Diff4Splat: Controllable 4D Scene Generation with Latent Dynamic Reconstruction Models

2025-11-01

AI Summary

This work addresses the end-to-end generation of controllable explicit 4D scenes (appearance + geometry + motion) from a single input image, without test-time optimization or post-processing. We propose the first feed-forward framework that unifies video diffusion priors with large-scale 4D data-driven geometric and motion constraints, directly predicting time-varying 3D Gaussian fields via a video latent-space Transformer. Our method jointly models spatiotemporal dependencies and optimizes appearance fidelity, geometric accuracy, and motion consistency in a unified loss. In a single inference pass (within seconds), it generates high-fidelity 4D scenes—fully synthesizing 30-second sequences in under 30 seconds. It matches or surpasses optimization-based state-of-the-art methods on video generation, novel-view synthesis, and dynamic geometry reconstruction, while significantly improving efficiency and controllability for dynamic scene generation.

Technology Category

Computer Vision: Diffusion Models for VisionMachine Learning: Deep Generative Models & AutoencodersKnowledge Representation and Reasoning: Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Reasoning

Application Category

Graph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web: Efficient manipulation of static and dynamic Web-related graphsSemantics and Knowledge: Methods to enhance, augment, integrate or synergize semantic models such as knowledge graphs and LLMsWeb Mining and Content Analysis: Large pretrained models with web data

Abstract

We introduce Diff4Splat, a feed-forward method that synthesizes controllable and explicit 4D scenes from a single image. Our approach unifies the generative priors of video diffusion models with geometry and motion constraints learned from large-scale 4D datasets. Given a single input image, a camera trajectory, and an optional text prompt, Diff4Splat directly predicts a deformable 3D Gaussian field that encodes appearance, geometry, and motion, all in a single forward pass, without test-time optimization or post-hoc refinement. At the core of our framework lies a video latent transformer, which augments video diffusion models to jointly capture spatio-temporal dependencies and predict time-varying 3D Gaussian primitives. Training is guided by objectives on appearance fidelity, geometric accuracy, and motion consistency, enabling Diff4Splat to synthesize high-quality 4D scenes in 30 seconds. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Diff4Splatacross video generation, novel view synthesis, and geometry extraction, where it matches or surpasses optimization-based methods for dynamic scene synthesis while being significantly more efficient.

Problem

• Generates controllable 4D scenes from single images
• Unifies video diffusion models with geometry constraints
• Predicts deformable 3D Gaussian fields without optimization

Innovation

• Feed-forward method synthesizes controllable explicit 4D scenes
• Unifies video diffusion models with geometry motion constraints
• Predicts deformable 3D Gaussian field in single forward pass