arXiv AI
Sep 16

Text-Driven Artistic Staging: 3D Posing, Lighting, and Camera References from Paintings

The paper presents a method for generating 3D staging—human poses, lighting, and camera setup—directly from affective textual descriptions. It builds a dataset of 11,911 text–staging pairs derived from 2,328 figurative paintings, reconstructing SMPL bodies, estimating illumination, and recovering camera parameters. A flow‑matching transformer is trained to produce variable‑size scenes and multiple staging alternatives, achieving a 32.2% retrieval R@1 on held‑out prompts, outperforming a CLIP‑based baseline.

By Yunge Wen