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Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 23, 2026 · UTC

Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at times a robot has not yet observed. Existing representations of pedestrian motion face a tradeoff: they either forecast future activity, reducing each location to a scalar rate, or model the full directional distribution, holding it fixed in time. We present Kairos, a predictive directional-flow memory that extends a hierarchical 3D scene graph (3DSG) to a 4D scene graph (4DSG). Every observed voxel of the reconstructed geometry stores a directional mixture and a presence rate, and spec

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