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DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior paper page: present DreamCraft3D, a hierarchical 3D content generation method that produces high-fidelity and coherent 3D objects. We tackle the problem by leveraging a 2D reference image to guide the stages of geometry sculpting and texture boosting. A central focus of this work is to address the consistency issue that existing works encounter. To sculpt geometries that render coherently, we perform score distillation sampling via a view-dependent diffusion model. This 3D prior, alongside several training strategies, prioritizes the geometry consistency but compromises the texture fidelity. We further propose Bootstrapped Score Distillation to specifically boost the texture. We train a personalized diffusion model, Dreambooth, on the augmented renderings of the scene, imbuing it with 3D knowledge of the scene being optimized. The score distillation from this 3D-aware diffusion prior provides view-consistent guidance for the scene. Notably, through an alternating optimization of the diffusion prior and 3D scene representation, we achieve mutually reinforcing improvements: the optimized 3D scene aids in training the scene-specific diffusion model, which offers increasingly view-consistent guidance for 3D optimization. The optimization is thus bootstrapped and leads to substantial texture boosting. With tailored 3D priors throughout the hierarchical generation, DreamCraft3D generates coherent 3D objects with photorealistic renderings, advancing the state-of-the-art in 3D content generation.

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Today, we're announcing an expansion of Vantor’s industry-leading imaging constellation—eliminating a long-standing tradeoff between accurate, high-resolution imagery and high-frequency monitoring. For the first time, both come together in a single commercial system. 20 cm-class imaging. Global revisits as often as every 15 minutes. This expansion introduces two new satellite classes: 🛰️ Vantor Vantage™, next-generation 20 cm-class imaging satellites delivering the highest commercial resolution on orbit, coming online as early as 2029 🛰️ Vantor Pulse™, a fleet of 40 cm-class satellites designed for persistent, high-frequency monitoring, coming online as early as 2027 These new satellites build on the strength of the Vantor constellation—including our WorldView Legion satellites, which already deliver the most accurate, high-resolution imagery on orbit. By increasing capacity and refresh rates, the expansion reinforces the spatial foundation behind our Tensorglobe spatial intelligence platform, powering a real-time, AI-ready view of the world in 2D and 3D. These capabilities automate the full intelligence cycle within customer environments, enabling a new level of sovereign capability that helps governments and businesses detect change, track activity, and act faster. 👉 Read the full announcement here: Total clarity from space to ground.

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24,722 views • 4 months ago

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Another city. Another full 3D Gaussian Splat reconstruction. This entire neighborhood was captured while walking with an Insta360 X5, then processed with our GPU pipeline and transformed into a high-fidelity, machine-readable 3D environment with Over the Reality. What you’re seeing is not an isolated virtual world. It’s a 3D digital twin of a real-world location, built from structured spatial data where every building, street, and detail can become usable by AI, robotics, and XR. And it’s happening at scale, across cities in more than 180 countries every day. Have an Insta360 X5 and want to become a mapper? Apply here: Want to build a 3D Gaussian Splat from a video you already recorded? Do it for free at powered by Over the Reality.

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400,097 views • 3 months ago

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HunyuanWorld-Voyager is here and fully open-source! The world’s first ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction, redefining AI-driven spatial intelligence for VR, gaming, and simulations. ✅Direct 3D Output: Exports point cloud videos to 3D formats without tools like COLMAP, enabling instant 3D application use. ✅Innovative 3D Memory: Introduces a scalable world caching mechanism, ensuring geometric consistency across any camera trajectory. ✅Top-Ranked Performance: #1 on Stanford’s WorldScore, excelling in video generation and 3D reconstruction benchmarks.( Built on HunyuanWorld 1.0, Voyager blends video generation with 3D modeling, delivering camera-controlled, high-fidelity RGB-D sequences. Control scenes via keyboard or joystick for unmatched 3D consistency. Explore now: 🌐Project Page: 🔗GitHub: 🤗HuggingFace: 📝Technical Details:

Tencent Hy

198,391 views • 11 months ago

LLaVA-3D A Simple yet Effective Pathway to Empowering LMMs with 3D-awareness Recent advancements in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have greatly enhanced their proficiency in 2D visual understanding tasks, enabling them to effectively process and understand images and videos. However, the development of LMMs with 3D-awareness for 3D scene understanding has been hindered by the lack of large-scale 3D vision-language datasets and powerful 3D encoders. In this paper, we introduce a simple yet effective framework called LLaVA-3D. Leveraging the strong 2D understanding priors from LLaVA, our LLaVA-3D efficiently adapts LLaVA for 3D scene understanding without compromising 2D understanding capabilities. To achieve this, we employ a simple yet effective representation, 3D Patch, which connects 2D CLIP patch features with their corresponding positions in 3D space. By integrating the 3D Patches into 2D LMMs and employing joint 2D and 3D vision-language instruction tuning, we establish a unified architecture for both 2D image understanding and 3D scene understanding. Experimental results show that LLaVA-3D converges 3.5x faster than existing 3D LMMs when trained on 3D vision-language datasets. Moreover, LLaVA-3D not only achieves state-of-the-art performance across various 3D tasks but also maintains comparable 2D image understanding and vision-language conversation capabilities with LLaVA.
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LLaVA-3D A Simple yet Effective Pathway to Empowering LMMs with 3D-awareness Recent advancements in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have greatly enhanced their proficiency in 2D visual understanding tasks, enabling them to effectively process and understand images and videos. However, the development of LMMs with 3D-awareness for 3D scene understanding has been hindered by the lack of large-scale 3D vision-language datasets and powerful 3D encoders. In this paper, we introduce a simple yet effective framework called LLaVA-3D. Leveraging the strong 2D understanding priors from LLaVA, our LLaVA-3D efficiently adapts LLaVA for 3D scene understanding without compromising 2D understanding capabilities. To achieve this, we employ a simple yet effective representation, 3D Patch, which connects 2D CLIP patch features with their corresponding positions in 3D space. By integrating the 3D Patches into 2D LMMs and employing joint 2D and 3D vision-language instruction tuning, we establish a unified architecture for both 2D image understanding and 3D scene understanding. Experimental results show that LLaVA-3D converges 3.5x faster than existing 3D LMMs when trained on 3D vision-language datasets. Moreover, LLaVA-3D not only achieves state-of-the-art performance across various 3D tasks but also maintains comparable 2D image understanding and vision-language conversation capabilities with LLaVA.

AK

41,747 views • 1 year ago

Physical AI needs more than maps, GPS, or pixels alone. It needs a living, geometrically accurate understanding of the real world. Niantic Spatial and Spexi are partnering to transform drone imagery into large-scale 3D intelligence for physical AI. 🔗Learn more: #NianticSpatial #Spexi #PhysicalAI #Reconstruction #GaussianSplat #DigitalTwins #Robotics #GeospatialAI #AI #GeospatialIntelligence #GEOINT #SpatialIntelligence
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Physical AI needs more than maps, GPS, or pixels alone. It needs a living, geometrically accurate understanding of the real world. Niantic Spatial and Spexi are partnering to transform drone imagery into large-scale 3D intelligence for physical AI. 🔗Learn more: #NianticSpatial #Spexi #PhysicalAI #Reconstruction #GaussianSplat #DigitalTwins #Robotics #GeospatialAI #AI #GeospatialIntelligence #GEOINT #SpatialIntelligence

Niantic Spatial 🌎

27,988 views • 2 months ago

Differentiable Blocks World: Qualitative 3D Decomposition by Rendering Primitives paper page: Given a set of calibrated images of a scene, we present an approach that produces a simple, compact, and actionable 3D world representation by means of 3D primitives. While many approaches focus on recovering high-fidelity 3D scenes, we focus on parsing a scene into mid-level 3D representations made of a small set of textured primitives. Such representations are interpretable, easy to manipulate and suited for physics-based simulations. Moreover, unlike existing primitive decomposition methods that rely on 3D input data, our approach operates directly on images through differentiable rendering. Specifically, we model primitives as textured superquadric meshes and optimize their parameters from scratch with an image rendering loss. We highlight the importance of modeling transparency for each primitive, which is critical for optimization and also enables handling varying numbers of primitives. We show that the resulting textured primitives faithfully reconstruct the input images and accurately model the visible 3D points, while providing amodal shape completions of unseen object regions. We compare our approach to the state of the art on diverse scenes from DTU, and demonstrate its robustness on real-life captures from BlendedMVS and Nerfstudio. We also showcase how our results can be used to effortlessly edit a scene or perform physical simulations.
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Differentiable Blocks World: Qualitative 3D Decomposition by Rendering Primitives paper page: Given a set of calibrated images of a scene, we present an approach that produces a simple, compact, and actionable 3D world representation by means of 3D primitives. While many approaches focus on recovering high-fidelity 3D scenes, we focus on parsing a scene into mid-level 3D representations made of a small set of textured primitives. Such representations are interpretable, easy to manipulate and suited for physics-based simulations. Moreover, unlike existing primitive decomposition methods that rely on 3D input data, our approach operates directly on images through differentiable rendering. Specifically, we model primitives as textured superquadric meshes and optimize their parameters from scratch with an image rendering loss. We highlight the importance of modeling transparency for each primitive, which is critical for optimization and also enables handling varying numbers of primitives. We show that the resulting textured primitives faithfully reconstruct the input images and accurately model the visible 3D points, while providing amodal shape completions of unseen object regions. We compare our approach to the state of the art on diverse scenes from DTU, and demonstrate its robustness on real-life captures from BlendedMVS and Nerfstudio. We also showcase how our results can be used to effortlessly edit a scene or perform physical simulations.

AK

38,571 views • 3 years ago

Excited to share this demo from Over the Reality! Watch our Unitree Go2 robodog navigating our office while reconstructing the 3D space in real-time using the VGGT-based foundation vision model. This is a prime example of machine perception in action, turning raw RGB camera feeds into rich, detailed 3D maps! The robodog's RGB cam generates a dense, textured 3D reconstruction via VGGT from a few photograms, capturing nuances like object shapes and surfaces with impressive fidelity (main view). Compare that to the standard LiDAR system (top right), it's sparser, more point-cloud focused, lacking the visual richness. Vision models are closing the gap fast! What's powering this? VGGT, a cutting-edge foundation model for 3D perception, trained on datasets orders of magnitude smaller than our massive OVER 3D maps dataset. Imagine the leap when we apply OVER's scale to VGGT-like transformer based architectures, denser reconstructions, better generalization, revolutionary for robotics, machine perception & AR! Stay tuned for more breakthroughs at the intersection of AI, robotics, and DePIN. We're building the future of Physical AI and Spatial Computing at Over the Reality 🌐 What do you think, ready for robodogs in your world? Drop your thoughts! 🤖🌐
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Excited to share this demo from Over the Reality! Watch our Unitree Go2 robodog navigating our office while reconstructing the 3D space in real-time using the VGGT-based foundation vision model. This is a prime example of machine perception in action, turning raw RGB camera feeds into rich, detailed 3D maps! The robodog's RGB cam generates a dense, textured 3D reconstruction via VGGT from a few photograms, capturing nuances like object shapes and surfaces with impressive fidelity (main view). Compare that to the standard LiDAR system (top right), it's sparser, more point-cloud focused, lacking the visual richness. Vision models are closing the gap fast! What's powering this? VGGT, a cutting-edge foundation model for 3D perception, trained on datasets orders of magnitude smaller than our massive OVER 3D maps dataset. Imagine the leap when we apply OVER's scale to VGGT-like transformer based architectures, denser reconstructions, better generalization, revolutionary for robotics, machine perception & AR! Stay tuned for more breakthroughs at the intersection of AI, robotics, and DePIN. We're building the future of Physical AI and Spatial Computing at Over the Reality 🌐 What do you think, ready for robodogs in your world? Drop your thoughts! 🤖🌐

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