Summary of Magicman: Generative Novel View Synthesis Of Humans with 3d-aware Diffusion and Iterative Refinement, by Xu He and Xiaoyu Li and Di Kang and Jiangnan Ye and Chaopeng Zhang and Liyang Chen and Xiangjun Gao and Han Zhang and Zhiyong Wu and Haolin Zhuang
MagicMan: Generative Novel View Synthesis of Humans with 3D-Aware Diffusion and Iterative Refinement
by Xu He, Xiaoyu Li, Di Kang, Jiangnan Ye, Chaopeng Zhang, Liyang Chen, Xiangjun Gao, Han Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Haolin Zhuang
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces MagicMan, a multi-view diffusion model designed to generate high-quality novel view images from a single reference image for improved 3D human reconstruction. The model leverages a pre-trained 2D diffusion model as the generative prior and the parametric SMPL-X model as the 3D body prior. To tackle challenges in maintaining consistency across different views, the paper introduces hybrid multi-view attention and geometry-aware dual branch generation methods. Additionally, an iterative refinement strategy is proposed to address ill-shaped issues arising from inaccurate SMPL-X estimation. Experimental results demonstrate that MagicMan significantly outperforms existing approaches in novel view synthesis and 3D human reconstruction tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MagicMan is a new way to create images of people from different angles using just one picture as a starting point. This can help us better understand how humans are shaped and move. The team behind MagicMan used two main ideas: a special kind of computer program that generates images, and a 3D model of the human body. They also came up with new ways to make sure these images look like real people and match what we see in the world. This is important because it can help us improve our understanding of how humans work. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Diffusion model
