arXiv Computer Vision

Reconstruction of a 3D wireframe from a single line drawing via generative depth estimation

The paper presents a method for reconstructing 3D wireframes from single 2D line drawings by treating the task as conditional depth estimation. It uses a Latent Diffusion Model with spatial conditioning on the sketch and optional partial-depth cues to predict depth for each drawn pixel, producing a 3D wireframe that faithfully matches the visible strokes. Trained on over three million synthetic image‑depth pairs from CAD wireframes, the approach achieves a best‑of‑five normalized depth error of 3.9% and demonstrates robust performance across varying shape complexities.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Zero-Shot Novel Depth Synthesis Using 3D Foundation Models Scene Representations

The paper introduces Z3D, a method that leverages internal representations from 3D Foundation Models (3DFMs) to perform zero‑shot novel depth synthesis. By decoding hidden surfaces and applying latent diffusion on 3DFM representations, Z3D can estimate realistic depth maps for unseen views across multiple datasets. This demonstrates that 3DFMs capture extensive general knowledge about 3D scenes, enabling accurate reconstruction without additional training.

By Denis M. Akola, David F. Fouhey
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Zero-Shot Novel Depth Synthesis Using 3D Foundation Models Scene Representations

The paper explores how 3D Foundation Models (3DFMs) like VGGT can be leveraged for zero‑shot depth synthesis. By decoding hidden surfaces from the models’ internal representations, the authors introduce Z3D, a method that uses latent diffusion on 3DFM representations to estimate pointmaps in unseen views. Experiments demonstrate that Z3D can generate realistic depth maps across multiple datasets.

arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

VGGT-CAD: Reconstructing Parametric CAD 3D Model with Geometric Grounding

VGGT-CAD is a geometry‑aware framework that reconstructs parametric CAD 3D models from single and multi‑view images. It incorporates pretrained 3D geometric priors by encoding camera parameters as condition tokens and jointly modeling them with image tokens. The method introduces a variable‑view cross‑view context aggregation module and a training‑free geometry‑aware view selection strategy, and decodes the learned representation into CAD command sequences using a non‑autoregressive decoder. Additionally, VideoCAD, a large‑scale multi‑view video benchmark derived from existing CAD data, is presented to evaluate the approach.

By Chunan Yu, Tianrun Chen, Fu Shen, Cheng Chen, Lanyun Zhu, Yang Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization

arXiv:2605. 01171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent progress, recovering parametric CAD construction sequences from geometric input, such as meshes or point clouds, is a key challenge for design and manufacturing, as existing CAD reconstruction and generation methods are largely restricted to difficult-to-edit formats like meshes or Breps or editable simple sketch-and-extrude pipelines and low-complexity datasets.

By Ghadi Nehme, Eamon Whalen, Faez Ahmed