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BuildAnyPoint: 3D Building Structured Abstraction from Diverse Point Clouds

arXiv 2602.23645 ↗First posted 27 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 1

On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation

Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce BuildAnyPoint, a novel generative framework for structured 3D building reconstruction from point clouds with diverse distributions, such as those captured by airborne LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion. To recover artist-created building abstraction in this highly underconstrained setting, we capitalize on the role of explicit 3D generative priors in autoregressive mesh generation. Specifically, we design a Loosely Cascaded Diffusion Transformer (Loca-DiT) that initially recovers the underlying distribution from noisy or sparse points, followed by autoregressively encapsulating them into compact meshes. We first formulate distribution recovery as a conditional generation task by training latent diffusion models conditioned on input point clouds, and then tailor a decoder-only transformer for conditional autoregressive mesh generation based on the recovered point clouds. Our method delivers substantial qualitative and quantitative improvements over prior building abstraction methods. Furthermore, the effectiveness of our approach is evidenced by the strong performance of its recovered point clouds on building point cloud completion benchmarks, which exhibit improved surface accuracy and distribution uniformity.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper 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 45 of its 59 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Feb 2026.

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45 of 59 references.

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  2. 2025Hunyuan3D 2.0: Scaling Diffusion Models for High Resolution Textured 3D Assets Generation21 Jan
  3. 2024CLAY: A Controllable Large-scale Generative Model for Creating High-quality 3D Assets30 May
  4. 2023VolumeDiffusion: Flexible Text-to-3D Generation with Efficient Volumetric Encoder18 Dec
  5. 2023PolyDiff: Generating 3D Polygonal Meshes with Diffusion Models18 Dec
  6. 2023One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization29 Jun
  7. 2023ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation25 May
  8. 20233DGen: Triplane Latent Diffusion for Textured Mesh Generation9 Mar
  9. 20233DShape2VecSet: A 3D Shape Representation for Neural Fields and Generative Diffusion Models26 Jan
  10. 2022Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts16 Dec
  11. 2022Rodin: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion12 Dec
  12. 2022Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation18 Nov
2 more
  1. 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion29 Sep
  2. 2021Diffusion Probabilistic Models for 3D Point Cloud Generation2 Mar

Other references · 31

  1. 2024Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generationcited by 742
  2. 2018PCN: Point Completion Networkcited by 382
  3. 2021PoinTr: Diverse Point Cloud Completion with Geometry-Aware Transformerscited by 284
  4. 2020PolyGen: An Autoregressive Generative Model of 3D Meshescited by 267
  5. 2023MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformerscited by 254
  6. 2023Michelangelo: Conditional 3D Shape Generation based on Shape-Image-Text Aligned Latent Representationcited by 225
  7. 2023XCube: Large-Scale 3D Generative Modeling using Sparse Voxel Hierarchiescited by 183
  8. 2020GRNet: Gridding Residual Network for Dense Point Cloud Completioncited by 174
  9. 2019PU-GAN: a Point Cloud Upsampling Adversarial Networkcited by 162
  10. 2021SnowflakeNet: Point Cloud Completion by Snowflake Point Deconvolution with Skip-Transformercited by 162
  11. 2024MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformerscited by 140
  12. 2022Neural Wavelet-domain Diffusion for 3D Shape Generationcited by 132
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  1. 2024MeshAnything V2: Artist-Created Mesh Generation With Adjacent Mesh Tokenizationcited by 102
  2. 2024MeshXL: Neural Coordinate Field for Generative 3D Foundation Modelscited by 100
  3. 2024Meshtron: High-Fidelity, Artist-Like 3D Mesh Generation at Scalecited by 87
  4. 2023AdaPoinTr: Diverse Point Cloud Completion with Adaptive Geometry-Aware Transformerscited by 65
  5. 2021Neural Points: Point Cloud Representation with Neural Fields for Arbitrary Upsamplingcited by 48
  6. 2024PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidancecited by 47
  7. 2023Building3D: An Urban-Scale Dataset and Benchmarks for Learning Roof Structures from Point Cloudscited by 24
  8. 2022City3D: Large-Scale Building Reconstruction from Airborne LiDAR Point Cloudscited by 22
  9. 2021Reconstructing Compact Building Models from Point Clouds Using Deep Implicit Fieldscited by 20
  10. 2024LoD-Loc: Aerial Visual Localization using LoD 3D Map with Neural Wireframe Alignmentcited by 12
  11. 2023PolyGNN: Polyhedron-based Graph Neural Network for 3D Building Reconstruction from Point Cloudscited by 10
  12. 2025ArcPro: Architectural Programs for Structured 3D Abstraction of Sparse Pointscited by 6
  13. 2025Parametric Point Cloud Completion for Polygonal Surface Reconstructioncited by 6
  14. 2024Arbitrary-Scale Point Cloud Upsampling by Voxel-Based Network with Latent Geometric-Consistent Learningcited by 5
  15. 2024Building-PCC: Building Point Cloud Completion Benchmarkscited by 5
  16. 2025ImmerseGen: Agent-Guided Immersive World Generation with Alpha-Textured Proxiescited by 5
  17. 2024SimpliCity: Reconstructing Buildings with Simple Regularized 3D Modelscited by 3
  18. 2025Building LOD Representation for 3D Urban Scenescited by 3
  19. 2025Artist-Created Mesh Generation from Raw Observationcited by 1

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  5. 2021A Conditional Point Diffusion-Refinement Paradigm for 3D Point Cloud Completion
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