MSCA Fellowship

SYN3D: Synthesizing Photorealistic 3D Scene from Zero to One or Limited Views

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (UKRI Horizon Europe)

The grant was awarded on 13/02/2024 (£ 206,085.62), and started on 01/06/2024 and will end on 01/06/2026.

Objectives

The aim of SYN3D is to enable the effortless creation of novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction from limited views (from 0 to 5) in a feed-forward manner. In general, such a few input views do not contain sufficient information for compressive 3D synthesis. However, our scientific hypothesis is that 3D synthesis from limited views is still possible by learning, from billion images, the capability of hallucinating unobserved parts of 3D objects/scenes, thus obtaining plausible if not faithful reconstructions.

To achieve the objectives of SYN3D, the project focuses on the following key objectives:

  • To develop a feed-forward 3D scene synthesis model that reconstructs photorealistic 3D scenes from zero to one or limited views.
  • To develop a strategy for training the model on large-scale image datasets for generalizable 3D reconstruction across different scenes.
  • To decompose the 3D scene into semantically meaningful components, enabling better manipulation of the synthesized scenes.
  • Selected Results

    MVSplat, MVSplat-360Feed-forward 3D scene synthesis from limited views (even for 360 degree)

    Free3DFeed-forward 3D object synthesis from a single image for open-set categories

    Publications

    2025

    2024