DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modeling

Yue Huang (Xiamen University) · Panwang Pan (ByteDance) · Chenxin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) · Yunlong Lin (Xiamen University) · Kairun Wen (Xiamen University) · Jian Zhang (Xiamen University) · Xinghao Ding (Xiamen University) · Hui Zheng (Xiamen University) · Junbin Lu (University of Washington) · Chenguo Lin (Peking University) · Dilin Wang (Meta) · Rakesh Ranjan (Meta) · Zhiwen Fan (University of Texas, Austin) · Wenyan Cong (University of Texas at Austin) · Yuzhihuang (Xiamen University) · Runyu Chen (Xiamen University) · Zhicheng Yan (Facebook AI) · Hongyu Xu (Facebook) · Justin Theiss (Meta Reality Labs)
camera intrinsics estimationcamera pose estimationdynamic physical worlddynamicverseembodied agentsfoundation modelsglobal optimizationholistic descriptive captionsinstance-level masksmetric-scale static geometrymonocular videosmultimodal 4d world modelingstructure-from-motionvideo depth estimationwindow-based bundle adjustment

Understanding the dynamic physical world, characterized by its evolving 3D structure, real-world motion, and semantic content with textual descriptions, is crucial for human-agent interaction and enables embodied agents to perceive and act within real environments with human‑like capabilities. However, existing datasets are often derived from limited simulators or utilize traditional Structure-from-Motion for up-to-scale annotation and offer limited descriptive captioning, which restricts the capacity of foundation models to accurately interpret real-world dynamics from monocular videos, commonly sourced from the internet. To bridge these gaps, we introduce **DynamicVerse**, a physical‑scale, multimodal 4D world modeling framework for dynamic real-world video. We employ large vision, geometric, and multimodal models to interpret metric-scale static geometry, real-world dynamic motion, instance-level masks, and holistic descriptive captions. By integrating window-based Bundle Adjustment with global optimization, our method converts long real-world video sequences into a comprehensive 4D multimodal format. DynamicVerse delivers a large-scale dataset consists of 100K+ videos with 800K+ annotated masks and 10M+ frames from internet videos. Experimental evaluations on three benchmark tasks, namely video depth estimation, camera pose estimation, and camera intrinsics estimation, demonstrate that our 4D modeling achieves superior performance in capturing physical-scale measurements with greater global accuracy than existing methods.