Large-scale text-to-image models are attractive backbones for dense prediction because RGB generation pretraining learns rich semantic, structural, and geometric priors. Existing generative and editing approaches reuse these priors by casting dense prediction as target generation: annotations such as depth, normals, alpha mattes, masks, and heatmaps are encoded into an RGB-trained VAE latent space and decoded back as image-like targets.
Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspective and relative scale.
arXiv:2608. 08676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic vision encoders have become a central visual interface for multimodal understanding and semantic conditioning in image generation.
PixelUMM is an encoder‑free model that unifies image and video understanding and generation directly in pixel space. It represents images as spatial patches and videos as spatiotemporal tubelets, feeding both through single‑layer linear projections into a shared multimodal backbone. The Mixture‑of‑Transformers architecture blends shared attention with task‑specific parameters, enabling autoregressive text prediction, pixel‑space flow matching, and clean‑pixel video generation, and experiments show competitive performance across tasks while providing design insights for future pixel‑space multimodal models.
arXiv:2606.13345v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing 3D scene editing methods typically rely on per-scene optimization over explicit 3D representations or cascaded edit-and-reconstruct pipeli...
arXiv:2609.23796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-image 3D object generation can now produce high-fidelity assets, yet accurately placing them into a coherent scene layout remains an open challe...
arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
arXiv:2609.23796v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Single-image 3D object generation can now produce high-fidelity assets, yet accurately placing them into a coherent scene layout remains an open ch...
arXiv:2608.23549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rendering views using 3D scene representations such as Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), meshes, or even point clouds produces...
arXiv:2607.18227v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In line with the prevailing direction of vision research, we explore the integration of both generation and editing capabilities for video and imag...
arXiv:2605. 18714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture.
arXiv:2604. 20329v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent works show that image and video generators exhibit zero-shot visual understanding behaviors, in a way reminiscent of how LLMs develop emergent capabilities of language understanding and reasoning from generative pretraining.
arXiv:2608. 09133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image super-resolution (SR) with large generative models has recently achieved remarkable perceptual quality, yet maintaining fidelity to the LR observation remains challenging.