Synthesizing 3D Abstractions by Inverting Procedural Buildings with Transformers

Maximilian Dax, Jordi Serrano Berbel, Jan Stria, Leonidas Guibas, Urs M Bergmann

Keywords: Abstraction, buildings, transformers, inverse modelling, point clouds, procedural models

TL;DR: We synthesize 3D abstractions for buildings by inverting a procedural model

Abstract: We generate abstractions of buildings, reflecting the essential aspects of their geometry and structure, by learning to invert procedural models. We first build a dataset of abstract procedural building models paired with simulated point clouds and then learn the inverse mapping through a transformer. Given a point cloud, the trained transformer then infers the corresponding abstracted building in terms of a programmatic language description. This approach leverages expressive procedural models developed for gaming and animation, and thereby retains desirable properties such as efficient rendering of the inferred abstractions and strong priors for regularity and symmetry. Our approach achieves good reconstruction accuracy in terms of geometry and structure, as well as structurally consistent inpainting.

Submission Number: 8