# HarmonyView: Harmonizing Consistency and Diversity in One-Image-to-3D

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15980 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.15980/

## Key facts

- Cited by 28 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 79 of its 91 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Dec 2023.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [3D, point cloud and scene generation](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/3d-point-cloud-and-scene-generation/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 79)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05233/) (2021)
- [Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.03585/) (2015)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12092/) (2021)
- [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10741/) (2021)
- [DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14988/) (2022)
- [ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03012/) (2015)
- [CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.08718/) (2021)
- [RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.12039/) (2020)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.10689/) (2021)
- [Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-shot Cross-dataset Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.01341/) (2019)
- [Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11328/) (2023)
- [Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.10440/) (2022)
- [ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.16213/) (2023)
- [Learning Implicit Fields for Generative Shape Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02822/) (2018)
- [A Point Set Generation Network for 3D Object Reconstruction from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.00603/) (2016)
- [MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16512/) (2023)
- [Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08751/) (2022)
- [Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15008/) (2023)
- [Fantasia3D: Disentangling Geometry and Appearance for High-quality Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13873/) (2023)
- [Pixel2Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh Models from Single RGB Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.01654/) (2018)
- [SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.03453/) (2023)
- [Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11918/) (2022)
- [Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00774/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 28 of 28)

- [Efficient4D: Fast Dynamic 3D Object Generation from a Single-view Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.08742/) (2024)
- [GeoLRM: Geometry-Aware Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality 3D Gaussian Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.15333/) (2024)
- [LLMs Meet Multimodal Generation and Editing: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.19334/) (2024)
- [SplatFlow: Multi-View Rectified Flow Model for 3D Gaussian Splatting Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.16443/) (2024)
- [Prometheus: 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models for Feed-Forward Text-to-3D Scene Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.21117/) (2024)
- [Make-Your-3D: Fast and Consistent Subject-Driven 3D Content Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09625/) (2024)
- [Switch Diffusion Transformer: Synergizing Denoising Tasks with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09176/) (2024)
- [MaterialMVP: Illumination-Invariant Material Generation via Multi-view PBR Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10289/) (2025)
- [Denoising Task Difficulty-based Curriculum for Training Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10348/) (2024)
- [MVD2: Efficient Multiview 3D Reconstruction for Multiview Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.14253/) (2024)
- [SteerX: Creating Any Camera-Free 3D and 4D Scenes with Geometric Steering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.12024/) (2025)
- [VideoRFSplat: Direct Scene-Level Text-to-3D Gaussian Splatting Generation with Flexible Pose and Multi-View Joint Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.15855/) (2025)
- [Flex3D: Feed-Forward 3D Generation with Flexible Reconstruction Model and Input View Curation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.00890/) (2024)
- [LiftImage3D: Lifting Any Single Image to 3D Gaussians with Video Generation Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.09597/) (2024)
- [Diffusion Model Patching via Mixture-of-Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.17825/) (2024)
- [Text-to-3D by Stitching a Multi-view Reconstruction Network to a Video Generator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.13454/) (2025)
- [ReDirector: Creating Any-Length Video Retakes with Rotary Camera Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.19827/) (2025)
- [Zero-1-to-G: Taming Pretrained 2D Diffusion Model for Direct 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.05427/) (2025)
- [C2FG: Control Classifier-Free Guidance via Score Discrepancy Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.08155/) (2026)
- [GeoGS3D: Single-view 3D Reconstruction via Geometric-aware Diffusion Model and Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10242/) (2024)
- [Bootstrap3D: Improving Multi-view Diffusion Model with Synthetic Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.00093/) (2024)
- [Jointly Generating Multi-view Consistent PBR Textures using Collaborative Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.06985/) (2024)
- [Appreciate the View: A Task-Aware Evaluation Framework for Novel View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.12675/) (2025)
- [Automatic Scene Generation: State-of-the-Art Techniques, Models, Datasets, Challenges, and Future Prospects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.01816/) (2024)
- [Enhancing Single Image to 3D Generation using Gaussian Splatting and Hybrid Diffusion Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.09467/) (2024)
- [OneNet: A Channel-Wise 1D Convolutional U-Net](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.09838/) (2024)
- [ConsistentDreamer: View-Consistent Meshes Through Balanced Multi-View Gaussian Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.09278/) (2025)
- [Opening the Black Box of Classifier-Free Guidance via Information Bottleneck](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.13369/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent progress in single-image 3D generation highlights the importance of multi-view coherency, leveraging 3D priors from large-scale diffusion models pretrained on Internet-scale images. However, the aspect of novel-view diversity remains underexplored within the research landscape due to the ambiguity in converting a 2D image into 3D content, where numerous potential shapes can emerge. Here, we aim to address this research gap by simultaneously addressing both consistency and diversity. Yet, striking a balance between these two aspects poses a considerable challenge due to their inherent trade-offs. This work introduces HarmonyView, a simple yet effective diffusion sampling technique adept at decomposing two intricate aspects in single-image 3D generation: consistency and diversity. This approach paves the way for a more nuanced exploration of the two critical dimensions within the sampling process. Moreover, we propose a new evaluation metric based on CLIP image and text encoders to comprehensively assess the diversity of the generated views, which closely aligns with human evaluators' judgments. In experiments, HarmonyView achieves a harmonious balance, demonstrating a win-win scenario in both consistency and diversity.