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We present a system that transforms speech into physical objects using 3D generative AI and discrete robotic assembly. By leveraging natural language, the system makes design and manufacturing more accessible to people without expertise in…

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Directly learning to model 4D content, including shape, color, and motion, is challenging. Existing methods rely on pose priors for motion control, resulting in limited motion diversity and continuity in details. To address this, we propose…

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Recent conditional image synthesis approaches provide high-quality synthesized images. However, it is still challenging to accurately adjust image contents such as the positions and orientations of objects, and synthesized images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jaebong Jeong , Janghun Jo , Jingdong Wang , Sunghyun Cho , Jaesik Park

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Object compositing based on 2D images is a challenging problem since it typically involves multiple processing stages such as color harmonization, geometry correction and shadow generation to generate realistic results. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yizhi Song , Zhifei Zhang , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Brian Price , Jianming Zhang , Soo Ye Kim , Daniel Aliaga

Foundation models for 3D shape generation have recently shown a remarkable capacity to encode rich geometric priors across both global and local dimensions. However, leveraging these priors for downstream tasks can be challenging as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Maximilian Plattner , Arturs Berzins , Johannes Brandstetter

This position paper argues for the use of \emph{structured generative models} (SGMs) for the understanding of static scenes. This requires the reconstruction of a 3D scene from an input image (or a set of multi-view images), whereby the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Christopher K. I. Williams

Large-scale scene data is essential for training and testing in robot learning. Neural reconstruction methods have promised the capability of reconstructing large physically-grounded outdoor scenes from captured sensor data. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Julian Ost , Andrea Ramazzina , Amogh Joshi , Maximilian Bömer , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

We present a novel method for generating geometrically realistic and consistent orbital videos from a single image of an object. Existing video generation works mostly rely on pixel-wise attention to enforce view consistency across frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rong Wang , Ruyi Zha , Ziang Cheng , Jiayu Yang , Pulak Purkait , Hongdong Li

We introduce a new generative approach for synthesizing 3D geometry and images from single-view collections. Most existing approaches predict volumetric density to render multi-view consistent images. By employing volumetric rendering using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Salvatore Esposito , Qingshan Xu , Kacper Kania , Charlie Hewitt , Octave Mariotti , Lohit Petikam , Julien Valentin , Arno Onken , Oisin Mac Aodha

Animation elevates digital documents into immersive experiences, yet creating custom motion paths remains cumbersome, requiring designers to manually select presets, plot B\'ezier points, and configure timing properties. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mannat Khurana , Sanyam Jain , Rishav Agarwal

Generating 3D humans that functionally interact with 3D scenes remains an open problem with applications in embodied AI, robotics, and interactive content creation. The key challenge involves reasoning about both the semantics of functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jie Liu , Yu Sun , Alpar Cseke , Yao Feng , Nicolas Heron , Michael J. Black , Yan Zhang

We introduce GAUDI, a generative model capable of capturing the distribution of complex and realistic 3D scenes that can be rendered immersively from a moving camera. We tackle this challenging problem with a scalable yet powerful approach,…

We present the Shape Part Slot Machine, a new method for assembling novel 3D shapes from existing parts by performing contact-based reasoning. Our method represents each shape as a graph of ``slots,'' where each slot is a region of contact…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Kai Wang , Paul Guerrero , Vladimir Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Minhyuk Sung , Daniel Ritchie

3D shape creation and modeling remains a challenging task especially for novice users. Many methods in the field of computer graphics have been proposed to automate the often repetitive and precise operations needed during the modeling of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Ibraheem Alhashim

We propose a systematic learning-based approach to the generation of massive quantities of synthetic 3D scenes and arbitrary numbers of photorealistic 2D images thereof, with associated ground truth information, for the purposes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Chenfanfu Jiang , Siyuan Qi , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang , Jenny Lin , Lap-Fai Yu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Song-Chun Zhu

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Slava Elizarov , Ciara Rowles , Simon Donné

Generative models have shown great promise in synthesizing photorealistic 3D objects, but they require large amounts of training data. We introduce SinGRAF, a 3D-aware generative model that is trained with a few input images of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Minjung Son , Jeong Joon Park , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein

\textbf{Synthetic human dynamics} aims to generate photorealistic videos of human subjects performing expressive, intention-driven motions. However, current approaches face two core challenges: (1) \emph{geometric inconsistency} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Weiqi Li , Zehao Zhang , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Generating coherent and useful image/video scenes from a free-form textual description is technically a very difficult problem to handle. Textual description of the same scene can vary greatly from person to person, or sometimes even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Faria Huq , Nafees Ahmed , Anindya Iqbal