DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yuxuan, Tóthová, Katarína, Wang, Zian, Yin, Kangxue, Turki, Haithem, de Lutio, Riccardo, Chang, Yen-Yu, Litany, Or, Fidler, Sanja, Gojcic, Zan
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author Zhang, Yuxuan
Tóthová, Katarína
Wang, Zian
Yin, Kangxue
Turki, Haithem
de Lutio, Riccardo
Chang, Yen-Yu
Litany, Or
Fidler, Sanja
Gojcic, Zan
author_facet Zhang, Yuxuan
Tóthová, Katarína
Wang, Zian
Yin, Kangxue
Turki, Haithem
de Lutio, Riccardo
Chang, Yen-Yu
Litany, Or
Fidler, Sanja
Gojcic, Zan
contents Simulation is essential to the development and evaluation of autonomous robots such as self-driving vehicles. Neural reconstruction is emerging as a promising solution as it enables simulating a wide variety of scenarios from real-world data alone in an automated and scalable way. However, while methods such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting can produce visually compelling results, they often exhibit artifacts particularly when rendering novel views, and fail to realistically integrate inserted dynamic objects, especially when they were captured from different scenes. To overcome these limitations, we introduce DiffusionHarmonizer, an online generative enhancement framework that transforms renderings from such imperfect scenes into temporally consistent outputs while improving their realism. At its core is a single-step temporally-conditioned enhancer that is converted from a pretrained multi-step image diffusion model, capable of running in online simulators on a single GPU. The key to training it effectively is a custom data curation pipeline that constructs synthetic-real pairs emphasizing appearance harmonization, artifact correction, and lighting realism. The result is a scalable system that significantly elevates simulation fidelity in both research and production environments.
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spellingShingle DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer
Zhang, Yuxuan
Tóthová, Katarína
Wang, Zian
Yin, Kangxue
Turki, Haithem
de Lutio, Riccardo
Chang, Yen-Yu
Litany, Or
Fidler, Sanja
Gojcic, Zan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Simulation is essential to the development and evaluation of autonomous robots such as self-driving vehicles. Neural reconstruction is emerging as a promising solution as it enables simulating a wide variety of scenarios from real-world data alone in an automated and scalable way. However, while methods such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting can produce visually compelling results, they often exhibit artifacts particularly when rendering novel views, and fail to realistically integrate inserted dynamic objects, especially when they were captured from different scenes. To overcome these limitations, we introduce DiffusionHarmonizer, an online generative enhancement framework that transforms renderings from such imperfect scenes into temporally consistent outputs while improving their realism. At its core is a single-step temporally-conditioned enhancer that is converted from a pretrained multi-step image diffusion model, capable of running in online simulators on a single GPU. The key to training it effectively is a custom data curation pipeline that constructs synthetic-real pairs emphasizing appearance harmonization, artifact correction, and lighting realism. The result is a scalable system that significantly elevates simulation fidelity in both research and production environments.
title DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24096