Jun 2026· arXiv.org· Vol abs/2606.31050· 0 citations· 58 references
Computer Science
TL;DR
Inspired by recent progress in 3D reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting, PredGS, a lightweight and plug-and-play adapter based on 2D Gaussian representation, which could be seamlessly integrated with existing pixel space predictors, significantly improving spatial detail preservation with negligible computational overhead is introduced.
Abstract
How to accurately predict a high-fidelity future world? While the visual world is inherently continuous, existing deterministic video prediction models operate in discrete pixel space and are mainly optimized with pixel-wise mean squared error (MSE), which often leads to over-smoothed predictions and a lack of fine-grained visual details. To address these limitations, we propose Predictive Differentiable Rendering (PDR), a novel end-to-end video prediction paradigm that bridges the gap between discrete and continuous representations. Inspired by recent progress in 3D reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting, we introduce PredGS, a lightweight and plug-and-play adapter based on 2D Gaussian representation, which could be seamlessly integrated with existing pixel space predictors, significantly improving spatial detail preservation with negligible computational overhead. Furthermore, we develop predgsplat, a CUDA-accelerated differentiable 2D Gaussian renderer supporting arbitrary channels. Each Gaussian is defined by 5 + C learnable parameters (position, scale, rotation, and C channel amplitudes) and achieves up to 10x faster rendering than the baseline. Optimized by a combined L1 and SSIM loss, PDR overcomes the inherent blurring tendencies of MSE Loss, significantly enhancing the prediction performance. Extensive experiments on diverse real-world benchmarks, including TaxiBJ, WeatherBench, KTH, and Human3.6M, demonstrate that PDR consistently surpasses existing methods, delivering superior detail preservation, visual fidelity, and predictive accuracy.
PhyParam is presented, a physics-guided image-to-video diffusion model that conditions on object-level forces, masses, friction, restitution, and scene-level gravity via a lightweight physical-attention routing mechanism, and further improves motion learning with semantic-structural feature-space supervision.
Yan-Xun Li, Hao Wen, Bingze Song et al.· 0 citations
While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) and dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieve impressive results in video processing, they often fall short of producing representations that are easily editable. Recent methods address this by introducing complex spatial deformations or folded distributions, which constrain optimization and reduce flexibility for downstream editing. In this paper, we introduce TOM-GS, an editable video representation that forgoes complex deformations in favor of regular 3D Gaussians equipped with a continuous temporal opacity formulation. By assigning a learnable temporal mean and scale to the opacity of each Gaussian, our model enables static 3D spatial components to fade smoothly in and out of the scene. Grounded by robust, off-the-shelf pose estimation, our approach maintains a static spatial geometry that naturally supports a wide range of manual and physics-based edits. TOM-GS outperforms prior editable video representations in visual fidelity, while its reliance on standard 3D Gaussians ensures seamless compatibility with established 3D editing tools.
Marek Lisowski, Ł. Smoliński, Kornel Howil et al.· 0 citations
Despite the success of diffusion models in Video Frame Interpolation (VFI), existing methods still suffer from two critical limitations. First, latent diffusion inevitably loses fine-grained details when reconstructing images from latent representations back to the pixel space. Second, multi-step sampling incurs prohibitive memory consumption and inference latency. To address these issues, we propose SPEED, a one-step pixel diffusion framework for high-quality VFI. Specifically, SPEED employs a progressive multi-stage architecture with dynamic patch scaling to effectively learn multi-scale motion, structural, and appearance representations. Furthermore, we propose a novel Noise-Update-Only Attention mechanism to prevent semantic degradation of the clean condition frames while reducing the computational overhead by nearly 50%. Besides, we introduce a Drift-aware Timestep Sampling strategy coupled with a tailored training objective to directly predict images in the pixel space, enabling one-step inference without compromising the quality of the generated frames. Extensive experiments show that SPEED achieves state-of-the-art performance. On SNU-FILM, SPEED reduces LPIPS by 8.8% while delivering 63.3% faster inference and 10.6% lower memory usage. On challenging 4K benchmarks, it further surpasses prior methods by up to 51.5% in LPIPS.
Zihao Zhang, Haoyu Zhao, Siqian Yang et al.· 0 citations
We present an empirical study of free-view video compression for dynamic scenes reconstructed with 3D Gaussian Splatting, examining how practical pipeline design choices affect reconstruction fidelity and storage efficiency. Rather than introducing new representations, we analyze how commonly used components, including temporal chunking, deformation-based reconstruction, and quantization-aware training, interact in practice. We observe that partitioning long sequences into shorter temporal segments, such as GOPs, simplifies optimization and improves reconstruction fidelity, but can introduce additional storage overhead. We further show that encouraging smooth motion vectors across both space and time produces deformation signals that are easier for standard video codecs to compress, leading to improved rate–distortion performance. When integrated into a unified pipeline, these design choices consistently benefit different deformation-based reconstruction methods. Across multiple datasets, our approach achieves 20% storage reduction compared with state-of-the-art methods while preserving or improving visual quality, and we discuss sources of variability and ambiguity in current training and evaluation protocols.
Mingyang Song, Yang Zhang, Siyu Tang et al.· International Conference on...· 0 citations
LiveVVT is introduced, a rolling streaming diffusion framework that preserves bounded bidirectional modeling within causal recurrent generation, and a progressive distillation framework integrating bidirectional VVT learning, teacher-trajectory regression for causal few-step adaptation, and Collaborative Matching Distillation, which couples teacher-distribution matching with rolling flow matching on real videos to align optimization with recurrent inference.
Yushe Cao, Shikun Feng, Ru-Xiang Duan et al.· 0 citations
MotionCraft is presented, a controllable VSR framework that formulates restoration as motion-aware latent state prediction inspired by world models and integrates adaptive sparse attention with an explicit user-accessible control interface to deliver temporally consistent, high-quality reconstructions under streaming constraints.
Rong Fu, Chunlei Meng, Yangcheng Zeng et al.· 0 citations