Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspective and relative scale.
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PXDepth is a monocular depth estimation model that separates global context modeling from pixel-level depth prediction. It uses a large-patch Vision Transformer to capture scene context and a pixel-space predictor with Context‑Modulated Pixel Transformer blocks to preserve high‑resolution spatial details. The approach maintains fine structures and sharp boundaries while achieving competitive global depth accuracy in zero‑shot benchmarks.
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.
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...
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The paper introduces GeoNeXt, a framework that repurposes pretrained video generative models for geometry estimation by framing it as a next‑frame prediction task. Unlike prior methods that either train separate depth/normal models or fine‑tune image diffusion backbones, GeoNeXt jointly models images and geometric targets, leveraging the structured knowledge of video models for more data‑efficient learning. Experiments show zero‑shot monocular depth and surface normal estimation that outperforms existing generative approaches and rivals discriminative state‑of‑the‑art methods while using far less training data.
arXiv:2609.35734v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Novel view synthesis from sparse images must reconcile faithful reconstruction of observed regions with plausible completion of unseen content, whi...