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DreamTraj: Generating 6-DoF Object Trajectories by Reading Unrendered Video Diffusion Latents

Tongsheng Ding, Zhen Luo, Yixuan Yang, Boyu Wang, Luyang Xie, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng

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Published 2026-08-01 · First seen 2026-08-04

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Accurate prediction of object trajectories during manipulation is essential for closing the perception-action loop. Progress is limited on two fronts: available datasets lack fine-grained language-to-motion annotations, and existing predictors either rely on privileged inputs such as video, depth, or CAD models, or recover motion from fully generated videos through costly, error-prone perception pipelines. We close the supervision gap with the MOVE dataset, 5,038 object-centric egocentric trajectories, each paired with a fine-grained natural-language instruction rather than a coarse verb-noun label. We further propose DreamTraj, which predicts a 6-DoF object trajectory from a single RGB image and a task instruction, requiring no video, depth, or CAD model at inference: rather than generating a video, it reads motion from the internal representations of a frozen image-to-video diffusion model at an early denoising step. A lightweight flow-matching Reader decodes query-key attention tracks and pooled hidden states into relative 6-DoF poses. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to directly decode object 6-DoF trajectories from intermediate video diffusion representations rather than generated pixels. DreamTraj sets a new state of the art on both translation and rotation against forecasters that consume multi-frame or privileged inputs, and runs 4.6x faster than generate-then-extract pipelines.

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@misc{ding2026dreamtraj,
  title = {DreamTraj: Generating 6-DoF Object Trajectories by Reading Unrendered Video Diffusion Latents},
  author = {Tongsheng Ding and Zhen Luo and Yixuan Yang and Boyu Wang and Luyang Xie and Jinyu Yang and Feng Zheng},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Accurate prediction of object trajectories during manipulation is essential for closing the perception-action loop. Progress is limited on two fronts: available datasets lack fine-grained language-to-motion annotations, and existing predictors either rely on privileged inputs such as video, depth, or CAD models, or recover motion from fully generated videos through costly, error-prone perception pipelines. We close the supervision gap with the MOVE dataset, 5,038 object-centric egocentric trajec},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.00486},
  keywords = {huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2608.00486},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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