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arxiv: 2605.13838 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-13 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.GR· cs.LG

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R-DMesh: Video-Guided 3D Animation via Rectified Dynamic Mesh Flow

Chunchao Guo, Lixin Xu, Puhua Jiang, Sicong Liu, Xiang Bai, Zijie Wu

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.GRcs.LG
keywords video-guided animation4D mesh generationpose rectificationrectified flowdynamic meshVAETriflow Attentiondiffusion transformer
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The pith

R-DMesh generates 4D meshes from video by learning a rectification offset that aligns mismatched input poses before animation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to solve the pose misalignment problem in video-guided 3D animation, where a supplied static mesh rarely starts in the same configuration as the first frame of a driving video. It shows that a VAE can disentangle the input into a base mesh, relative motion, and a learned jump offset that automatically corrects the starting pose. Once aligned, Triflow Attention enforces vertex-wise geometric consistency across the three flows while a rectified-flow diffusion transformer transfers motion priors from pre-trained video latents. The result is a unified pipeline that produces high-fidelity 4D sequences without the distortions that occur when mismatched poses are forced together. A supporting dataset of more than 500,000 dynamic mesh sequences is built to train and evaluate this rectification capability.

Core claim

A variational autoencoder explicitly learns a rectification jump offset that transforms an arbitrary input mesh pose to match the video's initial state; this offset is then combined with relative motion trajectories and processed by Triflow Attention, which modulates three orthogonal flows with vertex-wise geometric features to maintain physical consistency and local rigidity throughout both the rectification step and subsequent animation, all inside a Rectified Flow-based Diffusion Transformer conditioned on video latents.

What carries the argument

The rectification jump offset inside the VAE, which learns to map any starting mesh pose onto the video's first frame before motion transfer begins.

If this is right

  • Pose retargeting can be performed without manual pre-alignment of the source mesh.
  • Holistic 4D mesh sequences can be generated from video even when the supplied mesh begins in an unrelated pose.
  • Spatio-temporal priors from large video models transfer directly to the 3D domain while preserving local rigidity.
  • Downstream applications such as AR content creation become feasible without per-instance pose correction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same rectification idea could be tested on non-rigid objects whose deformation modes exceed the local-rigidity assumptions of Triflow Attention.
  • The Video-RDMesh dataset could serve as a public benchmark for measuring robustness to initial-pose variation in future 4D methods.
  • Real-time video capture pipelines might incorporate the rectification offset to enable live 4D mesh animation from casual phone footage.
  • Similar jump-offset mechanisms could be explored for audio- or text-conditioned animation where the driving signal also starts at an arbitrary temporal offset.

Load-bearing premise

The learned rectification offset can always map arbitrary input mesh poses onto the video starting frame without creating geometric distortion or violating the physical consistency later enforced by Triflow Attention.

What would settle it

Generate outputs from input meshes whose initial poses differ sharply from the video start frame and inspect the results for collapsed geometry, self-intersections, or loss of local rigidity that the rectification step was supposed to prevent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.13838 by Chunchao Guo, Lixin Xu, Puhua Jiang, Sicong Liu, Xiang Bai, Zijie Wu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Video-Guided 3D Animation via Rectified Dynamic Mesh (R-DMesh). Given a monocular reference video (left), our method synthesizes high-fidelity, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The challenge of pose misalignment in video-guided 3D animation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of our proposed R-DMesh VAE. It compresses and reconstructs dynamic mesh sequences conditioned on a static mesh of the same object in an arbitrary pose. (Left) Decomposition: The input sequence is decoupled into vertices 𝑉𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 , face 𝐹 , global offsets ∆𝐽 , and relative motion 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑙 . (Middle) Encoder: The Triflow Attention mechanism jointly processes these components to capture spatio-temporal… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of our proposed R-DMesh RF model. We leverage a pre￾trained, frozen Video Diffusion Model (VDM) as a strong visual prior. The VDM processes the reference video to extract rich semantic and dynamic features. These features are injected into the trainable Transformer blocks via Cross-Attention, guiding the generation of mesh dynamics (𝑧Δ, 𝑧𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑗 ). 𝜖 ∼ N (0, 𝐼) and 𝑡 ∈ [0, 1]. The network input … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison with state-of-the-art methods. We evaluate against video-to-4D methods (SC4D [Wu et al [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Visual ablation on Jump Decomposition and Triflow Attention. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Pose retargeting application examples of our method. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Motion retargeting application examples of our method. Left: Reference videos generated by video generation models. Right: Generated 3D animations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Holistic video-to-4D generation application examples of our method. The top row shows the reference videos. The middle row displays the reconstructed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Limitations of our method. (a) Mesh Interpenetration. Our gener [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Video-guided 3D animation holds immense potential for content creation, offering intuitive and precise control over dynamic assets. However, practical deployment faces a critical yet frequently overlooked hurdle: the pose misalignment dilemma. In real-world scenarios, the initial pose of a user-provided static mesh rarely aligns with the starting frame of a reference video. Naively forcing a mesh to follow a mismatched trajectory inevitably leads to severe geometric distortion or animation failure. To address this, we present Rectified Dynamic Mesh (R-DMesh), a unified framework designed to generate high-fidelity 4D meshes that are ``rectified'' to align with video context. Unlike standard motion transfer approaches, our method introduces a novel VAE that explicitly disentangles the input into a conditional base mesh, relative motion trajectories, and a crucial rectification jump offset. This offset is learned to automatically transform the arbitrary pose of the input mesh to match the video's initial state before animation begins. We process these components via a Triflow Attention mechanism, which leverages vertex-wise geometric features to modulate the three orthogonal flows, ensuring physical consistency and local rigidity during the rectification and animation process. For generation, we employ a Rectified Flow-based Diffusion Transformer conditioned on pre-trained video latents, effectively transferring rich spatio-temporal priors to the 3D domain. To support this task, we construct Video-RDMesh, a large-scale dataset of over 500k dynamic mesh sequences specifically curated to simulate pose misalignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that R-DMesh not only solves the alignment problem but also enables robust downstream applications, including pose retargeting and holistic 4D generation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces R-DMesh, a unified framework for video-guided 3D animation that resolves pose misalignment between user-provided static meshes and reference videos. It uses a VAE to disentangle the input into a conditional base mesh, relative motion trajectories, and a rectification jump offset, which is learned to align the mesh pose with the video's initial frame. These are processed using Triflow Attention for physical consistency and a Rectified Flow-based Diffusion Transformer conditioned on video latents. A new Video-RDMesh dataset with over 500k sequences is constructed to support training and evaluation.

Significance. If the learned rectification offset and Triflow Attention successfully maintain geometric fidelity and physical consistency without distortion, the method could significantly improve practical deployment of 4D mesh animation from videos by handling arbitrary input poses, enabling applications like pose retargeting and holistic 4D generation in content creation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The rectification jump offset is described only as 'learned to automatically transform the arbitrary pose of the input mesh to match the video's initial state', with no specification of its parameterization (rigid 6-DoF vs. per-vertex displacement field), associated loss terms for rigidity/alignment, or supervision details from the Video-RDMesh data. This is load-bearing for the central claim that the offset prevents geometric distortion before Triflow Attention is applied.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that 'extensive experiments demonstrate that R-DMesh not only solves the alignment problem' is unsupported by any reported quantitative metrics, ablation results, error analysis, or verification that the offset avoids introducing distortion; without these, the effectiveness of the VAE disentanglement and downstream consistency cannot be assessed.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'Triflow Attention' is introduced without a brief inline description of how it modulates the three orthogonal flows using vertex-wise features, which would improve immediate clarity for readers.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review; exact free parameters in the diffusion transformer and VAE training are not specified. The rectification offset is presented as learned, implying it functions as a fitted component. Physical consistency is asserted via Triflow Attention without independent proof.

free parameters (1)
  • rectification jump offset
    Learned parameter inside the VAE that maps arbitrary input pose to video initial state; its value is fitted during training on the Video-RDMesh dataset.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Triflow Attention on vertex-wise geometric features guarantees physical consistency and local rigidity during rectification and animation
    Invoked as the mechanism that prevents distortion after applying the offset.
invented entities (1)
  • rectification jump offset no independent evidence
    purpose: Transform arbitrary mesh pose to match video starting frame before motion transfer
    New component introduced to solve the pose misalignment dilemma; no external falsifiable evidence provided in abstract.

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