Scaling4D: Pushing the Frontier of Video Novel View Synthesis through Large-Scale Monocular Videos

Hongrui Cai, Junjie Luo, Zhihong Fu, Shengnan Zhu, Jiawei Wen, Wanquan Feng, Songtao Zhao, Qian He; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 11174-11184

Video Novel View Synthesis (VNVS) aims to render arbitrary novel viewpoints of dynamic scenes from a single-view video, but its algorithmic training faces a major challenge: the lack of large-scale multi-view video datasets. Prior methods often train on monocular data by framing it as an inpainting task, which typically leads to a training-inference gap and visual artifacts. While synthetic multi-view data can partially alleviate the data scarcity issue, its high acquisition costs and limited diversity restrict scalability. To address these problems, we propose Scaling4D, a novel strategy that theoretically bridges the training-inference gap while leveraging large-scale monocular videos for training. Specifically, we take a higher-level perspective on the problem, reformulating VNVS into a general correspondence-guided generation task. Furthermore, in conjunction with extensive real-world data, we establish a synthetic data pipeline integrated with our training strategy to enhance precision. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate a positive correlation between performance and training data volume, confirming the scalability.