# Style-NeRF2NeRF: 3D Style Transfer From Style-Aligned Multi-View Images

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13393 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.13393/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 51 of its 63 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 19 Jun 2024.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [Image generation, text-to-image and editing](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/image-generation-text-to-image-and-editing/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 51)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [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)
- [Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.13456/) (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)
- [3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04079/) (2023)
- [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)
- [SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.01952/) (2023)
- [Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.05989/) (2022)
- [DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14988/) (2022)
- [Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.08155/) (2016)
- [InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09800/) (2022)
- [Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01626/) (2022)
- [Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12077/) (2021)
- [Arbitrary Style Transfer in Real-time with Adaptive Instance Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06868/) (2017)
- [SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01073/) (2021)
- [Plenoxels: Radiance Fields without Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.05131/) (2021)
- [Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-shot Cross-dataset Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.01341/) (2019)
- [NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.02268/) (2020)
- [Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09794/) (2022)
- [Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09276/) (2022)
- [Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11215/) (2021)
- [Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.12572/) (2022)
- [FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.01925/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [Tinker: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.14811/) (2025)
- [3D Stylization via Large Reconstruction Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.21836/) (2025)
- [StyleSculptor: Zero-Shot Style-Controllable 3D Asset Generation with Texture-Geometry Dual Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.13301/) (2025)
- [Generative Object Insertion in Gaussian Splatting with a Multi-View Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.16938/) (2024)
- [ArtNVG: Content-Style Separated Artistic Neighboring-View Gaussian Stylization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18783/) (2024)
- [Voxify3D: Pixel Art Meets Volumetric Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07834/) (2025)
- [GuideFlow3D: Optimization-Guided Rectified Flow For Appearance Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.16136/) (2025)
- [Tune-Your-Style: Intensity-tunable 3D Style Transfer with Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.00618/) (2026)
- [TRACE: High-Fidelity 3D Scene Editing via Tangible Reconstruction and Geometry-Aligned Contextual Video Masking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.01207/) (2026)
- [Improved 3D Scene Stylization via Text-Guided Generative Image Editing with Region-Based Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.05285/) (2025)
- [Jigsaw3D: Disentangled 3D Style Transfer via Patch Shuffling and Masking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.10497/) (2025)
- [LouvreSAE: Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable and Controllable Style Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.18930/) (2025)
- [Incremental Multi-Scene Modeling via Continual Neural Graphics Primitives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.19903/) (2024)
- [Training-Free Instance-Aware 3D Scene Reconstruction and Diffusion-Based View Synthesis from Sparse Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.21166/) (2026)
- [DReSG: Diffusion Residuals for Stylized Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.29048/) (2026)
- [Stabilizing Camera-Controlled Novel View Synthesis at Inference Time](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.03639/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a simple yet effective pipeline for stylizing a 3D scene, harnessing the power of 2D image diffusion models. Given a NeRF model reconstructed from a set of multi-view images, we perform 3D style transfer by refining the source NeRF model using stylized images generated by a style-aligned image-to-image diffusion model. Given a target style prompt, we first generate perceptually similar multi-view images by leveraging a depth-conditioned diffusion model with an attention-sharing mechanism. Next, based on the stylized multi-view images, we propose to guide the style transfer process with the sliced Wasserstein loss based on the feature maps extracted from a pre-trained CNN model. Our pipeline consists of decoupled steps, allowing users to test various prompt ideas and preview the stylized 3D result before proceeding to the NeRF fine-tuning stage. We demonstrate that our method can transfer diverse artistic styles to real-world 3D scenes with competitive quality. Result videos are also available on our project page: https://haruolabs.github.io/style-n2n/
