arXiv AI

Physically Based Rendering in the Latent Space

The paper introduces a method that applies physically based rendering (PBR) within the latent space of variational autoencoders used in image diffusion models. By modifying the rendering equation and using a differentiable renderer, the authors can generate latent maps that guide content creation with physically accurate lighting. The approach is trained on a single rendered image and then shown to generalize to changes in scene geometry, lighting, and camera viewpoint.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

GAE: Learning a Geometry-Native Latent Space for 3D-Consistent World Generation

The paper introduces the Geometry‑Native Autoencoder (GAE), a compact latent space that can be decoded into appearance, depth, camera parameters, and point maps, enabling 3D‑consistent world generation. By reparameterizing a geometry foundation model’s features, GAE replaces traditional appearance‑centric latents and improves visual quality and 3D coherence, achieving significant reductions in FVD and camera‑trajectory error on benchmark datasets. The work demonstrates that a geometry‑native latent space can serve as a shared interface between perception and generation models.

By Jiahao Lu, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Hengyu Liu, Wang Zhao, Sai-Kit Yeung, Ying Shan, Yuan Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Latent Spatial Memory for Video World Models

The paper introduces latent spatial memory, a 3D cache that stores scene information directly in diffusion latent space, eliminating the need for pixel-space reconstruction. It presents Mirage, a framework that lifts latent tokens into 3D using depth-guided back‑projection and queries the memory via latent‑space warping, achieving significant speed and memory gains. Experiments demonstrate up to 10.57× faster video generation, a 55× reduction in memory usage, and state‑of‑the‑art performance on WorldScore and strong reconstruction on RealEstate10K.

By Weijie Wang, Haoyu Zhao, Yifan Yang, Feng Chen, Zeyu Zhang, Yefei He, Zicheng Duan, Donny Y. Chen, Yuqing Yang, Bohan Zhuang