DreamTexture: Shape from Virtual Texture with Analysis by Augmentation

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Main Authors: Bhattarai, Ananta R., He, Xingzhe, Sheffer, Alla, Rhodin, Helge
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Published: 2025
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author Bhattarai, Ananta R.
He, Xingzhe
Sheffer, Alla
Rhodin, Helge
author_facet Bhattarai, Ananta R.
He, Xingzhe
Sheffer, Alla
Rhodin, Helge
contents DreamFusion established a new paradigm for unsupervised 3D reconstruction from virtual views by combining advances in generative models and differentiable rendering. However, the underlying multi-view rendering, along with supervision from large-scale generative models, is computationally expensive and under-constrained. We propose DreamTexture, a novel Shape-from-Virtual-Texture approach that leverages monocular depth cues to reconstruct 3D objects. Our method textures an input image by aligning a virtual texture with the real depth cues in the input, exploiting the inherent understanding of monocular geometry encoded in modern diffusion models. We then reconstruct depth from the virtual texture deformation with a new conformal map optimization, which alleviates memory-intensive volumetric representations. Our experiments reveal that generative models possess an understanding of monocular shape cues, which can be extracted by augmenting and aligning texture cues -- a novel monocular reconstruction paradigm that we call Analysis by Augmentation.
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spellingShingle DreamTexture: Shape from Virtual Texture with Analysis by Augmentation
Bhattarai, Ananta R.
He, Xingzhe
Sheffer, Alla
Rhodin, Helge
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
DreamFusion established a new paradigm for unsupervised 3D reconstruction from virtual views by combining advances in generative models and differentiable rendering. However, the underlying multi-view rendering, along with supervision from large-scale generative models, is computationally expensive and under-constrained. We propose DreamTexture, a novel Shape-from-Virtual-Texture approach that leverages monocular depth cues to reconstruct 3D objects. Our method textures an input image by aligning a virtual texture with the real depth cues in the input, exploiting the inherent understanding of monocular geometry encoded in modern diffusion models. We then reconstruct depth from the virtual texture deformation with a new conformal map optimization, which alleviates memory-intensive volumetric representations. Our experiments reveal that generative models possess an understanding of monocular shape cues, which can be extracted by augmenting and aligning texture cues -- a novel monocular reconstruction paradigm that we call Analysis by Augmentation.
title DreamTexture: Shape from Virtual Texture with Analysis by Augmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16412