CVAIJun 21

DreamUV: Unwrap Artist-like UV by End-to-End Flow Matching

arXiv:2606.224455.6
Predicted impact top 77% in CV · last 90 daysOriginality Incremental advance
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For 3D artists and content creators, DreamUV automates the production of UV layouts that align with professional stylistic preferences, reducing manual effort in 3D content creation pipelines.

DreamUV introduces an end-to-end flow matching framework for UV unwrapping that generates artist-like UV layouts with straighter seams and tighter axis-aligned islands, outperforming classical and learning-based baselines in boundary quality while maintaining competitive distortion metrics.

UV parameterization is a fundamental step in 3D content creation, yet producing production-ready UV layouts remains challenging due to the gap between geometric distortion objectives and the stylistic preferences of professional artists. While classical methods optimize handcrafted energy functions, artist-authored UVs exhibit structural patterns such as straightened seams, axis-aligned islands, and flexible interior deformation, properties that are difficult to explicitly formulate. In this work, we present DreamUV, an end-to-end learning framework that formulates UV unwrapping as a generative Flow Matching problem. Rather than predicting a single optimal parameterization, DreamUV learns a mesh-conditioned transport process that maps noise samples to a distribution of artist-like UV layouts. To reflect real-world authoring practices, we introduce a boundary-aware training strategy that prioritizes seam geometry, and a Model-in-the-Loop Finetuning(MITL) scheme that explicitly accounts for discretization errors during sampling and stabilizes transport dynamics under heterogeneous supervision. We evaluate DreamUV on a large-scale dataset of professionally authored UV layouts. Experiments demonstrate that our method produces significantly straighter boundaries and tighter axis-aligned islands than both classical and learning-based baselines, while maintaining competitive distortion metrics. Qualitative results and a user study with professional artists further confirm that DreamUV generates UV layouts that are not only valid, but aligned with practical production requirements.

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