📄 Check out our paper at arxiv.org/abs/2501.08303 and 🖥️code at github.com/Sta8is/FUTUR... to learn more about FUTURIST and its applications in autonomous systems! (9/n)
Joint work with @ikakogeorgiou.bsky.social, @spyrosgidaris.bsky.social and Nikos Komodakis

🚀 The architecture demonstrates significant performance improvements with extended training—indicating substantial potential for future enhancements (8/n)

💡 Our multimodal approach significantly outperforms single-modality variants, demonstrating the power of learning cross-modal relationships (7/n)

📈 Results are impressive! We achieve state-of-the-art performance in future semantic segmentation on Cityscapes, with strong improvements in both short-term (0.18s) and mid-term (0.54s) predictions (6/n)

🎭 Key innovation #3: We developed a novel multimodal masked visual modeling objective specifically designed for future prediction tasks (5/n)

🔗 Key innovation #2: Our model features an efficient cross-modality fusion mechanism that improves predictions by learning synergies between different modalities (segmentation + depth) (4/n)

🎯 Key innovation #1: We introduce a VAE-free hierarchical tokenization process integrated directly into our transformer. This simplifies training, reduces computational overhead, and enables true end-to-end optimization (3/n)

🔍 FUTURIST employs a multimodal visual sequence transformer to directly predict multiple future semantic modalities. We focus on two key modalities: semantic segmentation and depth estimation—critical capabilities for autonomous systems operating in dynamic environments (2/n)

8/n 💡Our work shows that by leveraging the semantic power of VFMs, we create more efficient and effective future prediction systems.

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.11673
🖥️Code available at: github.com/Sta8is/DINO-...
Joint work with @ikakogeorgiou.bsky.social, @spyrosgidaris.bsky.social, N. Komodakis

7/n 🔬Interesting discovery: The intermediate features from our transformer can actually enhance the already-strong VFM features, suggesting potential for self-supervised learning.

6/n 📊And it works amazingly well! We achieve state-of-the-art results in semantic segmentation forecasting, with strong performance across multiple tasks using a single feature prediction model.

5/n 🎨The beauty of our method? It's completely modular - different task-specific heads (segmentation, depth estimation, surface normals) can be plugged in without retraining the core model.

4/n 🔄Our approach: We train a masked feature transformer to predict how VFM features change over time. These predicted features can then be used for various scene understanding tasks!

3/n 🧩Why is this important? Most existing approaches focus on pixel-level prediction, which wastes computation on irrelevant visual details. We focus directly on meaningful semantic features!

2/n 🎯Our key insight: Instead of predicting future RGB frames directly, we can forecast how semantic features from Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) evolve over time.