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MotionForesight Re-purposing Video Models for Future 3D Scene-Flow Prediction

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This work studies how to learn anticipation of how objects move during human-object interaction from ordinary monocular videos of human-object interaction, and shows that it can be efficiently re-purpose video priors into explicit geometric forecasts for embodied intelligence.

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