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About this paper

Vaibhav Agrawal, Rishubh Parihar, Pradhaan Bhat, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, R. Venkatesh Babu

Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad and IISc Bengaluru developed SeeThrough3D, a text-to-image generation framework that uses an Occlusion-Aware 3D Scene Representation (OSCR) to enable precise 3D layout control. This framework accurately synthesizes scenes with intricate inter-object occlusions and depth-consistent geometry, achieving superior performance over existing methods.

Key insights

  • Modeling objects as translucent 3D bounding boxes in OSCR is crucial for the generative model to explicitly reason about inter-object occlusions and maintain relative depth consistency.
  • The underlying text-to-image model (FLUX) possesses inherent priors for occlusion reasoning, which OSCR successfully leverages to achieve precise control and geometrically consistent outputs.
  • Training on a synthetically generated dataset that emphasizes challenging occlusion scenarios, filtered to remove trivial layouts, significantly enhances the model's performance in handling complex multi-object arrangements.

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