From Rays to Projections: Better Inputs for Feed-Forward View Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05116v1
• Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:03:44 GMT
• Title: From Rays to Projections: Better Inputs for Feed-Forward View Synthesis
• Authors: Zirui Wu, Zeren Jiang, Martin R. Oswald, Jie Song,
• Abstract summary: Feed-forward view synthesis models predict a novel view in a single pass with minimal 3D inductive bias.<n>Existing works encode cameras as Plcker ray maps, which tie predictions to the arbitrary world coordinate gauge and make them sensitive to small camera transformations.<n>We propose projective conditioning, which replaces raw camera parameters with a target-view projective cue that provides a stable 2D input.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Feed-forward view synthesis models predict a novel view in a single pass with minimal 3D inductive bias. Existing works encode cameras as Plücker ray maps, which tie predictions to the arbitrary world coordinate gauge and make them sensitive to small camera transformations, thereby undermining geometric consistency. In this paper, we ask what inputs best condition a model for robust and consistent view synthesis. We propose projective conditioning, which replaces raw camera parameters with a target-view projective cue that provides a stable 2D input. This reframes the task from a brittle geometric regression problem in ray space to a well-conditioned target-view image-to-image translation problem. Additionally, we introduce a masked autoencoding pretraining strategy tailored to this cue, enabling the use of large-scale uncalibrated data for pretraining. Our method shows improved fidelity and stronger cross-view consistency compared to ray-conditioned baselines on our view-consistency benchmark. It also achieves state-of-the-art quality on standard novel view synthesis benchmarks.

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