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arxiv: 2605.30065 · v1 · pith:EGH6BYZ7new · submitted 2026-05-28 · 💻 cs.CV

Boosting Zero-Shot 3D Style Transfer with 2D Pre-trained Priors

Xin Dong , Yunzhi Teng , Wenfeng Deng , Yansong Tang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords zero-shot 3D style transferGaussian splatting2D pre-trained decoderdeferred stylizationview consistencydata scarcitystyle transfer
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Integrating a decoder pre-trained on 2D content-style pairs into 3D Gaussian splatting produces high-quality zero-shot 3D style transfer with view consistency.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to overcome data scarcity in 3D style transfer, where each model sees only one scene and thus few content-style pairs for training. It does so by plugging a decoder trained on large-scale 2D image pairs directly into a 3D pipeline. The method uses feature Gaussian splatting to represent the scene and defers stylization to a step that turns view-dependent operations into a single view-invariant process. This produces stylized multi-view outputs from an arbitrary style image. The work shows that 2D pre-training can supply the missing supervisory signal for 3D tasks.

Core claim

By combining feature Gaussian splatting and deferred stylization, the Data-Sufficient StyleGaussian model leverages a decoder pre-trained on numerous 2D content-style pairs to perform high-quality stylization while unifying view-dependent operations into a view-invariant process, thereby achieving multi-view consistency and outperforming prior zero-shot 3D style transfer methods across datasets.

What carries the argument

Feature Gaussian splatting paired with deferred stylization that routes stylization through a 2D-pretrained decoder

If this is right

  • The DS-StyleGaussian model achieves higher visual quality than existing zero-shot 3D style transfer methods on multiple datasets.
  • View consistency is maintained by converting view-dependent operations into a view-invariant process.
  • 2D pre-training supplies the supervisory signal that single-scene 3D data cannot provide.
  • The approach demonstrates that 2D pre-training can enhance 3D tasks limited by data scarcity.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same 2D-to-3D decoder transfer might improve other sparse-data 3D tasks such as novel-view synthesis or object editing.
  • Testing the method on dynamic scenes or non-Gaussian 3D representations would reveal how far the view-invariance step generalizes.
  • If the 2D decoder already encodes strong style priors, further fine-tuning on 3D data may not be necessary for many applications.

Load-bearing premise

A decoder trained only on 2D image pairs can be inserted into a 3D Gaussian splatting pipeline without creating view-inconsistent artifacts.

What would settle it

Rendering the same stylized 3D scene from multiple viewpoints and observing visible inconsistencies or quality drops when the 2D decoder is used would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.30065 by Wenfeng Deng, Xin Dong, Yansong Tang, Yunzhi Teng.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: In the left sub-figure, the first two rows show style and content [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our DS-StyleGaussian. The 3D style transfer method consists of three parts: feature Gaussian rasterization, stylization in feature space, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: 3D style transfer results of StyleRF [2], StyleGaussian [25], and our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: 3D style transfer results of our model with and without consistent [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: 3D style transfer results of our model with MLP decoder, with not [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

In this work, we focus on zero-shot 3D style transfer that can generate multi-view consistent stylized views of the 3D scene given an arbitrary style image. We primarily tackle the issue of data scarcity in 3D style transfer, which arises when each model is trained on only a single scene, thereby limiting the number of available content images. This scarcity significantly hampers stylization performance, as model optimization relies on a sufficient number of content-style image pairs to provide supervisory signals. Our core idea is to integrate a decoder pre-trained on large-scale 2D image datasets into the 3D style transfer pipeline, thereby leveraging the prior knowledge encoded in the decoder from learning over numerous content-style image pairs. Our method combines feature Gaussian splatting and deferred stylization, enabling high-quality stylization with the data-sufficient decoder network while ensuring view consistency by unifying view-dependent operations into a view-invariant process. Experiments demonstrate that our Data-Sufficient StyleGaussian (DS-StyleGaussian) model outperforms existing zero-shot 3D style transfer methods in terms of visual quality across various datasets. This work also suggests that 2D pre-training can serve as a strong enhancement for 3D tasks, bridging the data gap between 2D and 3D.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes DS-StyleGaussian for zero-shot 3D style transfer. It tackles data scarcity in 3D by integrating a decoder pre-trained on large-scale 2D content-style pairs into a 3D pipeline via feature Gaussian splatting and deferred stylization. The approach unifies view-dependent operations into a view-invariant process to maintain multi-view consistency while leveraging the data-sufficient 2D decoder for higher-quality stylization. Experiments are claimed to show outperformance over prior zero-shot 3D style transfer methods across datasets, suggesting 2D pre-training as a general enhancer for 3D tasks.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work provides a practical way to bridge the data gap between 2D and 3D by reusing pre-trained 2D priors, which could generalize to other 3D tasks limited by scene-specific training. The specific integration of feature Gaussian splatting with deferred stylization offers a concrete mechanism for consistency that merits attention if supported by evidence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method] Method section (feature Gaussian splatting and deferred stylization description): The claim that unifying view-dependent operations ensures view consistency rests on the untested assumption that the 2D pre-trained decoder maps nearby viewpoint-induced variations in splatted feature maps to stylizations whose differences are no larger than those from camera motion alone. No domain-adaptation step, feature-alignment module, or analysis of distribution shift between 2D training pairs and 3D splatted features is described, which directly bears on whether the deferred step preserves consistency.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: The assertion that DS-StyleGaussian outperforms existing methods lacks any cited quantitative tables, ablation results, or metrics (e.g., LPIPS, user studies) in the manuscript text; without these, the magnitude of improvement and the contribution of the 2D decoder versus the splatting components cannot be assessed.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The acronym DS-StyleGaussian is introduced without spelling out 'Data-Sufficient StyleGaussian' on first use, which could be clarified for readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to improve clarity on the method assumptions and to include quantitative results in the main text.

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  1. Referee: [Method] Method section (feature Gaussian splatting and deferred stylization description): The claim that unifying view-dependent operations ensures view consistency rests on the untested assumption that the 2D pre-trained decoder maps nearby viewpoint-induced variations in splatted feature maps to stylizations whose differences are no larger than those from camera motion alone. No domain-adaptation step, feature-alignment module, or analysis of distribution shift between 2D training pairs and 3D splatted features is described, which directly bears on whether the deferred step preserves consistency.

    Authors: The core mechanism is that feature Gaussian splatting produces a view-invariant feature representation in 3D space before the decoder is applied in the deferred stylization step; this unifies any view-dependent effects into a single consistent process. While the manuscript does not contain an explicit domain-shift analysis or adaptation module, the 2D decoder was trained on diverse content-style pairs and the splatted features are constructed to lie in a compatible space. We will add a dedicated paragraph discussing this assumption and its implications for consistency in the revised Method section. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: The assertion that DS-StyleGaussian outperforms existing methods lacks any cited quantitative tables, ablation results, or metrics (e.g., LPIPS, user studies) in the manuscript text; without these, the magnitude of improvement and the contribution of the 2D decoder versus the splatting components cannot be assessed.

    Authors: The current manuscript emphasizes qualitative comparisons, with supporting quantitative metrics and ablations provided in the supplementary material. To directly address the concern, we will move the key quantitative tables (including LPIPS, user-study scores, and component ablations) into the main Experiments section and cite them explicitly in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: method relies on external 2D pre-trained decoder without self-referential reduction

full rationale

The paper's core claim integrates a pre-trained 2D decoder into a 3D Gaussian splatting pipeline via feature splatting and deferred stylization. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are presented that reduce the view-consistency or stylization quality result to a definition or input by construction. The derivation chain treats the 2D decoder as an independent external prior, and the unification of view-dependent operations is described as an architectural choice rather than a tautological mapping. This is the standard non-circular case for a method paper that imports a pre-trained component.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the transferability of 2D style-transfer priors to 3D without additional 3D-specific training data; no free parameters, new entities, or explicit axioms are stated in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption A decoder trained on large-scale 2D content-style pairs encodes priors that remain useful when inserted into a 3D style-transfer pipeline.
    This is the explicit core idea stated in the abstract.

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