MotionScape: A Motion-Stratified UAV Video Benchmark for World Modeling and Future Video Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly crucial for low-altitude autonomy and complex environment understanding. World models enable UAVs to anticipate how future states may evolve under potential actions, providing predictive support for autonomous decision-making. For video world models, future video generation serves as a means of simulating future visual states, providing a direct basis for evaluating their predictive capability. However, existing UAV video resources typically focus on specific control signals or simulated environments. Standardized benchmarks for multi-condition UAV-view future video generation are still limited. To bridge this gap, we introduce MotionScape, a real-world UAV-view benchmark comprising 228 high-resolution video clips totaling 62,700 frames, with semantic annotations of weather and illumination conditions, scene environment, and camera-viewpoint motion. The clips are stratified into low-, medium-, and high-motion strata using optical-flow-based motion intensity. MotionScape supports Text2World, Image2World, and Video2World evaluation under a unified future-generation protocol. Technical validation with representative baseline models assesses performance across conditioning settings and motion strata, providing a unified platform for evaluating the future visual simulation capabilities of UAV world models.
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