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Accurately and globally mapping human infrastructure is an important and challenging task with applications in routing, regulation compliance monitoring, and natural disaster response management etc.. In this paper we present progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Rui Zhang , Conrad Albrecht , Wei Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Ulrich Finkler , David Kung , Siyuan Lu

Generating 3D worlds from text is a highly anticipated goal in computer vision. Existing works are limited by the degree of exploration they allow inside of a scene, i.e., produce streched-out and noisy artifacts when moving beyond central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

Generating 3D scenes is a challenging open problem, which requires synthesizing plausible content that is fully consistent in 3D space. While recent methods such as neural radiance fields excel at view synthesis and 3D reconstruction, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Paul Henderson

Despite the unprecedented success of text-to-image diffusion models, controlling the number of depicted objects using text is surprisingly hard. This is important for various applications from technical documents, to children's books to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Lital Binyamin , Yoad Tewel , Hilit Segev , Eran Hirsch , Royi Rassin , Gal Chechik

For domains that involve numerical simulation, it can be computationally expensive to run an ensemble of simulations spanning a parameter space of interest to a user. To this end, an attractive surrogate for simulation is the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaohan Wang , Matthew Berger

In this paper we describe a learned method of traffic scene generation designed to simulate the output of the perception system of a self-driving car. In our "Scene Diffusion" system, inspired by latent diffusion, we use a novel combination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ethan Pronovost , Kai Wang , Nick Roy

3D asset generation is getting massive amounts of attention, inspired by the recent success of text-guided 2D content creation. Existing text-to-3D methods use pretrained text-to-image diffusion models in an optimization problem or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lukas Höllein , Aljaž Božič , Norman Müller , David Novotny , Hung-Yu Tseng , Christian Richardt , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

Diffusion and flow matching models have unlocked unprecedented capabilities for creative content creation, such as interactive image and streaming video generation. The growing demand for higher resolutions, frame rates, and context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Howard Xiao , Gordon Wetzstein

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chunming He , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Fengyang Xiao , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

We introduce X-Ray, a novel 3D sequential representation inspired by the penetrability of x-ray scans. X-Ray transforms a 3D object into a series of surface frames at different layers, making it suitable for generating 3D models from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tao Hu , Wenhang Ge , Yuyang Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

We present a diffusion-based model for 3D-aware generative novel view synthesis from as few as a single input image. Our model samples from the distribution of possible renderings consistent with the input and, even in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Eric R. Chan , Koki Nagano , Matthew A. Chan , Alexander W. Bergman , Jeong Joon Park , Axel Levy , Miika Aittala , Shalini De Mello , Tero Karras , Gordon Wetzstein

Layer compositing is one of the most popular image editing workflows among both amateurs and professionals. Motivated by the success of diffusion models, we explore layer compositing from a layered image generation perspective. Instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xinyang Zhang , Wentian Zhao , Xin Lu , Jeff Chien

Panoramic video generation aims to synthesize 360-degree immersive videos, holding significant importance in the fields of VR, world models, and spatial intelligence. Existing works fail to synthesize high-quality panoramic videos due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zixun Fang , Kai Zhu , Zhiheng Liu , Yu Liu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Video diffusion models generate high-quality and diverse worlds; however, individual frames often lack 3D consistency across the output sequence, which makes the reconstruction of 3D worlds difficult. To this end, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

The generation of 3D models from real-world objects has often been accomplished through photogrammetry, i.e., by taking 2D photos from a variety of perspectives and then triangulating matched point-based features to create a textured mesh.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jacob Rubinstein , Avi Donaty , Don Engel

Large-scale terrain scans are the basis for many important tasks, such as topographic mapping, forestry, agriculture, and infrastructure planning. The resulting point cloud data sets are so massive in size that even basic tasks like viewing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Erler , Lukas Herzberger , Michael Wimmer , Markus Schütz

Recent advancements in large generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have significantly enhanced the capabilities of image editing. However, achieving precise control over image composition tasks remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jinrui Yang , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Soo Ye Kim , Daniil Pakhomov , Mengwei Ren , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

In this study, we introduce a novel approach to synthesizing subsurface velocity models using diffusion generative models. Conventional methods rely on extensive, high-quality datasets, which are often inaccessible in subsurface…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Rafael Orozco , Felix J. Herrmann

This paper presents BrepGen, a diffusion-based generative approach that directly outputs a Boundary representation (B-rep) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model. BrepGen represents a B-rep model as a novel structured latent geometry in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiang Xu , Joseph G. Lambourne , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Zhengqing Wang , Karl D. D. Willis , Yasutaka Furukawa

Diffusion models are advancing autonomous driving by enabling realistic data synthesis, predictive end-to-end planning, and closed-loop simulation, with a primary focus on temporally consistent generation. However, large-scale 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yu Yang , Alan Liang , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Yong Liu , Gim Hee Lee