arXiv Computer Vision

Sat2City v2: Native 3D City Asset Generation from a Single Satellite Image

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery

Skyfall-GS is a hybrid framework that generates large‑scale, city‑block‑sized 3D urban scenes by combining satellite imagery for coarse geometry with open‑domain diffusion models for detailed appearance. It uses a curriculum‑driven iterative refinement to improve geometric completeness and photorealistic textures, eliminating the need for costly 3D annotations. Experiments show that Skyfall‑GS achieves better cross‑view geometry consistency and more realistic textures than existing methods.

By Jie-Ying Lee, Yi-Ruei Liu, Shr-Ruei Tsai, Wei-Cheng Chang, Chung-Ho Wu, Jiewen Chan, Zhenjun Zhao, Chieh Hubert Lin, Yu-Lun Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

SatSplatDiff: Geometry-preserving generative refinement for high-fidelity satellite Gaussian Splatting

Gaussian Splatting has been recently explored for satellite 3D reconstruction, demonstrating flexibility and efficiency in representing radiometrically diverse satellite scenes. However, the limited top viewpoint of satellite imagery results in insufficient supervision on building facades, leaving surface holes and degraded visual fidelity.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

SpatialCrafter: Single Image World Modeling with Generative 3D Proxies

SpatialCrafter introduces a two‑stage framework for single‑image world modeling that first generates a global 3D proxy using a Point‑anchored Sparse Structure Flow module, then refines appearance with a Generative Deferred Refiner built on a video diffusion model. The method incorporates Parallel Geometry Injection and Proxy‑Aware Corruption training to integrate the proxy without disrupting the pretrained generative manifold, and it is evaluated on a newly constructed dataset of 115K scenes. Experiments demonstrate that SpatialCrafter outperforms existing approaches, reducing long‑term drift and maintaining consistency under rapid camera motion and extreme viewpoints.

By Chuan Fang, Lingteng Qiu, Yixun Liang, Rui Chen, Kunming Luo, Zhaohua Zheng, Tongyuan Bai, Feipeng Tian, Zilong Dong, Zihan Zhou, Ping Tan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

PoseDreamer: Scalable and Photorealistic Human Data Generation Pipeline with Diffusion Models

PoseDreamer is a new pipeline that uses diffusion models to generate large‑scale synthetic datasets for 3D human mesh estimation, providing 3D mesh annotations that remain aligned with the generated images. The system incorporates controllable image generation, Direct Preference Optimization for control alignment, curriculum‑based hard sample mining, and multi‑stage quality filtering to produce over 500,000 high‑quality samples with a 76% improvement in image‑quality metrics over traditional rendering‑based datasets. Models trained on PoseDreamer match or surpass those trained on real‑world or conventional synthetic data, and combining PoseDreamer with synthetic datasets yields better performance than mixing real and synthetic data alone.

By Lorenza Prospero, Orest Kupyn, Ostap Viniavskyi, Jo\~ao F. Henriques, Christian Rupprecht
arXiv AI
Jun 4

SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images

arXiv:2511. 16624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present SAM 3D, a generative model for visually grounded 3D object reconstruction, predicting geometry, texture, and layout from a single image.

By SAM 3D Team, Xingyu Chen, Fu-Jen Chu, Pierre Gleize, Kevin J Liang, Alexander Sax, Hao Tang, Weiyao Wang, Michelle Guo, Thibaut Hardin, Xiang Li, Aohan Lin, Jiawei Liu, Ziqi Ma, Anushka Sagar, Bowen Song, Xiaodong Wang, Jianing Yang, Bowen Zhang, Piotr Doll\'ar, Georgia Gkioxari, Matt Feiszli, Jitendra Malik
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Benchmarking the Alignment of Data-Quality Metrics, Human Judgment and Land-Cover Segmentation Performance for Earth Observation

Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs. Synthetic data augmentation can extend existing datasets with realistic images, and the quality of these images is generally assessed through fidelity metrics such as FID, KID, IS, LPIPS and SSIM that measure structural or distributional similarity.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation

The paper introduces a framework that adapts a diffusion model to a target urban domain using only imperfect pseudo‑labels, enabling the generation of high‑fidelity, target‑aligned images from semantic maps of any synthetic dataset. By filtering poor generations, correcting image‑label misalignments, and standardising semantics, the method transforms low‑effort synthetic data into competitive real‑domain training sets. Experiments on five synthetic and two real datasets show up to +8.0 %pt mIoU improvement over state‑of‑the‑art translation methods, demonstrating that rapidly constructed synthetic datasets can match the performance of high‑effort, manually designed ones.

By Damjan Kal\v{s}an, Denis Zavadski, Tim K\"uchler, Haebom Lee, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother