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This research introduces GARFIELD, a probabilistic model that explicitly represents distributions over multiple potential future trajectories in video scenes rather than committing to a single prediction. By enabling efficient sampling of all possible motions alongside direct access to underlying motion densities, the method significantly accelerates uncertainty-aware planning and interactive exploration compared to standard Monte-Carlo approaches. The work advances computer vision by integrating rigorous probabilistic reasoning into scene kinematics for improved motion planning performance.
Schr\"odinger's Cat: Probabilistic Representation and Prediction of Potential Scene Kinematics
arXiv:2607.25984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting how a scene may evolve from partial observations requires reasoning about multiple possible futures rather than committing to a single trajectory. Existing approaches either generate appearance-dominated video predictions or sample a small number of trajectories without explicitly modeling the distribution of possible motion. We introduce Goal-Aware Representations of Future kInEmatic Latent Distributions (GARFIELD), a probabilistic model of scene kinematics that learns a structured spatio-temporal latent representation of the distribution over possible futures given an image and optional spatio-temporally sparse constraints. The same latent representation enables both joint sampling of all trajectories and direct access to the underlying motion distribution through an efficient deterministic density decoder. As a result, uncertainty about future motion can be localized to specific scene elements and timesteps and progressively refined through additional constraints. Experiments demonstrate strong motion planning performance competitive with large video generation models while sampling trajectories $97\times$ faster. Our method further estimates motion densities two orders of magnitude faster than Monte-Carlo sampling from motion generation models, enabling interactive exploration and uncertainty-aware planning.
Abstract:Predicting how a scene may evolve from partial observations requires reasoning about multiple possible futures rather than committing to a single trajectory. Existing approaches either generate appearance-dominated video predictions or sample a small number of trajectories without explicitly modeling the distribution of possible motion. We introduce Goal-Aware Representations of Future kInEmatic Latent Distributions (GARFIELD), a probabilistic model of scene kinematics that learns a structured spatio-temporal latent representation of the distribution over possible futures given an image and optional spatio-temporally sparse constraints. The same latent representation enables both joint sampling of all trajectories and direct access to the underlying motion distribution through an efficient deterministic density decoder. As a result, uncertainty about future motion can be localized to specific scene elements and timesteps and progressively refined through additional constraints. Experiments demonstrate strong motion planning performance competitive with large video generation models while sampling trajectories $97\times$ faster. Our method further estimates motion densities two orders of magnitude faster than Monte-Carlo sampling from motion generation models, enabling interactive exploration and uncertainty-aware planning.
Accepted at ECCV 2026. Project page: this https URL
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2607.25984 [cs.CV]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25984 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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