SC-Diff: 3D Shape Completion with Latent Diffusion Models
On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation
Abstract (arXiv)
We present a novel 3D shape completion framework that unifies multimodal conditioning, leveraging both 2D images and 3D partial scans through a latent diffusion model. Shapes are represented as Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDFs) and encoded into a discrete latent space jointly supervised by 2D and 3D cues, enabling efficient high-resolution processing while reducing GPU memory usage by 30% compared to state-of-the-art methods. Our approach guides the generation process with flexible multimodal conditioning, ensuring consistent integration of 2D and 3D information from encoding to reconstruction. Our training strategy simulates realistic partial observations, avoiding assumptions about input structure and improving robustness in real-world scenarios. Leveraging our efficient latent space and multimodal conditioning, our model generalizes across object categories, outperforming class-specific models by 12% and class-agnostic models by 47% in l1 reconstruction error, while producing more diverse, realistic, and high-fidelity completions than prior approaches.
Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 38 of its 49 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2024.
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38 of 49 references.
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- 2023Point-Cloud Completion with Pretrained Text-to-image Diffusion Models18 Jun
- 2022DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion2 Dec
- 2022Diffusion-SDF: Conditional Generative Modeling of Signed Distance Functions24 Nov
- 2021A Conditional Point Diffusion-Refinement Paradigm for 3D Point Cloud Completion7 Dec
Other references · 33
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- 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
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- 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 5,466
- 2017Neural Discrete Representation Learningcited by 4,650
- 2017ScanNet: Richly-annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenescited by 3,088
- 2015ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repositorycited by 2,880
- 2019DeepSDF: Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions for Shape Representationcited by 2,682
- 2021SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 1,903
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- 2020Total3DUnderstanding: Joint Layout, Object Pose and Mesh Reconstruction for Indoor Scenes from a Single Imagecited by 170
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- 2019SG-NN: Sparse Generative Neural Networks for Self-Supervised Scene Completion of RGB-D Scanscited by 77
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- 2020SPSG: Self-Supervised Photometric Scene Generation from RGB-D Scanscited by 34
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- 2020Skeleton-bridged Point Completion: From Global Inference to Local Adjustmentcited by 23
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- 2022Learning to Complete Object Shapes for Object-level Mapping in Dynamic Scenescited by 8
- 2022Weakly-Supervised End-to-End CAD Retrieval to Scan Objectscited by 2
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- 2026TouchAnything: Diffusion-Guided 3D Reconstruction from Sparse Robot Touches10 Apr 2026
- 2026Seen2Scene: Completing Realistic 3D Scenes with Visibility-Guided Flow30 Mar 2026
- 2026Points-to-3D: Structure-Aware 3D Generation with Point Cloud Priors19 Mar 2026
- 2025OCCDiff: Occupancy Diffusion Model for High-Fidelity 3D Building Reconstruction from Noisy Point Clouds9 Dec 2025
- 2025Complete Gaussian Splats from a Single Image with Denoising Diffusion Models29 Aug 2025
- 2025Surf2CT: Cascaded 3D Flow Matching Models for Torso 3D CT Synthesis from Skin Surface28 May 2025
- 2025HoloPart: Generative 3D Part Amodal Segmentation10 Apr 2025
- 20243D Shape Completion with Test-Time Training24 Oct 2024
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