Vid2Sim: Generalizable, Video-based Reconstruction of Appearance, Geometry and Physics for Mesh-free Simulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06440v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:00:46 GMT
• Title: Vid2Sim: Generalizable, Video-based Reconstruction of Appearance, Geometry and Physics for Mesh-free Simulation
• Authors: Chuhao Chen, Zhiyang Dou, Chen Wang, Yiming Huang, Anjun Chen, Qiao Feng, Jiatao Gu, Lingjie Liu,
• Abstract summary: Vid2Sim is a generalizable video-based approach for recovering geometry and physical properties.<n>A feed-forward neural network trained to capture physical world knowledge reconstructs the observed configuration of the physical system from video.<n>A lightweight optimization pipeline refines the estimated appearance, geometry, and physical properties to closely align with video observations.
• Score: 41.17844925831194
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Faithfully reconstructing textured shapes and physical properties from videos presents an intriguing yet challenging problem. Significant efforts have been dedicated to advancing such a system identification problem in this area. Previous methods often rely on heavy optimization pipelines with a differentiable simulator and renderer to estimate physical parameters. However, these approaches frequently necessitate extensive hyperparameter tuning for each scene and involve a costly optimization process, which limits both their practicality and generalizability. In this work, we propose a novel framework, Vid2Sim, a generalizable video-based approach for recovering geometry and physical properties through a mesh-free reduced simulation based on Linear Blend Skinning (LBS), offering high computational efficiency and versatile representation capability. Specifically, Vid2Sim first reconstructs the observed configuration of the physical system from video using a feed-forward neural network trained to capture physical world knowledge. A lightweight optimization pipeline then refines the estimated appearance, geometry, and physical properties to closely align with video observations within just a few minutes. Additionally, after the reconstruction, Vid2Sim enables high-quality, mesh-free simulation with high efficiency. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves superior accuracy and efficiency in reconstructing geometry and physical properties from video data.

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