MoCo-Flow: Neural Motion Consensus Flow for Dynamic Humans in Stationary Monocular Cameras

TL;DR

MoCo-Flow introduces a novel 4D continuous representation for modeling dynamic humans from single stationary monocular cameras, enabling high-quality novel view synthesis without multi-view data.

Contribution

The paper presents Neural Motion Consensus Flow (MoCo-Flow), a new approach that models dynamic scenes with a 4D function and a specialized optimization scheme constrained by motion consensus.

Findings

Outperforms baseline methods in qualitative and quantitative evaluations.

Effectively models complex human motions from monocular videos.

Demonstrates robustness across diverse datasets.

Abstract

Synthesizing novel views of dynamic humans from stationary monocular cameras is a specialized but desirable setup. This is particularly attractive as it does not require static scenes, controlled environments, or specialized capture hardware. In contrast to techniques that exploit multi-view observations, the problem of modeling a dynamic scene from a single view is significantly more under-constrained and ill-posed. In this paper, we introduce Neural Motion Consensus Flow (MoCo-Flow), a representation that models dynamic humans in stationary monocular cameras using a 4D continuous time-variant function. We learn the proposed representation by optimizing for a dynamic scene that minimizes the total rendering error, over all the observed images. At the heart of our work lies a carefully designed optimization scheme, which includes a dedicated initialization step and is constrained by a motion consensus regularization on the estimated motion flow. We extensively evaluate MoCo-Flow on several datasets that contain human motions of varying complexity, and compare, both qualitatively and quantitatively, to several baselines and ablated variations of our methods, showing the efficacy and merits of the proposed approach. Pretrained model, code, and data will be released for research purposes upon paper acceptance.