# MatAtlas: Text-driven Consistent Geometry Texturing and Material Assignment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02899 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.02899/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 44 of its 77 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Apr 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 44)

- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05543/) (2023)
- [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)
- [SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01073/) (2021)
- [Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08051/) (2022)
- [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)
- [MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16512/) (2023)
- [Blended Diffusion for Text-driven Editing of Natural Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.14818/) (2021)
- [DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.16653/) (2023)
- [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)
- [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)
- [Zero123++: a Single Image to Consistent Multi-view Diffusion Base Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15110/) (2023)
- [Latent-NeRF for Shape-Guided Generation of 3D Shapes and Textures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.07600/) (2022)
- [TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.10373/) (2023)
- [Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.17843/) (2023)
- [Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.03221/) (2021)
- [Pix2Video: Video Editing using Image Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.12688/) (2023)
- [TEXTure: Text-Guided Texturing of 3D Shapes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.01721/) (2023)
- [CLIP-Mesh: Generating textured meshes from text using pretrained image-text models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.13333/) (2022)
- [Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11989/) (2023)
- [Text2Tex: Text-driven Texture Synthesis via Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11396/) (2023)
- [Texture Fields: Learning Texture Representations in Function Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.07259/) (2019)
- [DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16818/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [Hunyuan3D 2.5: Towards High-Fidelity 3D Assets Generation with Ultimate Details](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.16504/) (2025)
- [TEXGen: a Generative Diffusion Model for Mesh Textures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.14740/) (2024)
- [Instant3dit: Multiview Inpainting for Fast Editing of 3D Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.00518/) (2024)
- [RomanTex: Decoupling 3D-aware Rotary Positional Embedded Multi-Attention Network for Texture Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.19011/) (2025)
- [SAMa: Material-aware 3D Selection and Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.19322/) (2024)
- [VideoMat: Extracting PBR Materials from Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.09665/) (2025)
- [MARBLE: Material Recomposition and Blending in CLIP-Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05313/) (2025)
- [3D Stylization via Large Reconstruction Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.21836/) (2025)
- [MaterialSeg3D: Segmenting Dense Materials from 2D Priors for 3D Assets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.13923/) (2024)
- [Im2SurfTex: Surface Texture Generation via Neural Backprojection of Multi-View Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.14006/) (2025)
- [MatCLIP: Light- and Shape-Insensitive Assignment of PBR Material Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.15981/) (2025)
- [PacTure: Efficient PBR Texture Generation on Packed Views with Visual Autoregressive Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22394/) (2025)
- [ConTEXTure: Consistent Multiview Images to Texture](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.10558/) (2024)
- [Texture Space Material Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.37654/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present MatAtlas, a method for consistent text-guided 3D model texturing. Following recent progress we leverage a large scale text-to-image generation model (e.g., Stable Diffusion) as a prior to texture a 3D model. We carefully design an RGB texturing pipeline that leverages a grid pattern diffusion, driven by depth and edges. By proposing a multi-step texture refinement process, we significantly improve the quality and 3D consistency of the texturing output. To further address the problem of baked-in lighting, we move beyond RGB colors and pursue assigning parametric materials to the assets. Given the high-quality initial RGB texture, we propose a novel material retrieval method capitalized on Large Language Models (LLM), enabling editabiliy and relightability. We evaluate our method on a wide variety of geometries and show that our method significantly outperform prior arts. We also analyze the role of each component through a detailed ablation study.