3D VADER - AutoDecoding Latent 3D Diffusion Models

Evangelos Ntavelis^1*, Aliaksandr Siarohin², Kyle Olszewski², Chaoyang Wang³, Luc Van Gool^1,4, Sergey Tulyakov²

¹Computer Vision Lab - ETH Zurich ²Snap Inc. ³CI2CV Lab - CMU ⁴ESAT - KULeuven

*Work done while interning at Snap.

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TL;DR
We generate 3D assets from diverse 2D multi-view datasets by training a 3D Diffusion model on the intermediate features of a Volumetric AutoDecodER.

Abstract

We present a novel approach to the generation of static and articulated 3D assets that has a 3D autodecoder at its core. The 3D autodecoder framework embeds properties learned from the target dataset in the latent space, which can then be decoded into a volumetric representation for rendering view-consistent appearance and geometry. We then identify the appropriate intermediate volumetric latent space, and introduce robust normalization and de-normalization operations to learn a 3D diffusion from 2D images or monocular videos of rigid or articulated objects. Our approach is flexible enough to use either existing camera supervision or no camera information at all -- instead efficiently learning it during training. Our evaluations demonstrate that our generation results outperform state-of-the-art alternatives on various benchmark datasets and metrics, including multi-view image datasets of synthetic objects, real in-the-wild videos of moving people, and a large-scale, real video dataset of static objects.

Method

Our proposed two-stage framework: Stage 1 trains an autodecoder with two generative components, G1 and G2. It learns to assign each training set object a 1D embedding that is processed by G1 into a latent volumetric space. G2 decodes these volumes into larger radiance volumes suitable for rendering. Note that we are using only 2D supervision to train the autodecoder. In Stage 2, the autodecoder parameters are frozen. Latent volumes generated by G1 are then used to train the 3D denoising diffusion process. At inference time, G1 is not used, as the generated volume is randomly sampled, denoised, and then decoded by G2 for rendering.

3D Assets Visualization

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Code

Source code will be available soon.

BibTeX

@misc{ntavelis2023autodecoding,
    title={AutoDecoding Latent 3D Diffusion Models},
    author={Evangelos Ntavelis and Aliaksandr Siarohin and Kyle Olszewski and Chaoyang Wang and Luc Van Gool and Sergey Tulyakov},
    year={2023},
    eprint={2307.05445},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Michael Vasilkovsky for preparing the ObjaVerse renderings, and Colin Eles for his support with infrastructure. Moreover, we would like to thank Norman Müller, author of DiffRF paper, for his invaluable help with setting up the DiffRF baseline, the ABO Tables and PhotoShape Chairs datasets, and the evaluation pipeline as well as answering all related questions. A true marvel of a scientist. Finally, Evan would like to thank Claire and Gio for making the best cappuccinos and fueling up this research.