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DRiVE: Diffusion-based Rigging Empowers Generation of Versatile and Expressive Characters

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Pith's one-line read Diffusion-based rigging predicts joint positions as spatial distributions, letting a single image or text prompt become an animated 3D character with independently moving hair and clothing.

desk verdict A promising rigging dataset and diffusion-based method for animatable 3D Gaussians, but the headline numbers depend on an unreported LGM fine-tuning split and need verification. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.17423 v1 pith:GF3DDXNO submitted 2024-11-26 cs.CV

Mingze Sun , Junhao Chen , Junting Dong , Yurun Chen , Xinyu Jiang , Shiwei Mao , Puhua Jiang , Jingbo Wang
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Bo Dai Ruqi Huang
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keywords 3DGaussiansplattingcharacterriggingskeletonpredictionskinningweightsconditionaldiffusionanimecharacterssingle-imagegenerationanimation
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The reading

DRiVE claims to close the gap between generating 3D characters and animating them. The paper introduces AnimeRig, a large dataset of humanoid characters with skeletons that include hair and clothing, and a pipeline that produces a rigged 3D Gaussian character from one image or a text prompt. The central technical move is GSDiff, a diffusion module that treats joint positions as probability distributions rather than regressing them, which the paper argues is what makes heterogeneous skeletons learnable. On the AnimeRig test set, DRiVE reports a joint-estimation IoU of 70.48 percent against 28.69 percent for RigNet and 27.74 percent for AnimSkelVolNet, and a skinning average L1 of 0.48 versus 0.88 for GeoVoxel. A reader should care because if the claims hold, automatic rigging can handle skirts, hair, and other loose structures that standard body skeletons animate unrealistically.

What carries the argument

GSDiff is a conditional diffusion model for joint positions. At each denoising step, the current joint estimate gathers local geometry by k-nearest-neighbor interpolation from DGCNN features over the 3D Gaussian means, and appearance by CLIP features from four rendered views; cross-attention layers fuse the conditions. The reverse process therefore treats a skeleton as a sample from a learned distribution p(J | Gaussian, views), which the paper argues avoids the error accumulation and poor generalization of regression-based joint estimators. BoneFlow and the skinning network are secondary machinery built on top of the predicted joints.

What would settle it

Run DRiVE's joint and skinning evaluation on a held-out set of characters whose meshes were never used to fine-tune the generator, and compare the transferred AnimeRig labels against manually re-rigged ground truth on hair strands and skirt panels; if the joint IoU falls toward the 28 percent baseline or the skinning L1 on thin structures rises well above the 0.48 average, the label-transfer step, not the diffusion module, is carrying the reported improvement.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that 3D Gaussian characters can be rigged accurately by predicting joint positions with a diffusion process instead of a regression network. GSDiff denoises a set of joints conditioned on both the 3D Gaussian point means and four canonical-view renderings, combining geometric and appearance features at each denoising step. After joints are denoised, bone connectivity is obtained through a learned BoneFlow field followed by a minimum spanning tree, and skinning is estimated by a network that starts from a distance-based initialization and is regularized with a smoothness loss. The authors report that this pipeline outperforms prior mesh-based rigging methods on their AnimeRig test set, with joint IoU improving from around 28 percent to 70.48 percent and average skinning L1 falling from about 0.88–1.00 to 0.48. They also report that the same framework trained on plain meshes reaches similar joint accuracy (67.90 percent IoU for plain mesh versus 70.48 percent for 3D Gaussian), which they take as evidence of flexibility.

Load-bearing premise

The AnimeRig ground truth is created by converting rigged meshes to 3D Gaussians and then registering the meshes back to the Gaussians with scaled ICP to transfer skeleton and skinning labels; if that registration is inaccurate for fine structures or if the meshes used to fine-tune the generator appear again in the rigging test set, the reported joint and skinning numbers would overstate what the method can do.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A single image or text prompt can produce an immediately animatable character, cutting manual rigging out of the pipeline.
  • Skirts, hair, and other loose parts receive their own joints and skinning, so they move naturally instead of being rigidly attached to the body.
  • Because the rigging network consumes unordered point sets plus renderings, it can be retargeted from 3D Gaussians to plain meshes without architectural changes.
  • Replacing regression with generation for joint prediction yields a large jump in joint IoU on the same dataset, suggesting the diffusion formulation, not just more training data, is driving the gain.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The reported quality depends on the accuracy of the ICP label transfer from meshes to Gaussians; thin strands of hair or loose fabric are exactly where ICP registrations typically falter, so the true gain on such structures may be smaller than the aggregate IoU suggests (this is my reading, the paper does not analyze transfer error).
  • The method is trained on a single visual style of humanoid characters, and the authors' any-pose results come from a small domain-gap test; a natural next check is whether it rigs realistic humans, creatures, or stylized non-human characters without retraining.
  • The paper notes 3D Gaussian collision detection is unsolved, so its animated characters can self-intersect; adding a collision-aware deformation step would be a direct follow-up that the current pipeline does not address.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents DRiVE, a framework that generates and rigs 3D characters with heterogeneous skeletons (including hair and clothing) from a single image or text prompt. The authors curate AnimeRig, a dataset of 9,420 anime-style meshes with skeleton and skinning annotations, convert these to 3D Gaussians via a fine-tuned LGM model, and transfer annotations through scaled ICP. The core technical contribution is GSDiff, a diffusion module that predicts joint positions conditioned on Gaussian means and multi-view renderings, and a skinning network with an initial k-NN estimate. Experiments on AnimeRig report large improvements over RigNet, AnimSkelVolNet, and GeoVoxel, alongside ablations studying the diffusion formulation and conditioning choices.

Significance. The problem is timely and the proposed pipeline is ambitious: if the results are reliable, DRiVE would be a valuable step toward animatable 3D characters with detailed clothing and hair, and AnimeRig could serve as a useful benchmark. The diffusion-based joint prediction is a reasonable and interesting alternative to regression, and the paper includes a thorough ablation study, including a regression baseline, that supports the diffusion design. However, the headline quantitative claims rest on evaluation-protocol details that are not fully disclosed, so the significance is conditional on those details being resolved.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3 and Sec. 5.2] The train/test split for the LGM fine-tuning is not reported. The fine-tuned LGM is used both to produce the 3D Gaussians for the rigging test set and as the final generation model. If any test character's meshes were included in the LGM fine-tuning set, the test 3D Gaussians are reconstructions of memorized training geometry, which would give GSDiff an advantage over the mesh-based baselines (which consume ground-truth meshes) and inflate the reported IoU and skinning L1 differences in Tables 1 and 2. Please state explicitly whether the test characters were excluded from LGM fine-tuning, and if not, re-evaluate on a held-out set of characters whose meshes were never seen by LGM.
  2. [Sec. 3, stage 3] The accuracy of the scaled ICP label transfer is not analyzed. The ground-truth skeleton and skinning for both training and testing are transferred from meshes to 3D Gaussians via ICP. Thin structures such as hair strands or loose skirts are exactly the regions where the paper claims improvement, and these are also the most likely to be misregistered. Please report quantitative ICP error (e.g., distance between registered mesh and Gaussian means) stratified by region, and/or a manual inspection protocol. Without this, high agreement with the transferred labels does not necessarily imply correct rigging.
  3. [Sec. 5.2] The evaluation protocol for baselines is incompletely specified. It is unclear how RigNet and AnimSkelVolNet predictions on ground-truth meshes are compared to ground-truth labels defined on 3D Gaussians, and how the IoU and Chamfer metrics are computed across the two representations. Please clarify whether all methods are evaluated on the same 3D Gaussian test set, and if so, how mesh-based predictions are transferred to the Gaussian representation. This is necessary to interpret the large IoU gap in Table 1.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Sec. 5.1] The heading 'Metircs' should be 'Metrics'.
  2. [Sec. 4.2.1] The phrase 'Minimum Spanning Tre' should be 'Minimum Spanning Tree'.
  3. [Sec. 5.3, Table 3] The row 'Ours w/o C3dl' reports a CD-J2J of 4.14, which is worse than the regression baseline's 4.02; this is not discussed in the text and deserves a brief comment.
  4. [Sec. 5.2] No error bars or multiple-seed results are reported for any of the quantitative tables; given the large margins in Tables 1 and 2, the conclusions are likely robust, but the absence of variance information makes it difficult to assess statistical significance.
  5. [Sec. 5.3, Table 3] The regression baseline is described only as replacing RigNet's mesh encoder with a point cloud encoder; details of the training procedure (loss, schedule, hyperparameters) are omitted, which limits the strength of the diffusion-vs-regression conclusion.
  6. [Sec. 5.3, Table 4] The comparison between '3D Gaussian' and 'Mesh' inputs is not apples-to-apples because the Gaussian and mesh representations have different geometric structure; the text should note the representational differences more explicitly.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation found; the rigging pipeline is a supervised learning system with independent training and test phases, and the reported predictions are not constructed from the test labels.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation chain is a supervised rigging pipeline: AnimeRig provides meshes with artist-repaired skeletons and skinning; these are converted to 3D Gaussians by fine-tuning LGM, labels are transferred via scaled ICP; GSDiff is trained to denoise joint positions conditioned on Gaussian means and multi-view renderings; BoneFlow and MST produce bone connections; and a skinning network predicts per-point weights from geometry, appearance, and a distance-based initial estimate Sinit. No equation in the paper defines a predicted quantity in terms of the ground-truth target, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The skinning initialization Sinit is derived from predicted joints, not from ground-truth skinning, and the losses compare predictions against independently transferred labels. The use of fine-tuned LGM to generate test 3D Gaussians and the unspecified split between LGM fine-tuning and evaluation is a legitimate evaluation-fairness concern, but it does not make the rigging output equivalent to the input by construction, and the paper does not claim the test labels are derived from the model's own outputs. Self-citations appear only as related work and are not load-bearing to the technical claims. Therefore, under the defined circularity criteria, the derivation is self-contained.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the quality of the self-built AnimeRig dataset and the transfer of its labels to 3D Gaussians. The method itself adds no physical axioms. Main hand-chosen items are the fixed 25-joint body topology and several hyperparameters left to the supplementary material.

free parameters (4)
  • Body joint count (25) = 25
    Chosen to standardize the body skeleton across all characters; arbitrary and affects the skeleton topology that GSDiff must predict.
  • k-NN neighborhood size k for GSDiff local feature aggregation
    Hyperparameter for Eq. (2); value deferred to supplementary material.
  • Smooth-skinning loss weight lambda_2
    Hyperparameter balancing L_ce, L_kl and L_smooth in Eq. (5); value not given in main text.
  • Diffusion denoising steps
    Number of reverse steps used to sample joints; standard DDPM hyperparameter, not reported in main text.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The AnimeRig ground-truth skeleton and skinning annotations are accurate after artist repair and survive scaled-ICP transfer from mesh to 3D Gaussian.
    The entire training and evaluation rely on these labels; error analysis is not provided in Sec. 3.
  • ad hoc to paper A fixed set of 25 body joints plus a variable set of external joints can represent the range of anime characters with hair and clothing.
    This skeleton taxonomy is imposed for learning convenience; characters with different topologies may not fit (partially acknowledged in Sec. 6, limitation 1).
  • ad hoc to paper The k-NN distance-based initial skinning S_init is a sufficient initialization for the skinning network.
    Claimed from empirical observation in Sec. 4.2.2, not derived or compared against a random baseline.
  • domain assumption CLIP embeddings of four canonical-view renderings capture the appearance information needed for joint and skinning prediction.
    No analysis of which visual cues are used; ablation only removes the image input entirely (Tab. 5).
  • standard math Diffusion training and backbone follow standard DDPM and set transformer formulations, including cross-attention conditioning.
    Relies on established denoising diffusion probabilistic models and attention architectures.

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Recent advances in generative models have enabled high-quality 3D character reconstruction from multi-modal. However, animating these generated characters remains a challenging task, especially for complex elements like garments and hair, due to the lack of large-scale datasets and effective rigging methods. To address this gap, we curate AnimeRig, a large-scale dataset with detailed skeleton and skinning annotations. Building upon this, we propose DRiVE, a novel framework for generating and rigging 3D human characters with intricate structures. Unlike existing methods, DRiVE utilizes a 3D Gaussian representation, facilitating efficient animation and high-quality rendering. We further introduce GSDiff, a 3D Gaussian-based diffusion module that predicts joint positions as spatial distributions, overcoming the limitations of regression-based approaches. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DRiVE achieves precise rigging results, enabling realistic dynamics for clothing and hair, and surpassing previous methods in both quality and versatility. The code and dataset will be made public for academic use upon acceptance.

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Figure 1. We propose DRiVE, a pipeline that generates 3D Gaussian from a single image along with the corresponding skeleton (including hair and clothing) and skinning, enabling precise control over 3D Gaussian to render high-quality, controllable, and 3D consistent videos. Abstract Recent advances in generative models have enabled high￾quality 3D character reconstruction from multi-modal. However, animating these generated ch… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. We compare our method with CharacterGen [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. We show the comparison results of LGM before and af [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The overall pipeline of our framework. See the main text for more details. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Pipeline for 3D Gaussian refinement and results using a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Our skinning predictions closely match the ground truth, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Our method accurately predicts skeletal structures, out [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Our pipeline can consistently convert anime characters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png]

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