DynaTok: Token-Based 4D Reconstruction from Partial Point Clouds
About
We address 4D reconstruction from partial point cloud sequences, where depth-sensor observations are incomplete, unordered, and lack explicit temporal correspondences. This geometry-only setting is challenging due to missing observations and ambiguous dynamics. While recent progress has largely relied on image-based methods, existing point-based approaches typically focus on single objects, assume relatively complete inputs, or require explicit correspondences. To address these limitations, we propose DynaTok, a point-based framework for correspondence-free 4D reconstruction from partial point cloud sequences without images. DynaTok encodes frames into compact latent tokens, aggregates incomplete observations over time with a Transformer-based spatiotemporal encoder, and decouples geometry and motion through residual tokens in a unified model. A flow-matching decoder then reconstructs complete, temporally consistent 4D point-cloud sequences conditioned on the latent tokens. Experiments on object- and scene-level benchmarks demonstrate improved reconstruction quality and temporal coherence from partial point cloud observations. Project page: https://wrchen530.github.io/dynatok/.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object-level 4D Reconstruction | DeformingThings4D Animals (Unseen Motion) | Accuracy2.3 | 5 | |
| Object-level 4D Reconstruction | DeformingThings4D-Animals (Unseen Individual) | Accuracy2.7 | 5 | |
| 4D Reconstruction | Kubric | Mean Chamfer Distance (Mean CD)0.0044 | 2 |