated by the objects create waves and splashes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 James F. O'Brien , Jessica K. Hodgins

We report a new approach to flow field tomography that uses the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations to regularize reconstructions. Tomography is increasingly employed to infer 2D or 3D fluid flow and combustion structures from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Joseph P. Molnar , Samuel J. Grauer

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and the underlying physics purely from multi-view videos. By applying various governing PDEs as PINN losses or incorporating physics simulation into neural networks, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

Forecasting future scenarios in dynamic environments is essential for intelligent decision-making and navigation, a challenge yet to be fully realized in computer vision and robotics. Traditional approaches like video prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Boming Zhao , Yuan Li , Ziyu Sun , Lin Zeng , Yujun Shen , Rui Ma , Yinda Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Recently, multiple formulations of vision problems as probabilistic inversions of generative models based on computer graphics have been proposed. However, applications to 3D perception from natural images have focused on low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Tejas D. Kulkarni , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Efficient simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow is a long standing problem in applied mathematics, for which state-of-the-art methods require large compute resources. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jonathan Tompson , Kristofer Schlachter , Pablo Sprechmann , Ken Perlin

We explore a novel method to perceive and manipulate 3D articulated objects that generalizes to enable a robot to articulate unseen classes of objects. We propose a vision-based system that learns to predict the potential motions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ben Eisner , Harry Zhang , David Held

We present a method to estimate depth of a dynamic scene, containing arbitrary moving objects, from an ordinary video captured with a moving camera. We seek a geometrically and temporally consistent solution to this underconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Zhoutong Zhang , Forrester Cole , Richard Tucker , William T. Freeman , Tali Dekel

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Jund , Chris Sweeney , Nichola Abdo , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens