OuroWorld turns static 3D scenes into endlessly looping 3D cinemagraphs
OuroWorld is a mask-free framework that turns any static 3D Gaussian Splatting scene into a 3D cinemagraph — a dynamic scene with vivid, diverse motion looping seamlessly from any viewpoint. A vision-language model infers plausible dynamics and guides a video model to synthesize a reference video, which is then lifted and completed into multi-view videos. To learn from this imperfect supervision, the authors propose Inconsistency-Robust Periodic 4DGS: a Fourier-series deformation field that guarantees looping by construction, plus a Grounded Drift Field anchored at the reference view to absorb cross-view inconsistency. On 39 reconstructed and generated scenes, OuroWorld outperforms all baselines and wins 70.8%–99.0% of user-study comparisons.
If it holds up, this could make animating static 3D assets cheaper, though it remains an early-stage preprint.
Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
arXiv:2610.12461 (cs)
[Submitted on 8 Oct 2026]
Title:OuroWorld: Bringing Any 3D World Alive as Diverse, Endlessly Looping 3D Cinemagraphs
Authors:You-Zhe Xie, Ting-Wei Chou, Yu-Hsuan Li, Kaipeng Zhang, Zhixiang Wang, Yu-Lun Liu
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