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About this paper

Long Xu, Zhiqi Zhang, Mi Yan, Shengliang Deng, Chong Xia, Mingyu Dong, Jiayi Chen, Jiangran Lyu and 3 more

GIF generates task-ready compositions of rigid object pairs from language or image prompts. Its pipeline reconstructs objects separately, refines their relative poses, and checks whether the intended contact survives simulation. On a 120-scene benchmark, it averages 7.82/10 in language-prompt Relationship Matching versus 6.33 for SceneSmith. Its language-prompt collision rate is 0.008; real-robot tests cover only two tasks.

Key insights

  • Disentangled 2D-3D generative asset construction (CoGen) effectively mitigates issues of object fusion and incompleteness caused by occlusion in contact-rich scenes, providing better initial meshes and poses.
  • Combining geometry-guided and physics-guided pose refinement, including black-box simulation feedback, is crucial for achieving physically stable and functionally precise object compositions.
  • VLM-based verification and selection at multiple stages ensure high-quality, simulation-ready scenes that accurately reflect target relations and physical stability.

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