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Accelerating 3D Deep Learning with PyTorch3D

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Deep learning has significantly improved 2D image recognition. Extending into 3D may advance many new applications including autonomous vehicles, virtual and augmented reality, authoring 3D content, and even improving 2D recognition. However despite growing interest, 3D deep learning remains relatively underexplored. We believe that some of this disparity is due to the engineering challenges involved in 3D deep learning, such as efficiently processing heterogeneous data and reframing graphics operations to be differentiable. We address these challenges by introducing PyTorch3D, a library of modular, efficient, and differentiable operators for 3D deep learning. It includes a fast, modular differentiable renderer for meshes and point clouds, enabling analysis-by-synthesis approaches. Compared with other differentiable renderers, PyTorch3D is more modular and efficient, allowing users to more easily extend it while also gracefully scaling to large meshes and images. We compare the PyTorch3D operators and renderer with other implementations and demonstrate significant speed and memory improvements. We also use PyTorch3D to improve the state-of-the-art for unsupervised 3D mesh and point cloud prediction from 2D images on ShapeNet. PyTorch3D is open-source and we hope it will help accelerate research in 3D deep learning.

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Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

cs.GR · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Meschers are a new mesh representation for impossible geometric objects grounded in discrete exterior calculus that supports full discrete geometry processing including inverse rendering.

UIKA: Fast Universal Head Avatar from Pose-Free Images

cs.CV · 2026-01-12 · conditional · novelty 7.0

UIKA is a feed-forward animatable Gaussian head model using UV-guided correspondence estimation and learnable UV tokens with dual-level attention, trained on large-scale synthetic data to handle pose-free inputs.

Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects

cs.CV · 2023-07-11 · accept · novelty 7.0

Objaverse-XL supplies over 10 million diverse 3D objects that, when used to render 100 million views, improve zero-shot novel-view synthesis in models such as Zero123.

Visually-grounded Humanoid Agents

cs.CV · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A coupled world-agent framework uses 3D Gaussian reconstruction and first-person RGB-D perception with iterative planning to enable goal-directed, collision-avoiding humanoid behavior in novel reconstructed scenes.

Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions

cs.CV · 2023-05-03 · accept · novelty 6.0

Shap-E encodes 3D assets into implicit function parameters then uses a conditional diffusion model to generate new ones from text, enabling fast multi-representation 3D asset creation.

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