arxiv: 2604.03773 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-04 · 💻 cs.CV

M2StyleGS: Multi-Modality 3D Style Transfer with Gaussian Splatting

Xingyu Miao , Xueqi Qiu , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xian Wu , Jingjing Deng , Yang Long This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-13 17:37 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV

keywords m2stylegsstylereferencefeaturebetterclipgaussiangenerate

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M2StyleGS performs real-time multi-modal 3D style transfer on Gaussian splatting scenes by aligning CLIP-derived text-visual features to VGG style features via subdivisive flow plus observation and suppression losses, reporting up to 32.92% consistency gains.

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The method starts with a 3D scene stored as a cloud of Gaussian points that can be rendered from any viewpoint. A user supplies either a text prompt or a reference image; CLIP extracts a combined style description from it. A new subdivisive flow step maps this CLIP feature onto the style features that a VGG network would normally see, avoiding color or pattern distortions that earlier techniques produced. Two extra loss terms are added during optimization: an observation loss that pushes the rendered views to match the reference style, and a suppression loss that prevents the original scene colors from drifting too far. The result is a set of stylized images that can be viewed from new angles in real time.

Core claim

M2StyleGS can employ text or images as references to generate a set of style-enhanced novel views. Our experiments show that M2StyleGS achieves better visual quality and surpasses the previous work by up to 32.92% in terms of consistency.

Load-bearing premise

The subdivisive flow produces a precise alignment between the mapped CLIP text-visual combination feature and the VGG style feature without introducing new artifacts, and the observation and suppression losses reliably improve style matching while preserving scene content.

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Conventional 3D style transfer methods rely on a fixed reference image to apply artistic patterns to 3D scenes. However, in practical applications such as virtual or augmented reality, users often prefer more flexible inputs, including textual descriptions and diverse imagery. In this work, we introduce a novel real-time styling technique M2StyleGS to generate a sequence of precisely color-mapped views. It utilizes 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as a 3D presentation and multi-modality knowledge refined by CLIP as a reference style. M2StyleGS resolves the abnormal transformation issue by employing a precise feature alignment, namely subdivisive flow, it strengthens the projection of the mapped CLIP text-visual combination feature to the VGG style feature. In addition, we introduce observation loss, which assists in the stylized scene better matching the reference style during the generation, and suppression loss, which suppresses the offset of reference color information throughout the decoding process. By integrating these approaches, M2StyleGS can employ text or images as references to generate a set of style-enhanced novel views. Our experiments show that M2StyleGS achieves better visual quality and surpasses the previous work by up to 32.92% in terms of consistency.

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M2StyleGS adds multi-modal CLIP inputs to 3DGS style transfer via a vaguely described subdivisive flow and two new losses, but the abstract supplies no equations, ablations, or protocol details to back the 32.92% consistency claim.

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The paper's core move is to let users supply text or images as style references for 3D scenes instead of locking to one fixed picture. It builds on 3D Gaussian Splatting for the scene representation and pulls multi-modal features through CLIP, then tries to fix the usual color-shift and distortion problems with a subdivisive flow that projects the combined CLIP feature onto VGG style features plus an observation loss and a suppression loss. That combination is the actual new piece; prior 3D style work stayed image-only and didn't spell out this alignment step for mixed inputs. The practical target is clear: real-time novel views for VR/AR where text prompts are more natural than dragging reference photos. If the flow really keeps alignment invertible and the losses measurably cut artifacts while holding content, the approach would be useful engineering. The trouble is that none of this is shown. The abstract names the flow and the two losses but gives no equations, subdivision rule, or proof that it avoids mode collapse or new color offsets. The 32.92% consistency number appears without baselines, metric definitions, dataset splits, or even a sentence on how consistency was scored. Without those, the gains cannot be attributed to the method rather than implementation choices or cherry-picked views. The stress-test concern about unvalidated alignment holds up on the supplied text. This is aimed at researchers extending 3DGS to controllable stylization who already know the CLIP and VGG pipelines. A reader could pull the high-level idea for their own pipeline, but the missing technical grounding means the paper is not yet at the point where the numbers can be trusted or replicated. I would send it to peer review only if the full manuscript adds the flow construction, loss derivations, and full experimental tables; otherwise it stays at the idea stage.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces M2StyleGS, a real-time multi-modality 3D style transfer technique built on 3D Gaussian Splatting that accepts either text or image references. It refines multi-modal style information via CLIP and proposes a subdivisive flow to align the resulting features with VGG style features, together with an observation loss and a suppression loss intended to improve style fidelity while preserving scene content. The central claim is that the method produces style-enhanced novel views with better visual quality and up to 32.92% higher consistency than prior work.

Significance. If the alignment mechanism and quantitative gains are substantiated, the approach would provide a practical extension of 3DGS-based stylization to flexible text/image inputs, which is relevant for VR/AR applications. The real-time aspect enabled by Gaussian Splatting is a constructive engineering choice. At present, however, the significance cannot be assessed because the core mechanisms and experimental evidence remain insufficiently specified.

major comments (3)

[§3.1] §3.1 (Subdivisive Flow): the description asserts that the flow produces precise, artifact-free projection of the CLIP-mapped text-visual feature onto the VGG style feature, yet supplies neither the subdivision criterion, the explicit mapping function, nor any invertibility or mode-collapse analysis; without these the claimed alignment cannot be verified or reproduced.
[§4] §4 (Experiments): the headline result of a 32.92% consistency improvement is stated without defining the consistency metric, listing the baselines, specifying the test scenes or views, or reporting error bars or statistical tests; the quantitative claim is therefore unevaluable from the given information.
[§3.2] §3.2 (Losses): the observation loss and suppression loss are said to jointly improve style matching while preserving content, but no ablation table isolates their individual effects on the consistency metric or on visual artifacts, leaving the contribution of each loss unquantified.

minor comments (2)

[§3] Notation for the CLIP-VGG feature spaces is introduced without a clear diagram or table relating the intermediate tensors, which would aid readability.
[Figures] Figure captions do not indicate whether the displayed views are novel or training views, complicating direct comparison with the consistency claim.

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The central claim rests on the unproven effectiveness of subdivisive flow for CLIP-to-VGG alignment and on the two new losses guiding optimization correctly; these are treated as domain assumptions rather than derived results.

axioms (2)

domain assumption CLIP text-visual features can be reliably projected onto VGG style features via subdivisive flow without residual mismatch
Invoked to resolve the abnormal transformation issue described in the abstract
domain assumption Observation loss and suppression loss improve style fidelity while preserving original scene content
Introduced as the mechanisms that make the stylized output match the reference

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M2StyleGS: Multi-Modality 3D Style Transfer with Gaussian Splatting

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