SIGMAN:Scaling 3D Human Gaussian Generation with Millions of Assets
This work addresses the problem of 3D human digitization for applications in computer graphics and virtual reality, offering a novel approach to overcome limitations in speed, quality, and data scarcity, though it builds on existing paradigms.
The paper tackles the challenge of generating high-quality 3D digital humans by proposing a latent space generation paradigm that transforms low-to-high-dimensional mapping into a learnable distribution shift, resulting in the creation of the HGS-1M dataset with 1 million 3D Gaussian assets and producing detailed 3D human Gaussians with intricate textures and clothing deformation.
3D human digitization has long been a highly pursued yet challenging task. Existing methods aim to generate high-quality 3D digital humans from single or multiple views, but remain primarily constrained by current paradigms and the scarcity of 3D human assets. Specifically, recent approaches fall into several paradigms: optimization-based and feed-forward (both single-view regression and multi-view generation with reconstruction). However, they are limited by slow speed, low quality, cascade reasoning, and ambiguity in mapping low-dimensional planes to high-dimensional space due to occlusion and invisibility, respectively. Furthermore, existing 3D human assets remain small-scale, insufficient for large-scale training. To address these challenges, we propose a latent space generation paradigm for 3D human digitization, which involves compressing multi-view images into Gaussians via a UV-structured VAE, along with DiT-based conditional generation, we transform the ill-posed low-to-high-dimensional mapping problem into a learnable distribution shift, which also supports end-to-end inference. In addition, we employ the multi-view optimization approach combined with synthetic data to construct the HGS-1M dataset, which contains $1$ million 3D Gaussian assets to support the large-scale training. Experimental results demonstrate that our paradigm, powered by large-scale training, produces high-quality 3D human Gaussians with intricate textures, facial details, and loose clothing deformation.