Summary of Degrees Of Freedom Matter: Inferring Dynamics From Point Trajectories, by Yan Zhang et al.
Degrees of Freedom Matter: Inferring Dynamics from Point Trajectories
by Yan Zhang, Sergey Prokudin, Marko Mihajlovic, Qianli Ma, Siyu Tang
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper addresses a fundamental challenge in computer vision: understanding the dynamics of generic 3D scenes. The authors aim to infer dense, long-range motion of 3D points by observing point trajectories and learning an implicit motion field using a neural network. Their approach builds upon the dynamic point field model, but neglects temporal consistency and increases parameters with sequence length. To address these issues, they exploit SIREN’s intrinsic regularization and modify the input layer to produce spatiotemporally smooth motion fields. The authors also analyze the motion field Jacobian matrix, discovering different behaviors in motion degrees of freedom and network hidden variables. This enables them to improve model representation capability while retaining compactness. To reduce overfitting risk, they introduce a regularization term based on piece-wise motion smoothness. The paper’s experiments demonstrate the model’s effectiveness in predicting unseen point trajectories and temporal mesh alignment. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how computers can understand and predict how objects move in 3D scenes. This is important for things like video games, movies, and virtual reality. The authors develop a new way to learn motion patterns from data and use it to improve the accuracy of their predictions. They also show that their method works well when applied to real-world problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Neural network » Overfitting » Regularization
