# InterOCF: Spatio-Temporal 2D-3D Interaction for Camera-Only 4D Occupancy Forecasting

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24431 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.24431/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 40 of its 50 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 40)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Camera-only 4D occupancy forecasting enables autonomous vehicles to predict future 3D semantic scenes solely from historical multi-view images, which is critical for driving safety. Even though current methods have achieved good performance, the strong spatial-temporal modeling between the input multi-view frames is still underexplored, which limits the performance of those methods in future 4D forecasting. To address this gap, we introduce a novel framework, InterOCF, for 4D occupancy forecasting that jointly models temporal dynamics in both 3D voxel-based representations and multi-view segmentation sequences, while explicitly incorporating feature interaction between the 2D and 3D branches. Our framework incorporates three core components: 1) A 3D Spatio-Temporal (3DST) module that learns volumetric dynamics from historical voxel states to predict future voxel states; 2) A 2D Spatio-Temporal (2DST) module employing an auxiliary multi-view temporal segmentation forecasting task to enhance temporal semantic dynamics; 3) A Spatio-Temporal Interaction Modeling (STIM) module that enables feature interaction between 2D and 3D representations. Experiments on the nuScenes, Lyft-Level5, and nuScenes-Occupancy datasets show that InterOCF consistently outperforms existing baseline approaches.
