MAGE : Single Image to Material-Aware 3D via the Multi-View G-Buffer Estimation Model

Haoyuan Wang, Zhenwei Wang, Xiaoxiao Long, Cheng Lin, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W.H. Lau; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, pp. 10985-10995

With advances in deep learning models and the availability of large-scale 3D datasets, we have recently witnessed significant progress in single-view 3D reconstruction. However, existing methods often fail to reconstruct physically based material properties given a single image, limiting their applicability in complicated scenarios. This paper presents a novel approach (named MAGE) for generating 3D geometry with realistic decomposed material properties given a single image as input. Our method leverages inspiration from traditional computer graphics deferred rendering pipelines to introduce a multi-view G-buffer estimation model. The proposed model estimates G-buffers for various views as multi-domain images, including XYZ coordinates, normals, albedo, roughness, and metallic properties from a single-view RGB image. To address the inherent ambiguity and inconsistency in generating G-buffers simultaneously, we also formulate a deterministic network from the pretrained diffusion models and propose a lighting response loss that enforces consistency across these domains using PBR principles. Finally, we propose a large-scale synthetic dataset rich in material diversity for our model training. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in producing high-quality 3D meshes with rich material properties. Our code and dataset can be found at https://www.whyy.site/paper/mage.