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Can I get a free-viewpoint 4D scene from one ordinary (phone) video, and how do I tell whether a monocular dynamic-scene result is real?

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The primary sources read say: not reliably. The DyCheck paper (arXiv 2210.13445v1) shows that common monocular benchmarks effectively leak multi-view signal through teleporting cameras or quasi-static scenes, and that with realistic camera motion and complex motion published NeRF-era methods lose roughly 1-2 dB (masked PSNR, no multi-view cues) and 4-5 dB (complex motion) per the abstract. The 4D-GS paper's own appendix reports overfitting to training views on monocular iPhone-style input and failure on large motion, and Dynamic 3D Gaussians states it needs a multi-camera rig. A reader can check a monocular claim by looking at how the camera moves relative to the scene (EMF), whether metrics are co-visibility masked, and whether sequences are not quasi-static. DyCheck evaluated NeRF-era models (T-NeRF, NSFF, Nerfies, HyperNeRF), not Gaussian methods; no read source reports a Gaussian method on its masked metrics.

The primary sources read say: not reliably. The DyCheck paper (arXiv 2210.13445v1) shows that common monocular benchmarks effectively leak multi-view signal through teleporting cameras or quasi-static scenes, and that with realistic camera motion and complex motion published NeRF-era methods lose roughly 1-2 dB (masked PSNR, no multi-view cues) and 4-5 dB (complex motion) per the abstract. The 4D-GS paper's own appendix reports overfitting to training views on monocular iPhone-style input and failure on large motion, and Dynamic 3D Gaussians states it needs a multi-camera rig. A reader can check a monocular claim by looking at how the camera moves relative to the scene (EMF), whether metrics are co-visibility masked, and whether sequences are not quasi-static. DyCheck evaluated NeRF-era models (T-NeRF, NSFF, Nerfies, HyperNeRF), not Gaussian methods; no read source reports a Gaussian method on its masked metrics. Curator qualifications: Excerpted evidence located (one excerpt-less row). Monocular free-viewpoint 4D is not reliable per DyCheck; D-NeRF 34.05 PSNR vs DyCheck 16-21 dB masked PSNR are different data/metrics, kept. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] The primary sources read say: not reliably. The DyCheck paper (arXiv 2210.13445v1) shows that common monocular benchmarks effectively leak multi-view signal through teleporting cameras or quasi-static scenes, and that with realistic camera motion and complex motion published NeRF-era methods lose roughly 1-2 dB (masked PSNR, no multi-view cues) and 4-5 dB (complex motion) per the abstract. The 4D-GS paper's own appendix reports overfitting to training views on monocular iPhone-style input and failure on large motion, and Dynamic 3D Gaussians states it needs a multi-camera rig. A reader can check a monocular claim by looking at how the camera moves relative to the scene (EMF), whether metrics are co-visibility masked, and whether sequences are not quasi-static. DyCheck evaluated NeRF-era models (T-NeRF, NSFF, Nerfies, HyperNeRF), not Gaussian methods; no read source reports a Gaussian method on its masked metrics. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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