2nd 4D Vision Workshop

Modeling the Dynamic World

in conjunction with CVPR 2026, Denver CO

When:June 4 Afternoon (1:00 – 6:00 PM) Where:Room 506, Denver Convention Center


Speakers Call for Papers Organizers

Overview

Understanding the world in 4D — 3D over time — is fundamental to autonomous robotics, immersive virtual worlds, and scientific discovery. Building on rapid advances in 3D vision, 4D computer vision (Dynamic 3D) is emerging as a vibrant research frontier.

This second edition of the workshop brings researchers together to accelerate progress on topics including but not limited to:

  • 4D scene modeling, reconstruction, and generation
  • Category-specific 4D models — humans, objects, animals
  • Physically plausible world models, simulation, and robotics
  • Applications in biology, manufacturing, astrophysics, and beyond
  • And more — we welcome all work advancing 4D understanding

Speakers

Tentative Schedule (may change)

Half-day workshop on June 4 Afternoon, Room 506, Denver Convention Center.

Time Session
1:00 – 1:30Invited Talk — Georgios Pavlakos
1:30 – 2:00Invited Talk — Jiajun Wu
2:00 – 2:30Invited Talk — Dima Damen
2:30 – 3:00Invited Talk — Srinath Sridhar
3:00 – 3:30Tea Break
3:30 – 4:00Invited Talk — Noah Snavely
4:00 – 4:30Invited Talk — Chaoyang Wang
4:30 – 5:00Spotlight Talks
5:00 – 6:00Poster Session

Organizers

Reviewers

This workshop would not be possible without the generous time, effort, and expertise of the following reviewers.

Aviral Chharia Chaoyue Song Chuhao Chen Gal Fiebelman Gyeongsu Cho Hang Dai
Hao Zhang Haowen Liu Haozheng Yu Hirokatsu Kataoka Jay Karhade Jen-Hao Cheng
Jieneng Chen Junyi Zhang Kim Youwang Koshi Makihara Lexi Pang Linzhan Mou
Marius Kästingschäfer Mellon M. Zhang Minghao Chen Moitreya Chatterjee Neerja Thakkar Paul Engstler
Qi Sun Ruijie Zhu Ruojin Cai Ryousuke Yamada Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick Shenhan Qian
Shizun Wang Sizhe Wei Suyash Damle Ting-Hsuan Liao Weijia Zeng Yalda Foroutan
Yanzhe Lyu Yash Sanjay Bhalgat Yiming Gong Yue Gao Yulun Wu Yunze Wei
Yunzhou Song Yuxin Yao Zhiyang Dou Žiga Kovačič Zizhang Li

Accepted Papers

Camera-ready PDFs are coming soon.

Phys4D: Fine-Grained Physics-Consistent 4D Modeling from Video Diffusion
Haoran Lu, Shang Wu, Jianshu Zhang, Maojiang Su, Guo Ye, Chenwei Xu, Lie Lu, Pranav Maneriker, Fan Du, Manling Li, Zhaoran Wang, Han Liu
Space-Time Forecasting of Dynamic Scenes with Motion-aware Gaussian Grouping
Junmyeong Lee, Hoseung Choi, Minsu Cho
Any4D: Unified Feed-Forward Metric 4D Reconstruction
Jay Karhade, Nikhil Varma Keetha, Yuchen Zhang, Tanisha Gupta, Akash Sharma, Sebastian Scherer, Deva Ramanan
PackUV: Packed Gaussian UV Maps for 4D Volumetric Video
Aashish Rai, Angela Xing, Anushka agarwal, Xiaoyan Cong, Zekun Li, Tao Lu, Aayush Prakash, Srinath Sridhar
LASER: Layer-wise Scale Alignment for Training-Free Streaming 4D Reconstruction
Tianye Ding, Yiming Xie, Yiqing Liang, Moitreya Chatterjee, Pedro Miraldo, Huaizu Jiang
4D-RGPT: Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
Chiao-An Yang, Ryo Hachiuma, Sifei Liu, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Raymond A. Yeh, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Min-Hung Chen
MotionCrafter: Dense Geometry and Motion Reconstruction with a 4D VAE
Ruijie Zhu, Jiahao Lu, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoguang Han, Jianfei Cai, Ying Shan, Chuanxia Zheng
QueryOcc: Query-based Self-Supervision for 3D Semantic Occupancy
Adam Lilja, Ji Lan, Junsheng Fu, Lars Hammarstrand
Let it Snow! Animating 3D Gaussian Scenes with Dynamic Weather Effects via Physics-Guided Score Distillation
Gal Fiebelman, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Sagie Benaim
Dex4D: Task-Agnostic Point Track Policy for Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation
Yuxuan Kuang, Sungjae Park, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Shubham Tulsiani
MV-Fashion: Towards Enabling Virtual Try-On and Size Estimation with Multi-View Paired Data
Hunor Laczkó, Libang Jia, Phat Loc Truong, Diego Hernández, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Meysam Madadi
Point4Cast: Streaming Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Forecasting
Xinhang Liu, Pedro Miraldo, Suhas Lohit, Huaizu Jiang, Naoko Sawada, Yu-Wing Tai, Chi-Keung Tang, Moitreya Chatterjee
Lang4DGS: Language-Driven 4D Gaussian Scene Prediction
TzuYu Chuang, YuanFu Yang
Streaming4D: Accelerate 4D World Models via Block-wise Video Generation and Incremental Reconstruction
Xiaoyan Liu, Kangrui Li, Jiaxin liu, Sifan Zhou
LoGeR: Long-Context Dynamic 3D Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory
Junyi Zhang, Charles Herrmann, Junhwa Hur, Chen Sun, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Forrester Cole, Trevor Darrell, Deqing Sun
4D Reconstruction from Sparse Dynamic Cameras
Kazuki Ozeki, Shun Kenney, Yuto Shibata, Eisuke Takeuchi, Takuya Narihira, Kazumi Fukuda, Ryosuke Sawata, Yuki Mitsufuji, Yoshimitsu Aoki
Thinking in Dynamics: How Multimodal Large Language Models Perceive, Track, and Reason Dynamics in Physical 4D World
Yuzhi Huang, Kairun Wen, Rongxin Gao, Dongxuan Liu, Yibin Lou, Jie Wu, Jing Xu, Jian Zhang, Zheng Yang, Yunlong Lin, Chenxin Li, Panwang Pan, Junbin Lu, Jingyan Jiang, Xinghao Ding, Yue Huang, Zhi Wang
Forecasting Animal Motion in the Wild
Neerja Thakkar, Shiry Ginosar, Jacob C Walker, Jitendra Malik, Joao Carreira, Carl Doersch
When Ears Meet Eyes: Audio-Enhanced Egocentric Action Understanding
Chun Chit HO, Tsz Hei TSOI
SP4R: Sparse-view 4D Reconstruction via Dynamic Point Maps and Gaussian Splatting
Damani Mguni-Coker
FreeOrbit4D: Training-Free Arbitrary Camera Redirection for Monocular Videos via Foreground-Complete 4D Reconstruction
Wei Cao, Hao Zhang, Fengrui Tian, Yulun Wu, Yingying Li, Shenlong Wang, Ning Yu, Yaoyao Liu
ELITE: Efficient Gaussian Head Avatar from a Monocular Video via Learned Initialization and Test-time Generative Adaptation
Kim Youwang, Lee Hyoseok, Park Subin, Gerard Pons-Moll, Tae-Hyun Oh
NewtPhys: A 4D Benchmark to Study Physics Probing in Vision
Sebastian Cavada, Soumava Paul, Tuan-Hung VU, Andrei Bursuc, Raoul de Charette
Particulate: Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation
Ruining Li, Yuxin Yao, Chuanxia Zheng, Christian Rupprecht, Joan Lasenby, Shangzhe Wu, Andrea Vedaldi
Better Rigs, Not Bigger Networks: A Body Model Ablation for Gaussian Avatars
Derek Austin
Choreographing a World of Dynamic Objects
Yanzhe Lyu, Chen Geng, Karthik Dharmarajan, Yunzhi Zhang, Hadi Alzayer, Shangzhe Wu, Jiajun Wu
Real-to-Sim Robot Policy Evaluation with Gaussian Splatting Simulation of Soft-Body Interactions
Kaifeng Zhang, Shuo Sha, Hanxiao Jiang, Matthew Loper, Hyunjong Song, Guangyan Cai, Zhuo Xu, Xiaochen Hu, Changxi Zheng, Yunzhu Li
Text-Guided Object Removal for Drone-Based 3D Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting
Yuta Kikuchi, Kazunori Yamada, Atsushi Koike
PointAction: 3D Points as Universal Action Representations for Robot Control
Mutian Tong, Han Jiang, Qiao Feng, Lingjie Liu, Jiatao Gu
Splannequin: Freezing Monocular Mannequin-Challenge Footage with Dual-Detection Splatting
Hao-Jen Chien, Yi-Chuan Huang, Chung-Ho Wu, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu-Lun Liu
GaussianFlesh: A Total Lagrangian APIC Substrate for Unified Geometry, Material State, and Continuum Simulation
Chukwudalu Dumebi-Kachikwu
GenieMotion: Learning Object-Centric 4D Motion Representations from a Single Image via Generative Demonstrations
Mritunjoy Halder, Ravi Prakash

Call for Papers

We invite short papers (~4 pages) and full-length papers (up to 8 pages excl. references) on dynamic 3D (4D) modeling and applications. Submissions follow the CVPR 2026 format (double-blind). Supplementary material is allowed.

Non-archival: Accepted papers will not be published in proceedings. Previously published work is welcome. Authors may resubmit to future venues after acceptance.
Dual-submission notice: Although this workshop is non-archival, if you are submitting a manuscript currently under review at another venue, we strongly encourage you to verify that venue's dual-submission policy. Some conferences consider non-archival workshop papers longer than 4 pages with peer review to constitute a dual submission. If this applies, we recommend submitting a trimmed 4-page version to this workshop to remain in compliance.

Key Dates

  • Submission Portal: OpenReview
  • Submission Deadline: March 21, 2026 — 11:59 PM PT April 2, 2026 — 11:59 PM PT
  • Notification of Acceptance: April 18, 2026 April 23, 2026

Questions? Contact 4dvisionworkshop@googlegroups.com

Topics of Interest (including but not limited to)

  • 4D reconstruction & generation
  • 4D predictive modeling
  • Tracking & SLAM
  • Multi-modal 4D understanding
  • Egocentric 4D perception
  • Dynamic humans & animals
  • 4D simulation & synthetic data
  • Embodied agents & robots
  • 4D datasets & sensors
  • Benchmarking & evaluation
  • Other related topics

Reviewer Nomination

We are looking for reviewers with 4D vision expertise. Interested? Fill out this form.