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Apple unveils Luce for high-fidelity 3D asset generation

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Apple Machine Learning Research has introduced Luce, a novel 3D asset generation system that unifies geometry and physically based rendering (PBR) materials within a voxelized multimodal Gaussian cloud. This representation allows for relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines by incorporating modalities like albedo, metallic-roughness, and surface normals. Luce utilizes a variational autoencoder and a rectified-flow transformer to generate these PBR Gaussians from a single image, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Toys4K benchmark with a 28% FID improvement and enhancing CLIP image-alignment scores. AI

IMPACT This research could advance the creation of realistic 3D assets for gaming, film, and virtual environments.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel 3D asset generation method.

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Apple unveils Luce for high-fidelity 3D asset generation

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  1. Apple Machine Learning Research TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation

    High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representation should include physically based rendering (PBR) modalities such as albedo, met…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mayank Singh, Michele Stoppa, Alvise Memo, Rui Yu, Harsha Kalli, Srimanth Gunturi, Muhammad Ahmed Riaz, Behrooz Shahsavari, Waleed Abdulla, David E. Jacobs ·

    Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation

    arXiv:2608.23943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representation should include physically ba…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation

    Luce unifies geometry and PBR materials in a voxelized Gaussian cloud, using a variational autoencoder and rectified-flow transformer to generate relightable 3D assets from single images.

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