arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

DirectUV: Image-Conditioned UV Texture Generation with Surface-Aware Positional Encoding

DirectUV is an image-conditioned UV texture diffusion framework that generates high-quality textures directly in UV space using a pretrained image VAE and a Diffusion Transformer. It introduces Surface-Aware Positional Encoding (SAPE), which replaces standard 2D-grid positional encoding with encodings derived from 3D surface coordinates, enabling attention to operate based on surface proximity rather than UV-grid distance. A multi-level extension assigns different attention heads to progressively finer subdivisions of the UV patch, allowing the model to reason about surface structure at multiple granularities, resulting in sharper and more globally consistent textures, especially in occluded and view-unseen regions.

By Jiantao Lin, Yingjie Xu, Mingzhi Sheng, Yangkai Wei, Hao Chen, Ying-Cong Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

Anchor3DGS: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Compact Anchor-Based Representation

Anchor3DGS introduces a pose‑free, feed‑forward 3D Gaussian Splatting framework that replaces pixel‑aligned Gaussian prediction with a compact anchor‑based representation. By placing 3D anchors guided by information entropy, the method concentrates primitives in visually complex regions while ensuring broad spatial coverage, and each anchor aggregates multi‑view features to generate local Gaussians. A lightweight feature enhancement module refines the coarse RGB output, resulting in state‑of‑the‑art novel view synthesis quality with an order of magnitude fewer Gaussian primitives than prior approaches.

By Sheng Ye, Jiangke Lin, Fudong Wang, Yi Yuan, Zhen-Hui Dong, Yong-Jin Liu