SAR3D: Autoregressive 3D Object Generation and Understanding via Multi-scale 3D VQVAE
This addresses the challenge of efficient and high-quality 3D content creation for applications like gaming, VR, and design, representing a novel approach rather than an incremental improvement.
The paper tackles the problem of applying autoregressive models to 3D object generation and understanding, introducing SAR3D, which achieves fast generation in 0.82 seconds and surpasses current methods in speed and quality.
Autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable success across various fields, from large language models (LLMs) to large multimodal models (LMMs) and 2D content generation, moving closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI). Despite these advances, applying autoregressive approaches to 3D object generation and understanding remains largely unexplored. This paper introduces Scale AutoRegressive 3D (SAR3D), a novel framework that leverages a multi-scale 3D vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQVAE) to tokenize 3D objects for efficient autoregressive generation and detailed understanding. By predicting the next scale in a multi-scale latent representation instead of the next single token, SAR3D reduces generation time significantly, achieving fast 3D object generation in just 0.82 seconds on an A6000 GPU. Additionally, given the tokens enriched with hierarchical 3D-aware information, we finetune a pretrained LLM on them, enabling multimodal comprehension of 3D content. Our experiments show that SAR3D surpasses current 3D generation methods in both speed and quality and allows LLMs to interpret and caption 3D models comprehensively.