PhyMo: Learning Physical Dynamics with Accurate and Continuous Motion from Multi-View Videos

Shangjia Liu, Jinxi Li, Siyuan Zhou, Bo Yang, Bing Wang

Recovering dynamic 3D scene geometry, appearance, and the physical motion states that govern scene evolution from multi-view videos is important yet challenging. A key difficulty is that appearance can be deceptive. Under rendering supervision alone, a model may fit the observed images by changing color or opacity to compensate for inaccurate deformation, rather than recovering the true evolving geometry and motion. This issue is especially severe in scenes with fast or locally complex motion, where inaccurate trajectories can still produce plausible images over the observed frames, but lead to unreliable reconstruction and discontinuous future prediction. In this paper, we propose PhyMo, a framework for learning evolving dynamics from multi-view videos. We introduce a Motion-Aware Trajectory Representation that drives the model to recover accurate motion from deformation, rather than relying on appearance shortcuts to explain observed motion. On top of this, we propose a Continuous Motion Evolution module with bidirectional kinematic continuity constraint to promote temporally consistent evolution of displacement, velocity, and acceleration. Together, these designs yield…