Joint Geometry-Appearance Human Reconstruction in a Unified Latent Space via Bridge Diffusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00328v1
• Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:48:56 GMT
• Title: Joint Geometry-Appearance Human Reconstruction in a Unified Latent Space via Bridge Diffusion
• Authors: Yingzhi Tang, Qijian Zhang, Junhui Hou,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces textbfJGA-LBD, a novel framework that unifies the modeling of geometry and appearance into a joint latent representation.<n> Experiments demonstrate that JGA-LBD outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both geometry fidelity and appearance quality.
• Score: 57.09673862519791
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Achieving consistent and high-fidelity geometry and appearance reconstruction of 3D digital humans from a single RGB image is inherently a challenging task. Existing studies typically resort to decoupled pipelines for geometry estimation and appearance synthesis, often hindering unified reconstruction and causing inconsistencies. This paper introduces \textbf{JGA-LBD}, a novel framework that unifies the modeling of geometry and appearance into a joint latent representation and formulates the generation process as bridge diffusion. Observing that directly integrating heterogeneous input conditions (e.g., depth maps, SMPL models) leads to substantial training difficulties, we unify all conditions into the 3D Gaussian representations, which can be further compressed into a unified latent space through a shared sparse variational autoencoder (VAE). Subsequently, the specialized form of bridge diffusion enables to start with a partial observation of the target latent code and solely focuses on inferring the missing components. Finally, a dedicated decoding module extracts the complete 3D human geometric structure and renders novel views from the inferred latent representation. Experiments demonstrate that JGA-LBD outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both geometry fidelity and appearance quality, including challenging in-the-wild scenarios. Our code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/haiantyz/JGA-LBD.

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