{"url":"/dataset/deformingthings4d","name":"DeformingThings4D","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"**DeformingThings4D** is a synthetic dataset containing 1,972 animation sequences spanning 31 categories of humanoids and animals. It provides 200 animations for humanoids and 1772 animations for animals. \r\n\r\n#### Use case of the dataset\r\n\r\nThe dataset is designed to tackle the following tasks using data-driven approaches:\r\n\r\n- Scene flow estimation\r\n\r\n- Non-rigid tracking/registration\r\n\r\n- Shape and motion completion\r\n\r\n- Learning riggings from observation\r\n\r\n- Generic non-rigid reconstruction\r\n\r\nSource: [DeformingThings4D dataset](https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D)\r\nImage source: [DeformingThings4D dataset](https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D","introduced_date":"2021-05-05","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/4dcomplete-non-rigid-motion-estimation-beyond","title":"4DComplete: Non-Rigid Motion Estimation Beyond the Observable Surface","first_author":"Yang Li","url":null},"license":{"name":"Custom","url":"https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D#license"},"modalities":[{"name":"Videos","url":"/datasets/modality/videos"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Point Cloud Registration","url":"/task/point-cloud-registration","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/point-cloud-registration"},{"name":"Scene Flow Estimation","url":"/task/scene-flow-estimation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/scene-flow-estimation"},{"name":"3D Feature Matching","url":"/task/3d-feature-matching","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/3d-feature-matching"},{"name":"Partial Point Cloud Matching","url":"/task/partial-point-cloud-matching","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/partial-point-cloud-matching"},{"name":"3D Point Cloud Matching","url":"/task/3d-point-cloud-matching","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/3d-point-cloud-matching"}],"languages":[],"variants":["DeformingThings4D","4DMatch"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D","url":"https://github.com/rabbityl/DeformingThings4D","frameworks":[]}],"num_papers_in_archive":42,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}