Prometheus: 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models for Feed-Forward Text-to-3D Scene Generation

Yuanbo Yang, Jiahao Shao, Xinyang Li, Yujun Shen, Andreas Geiger, Yiyi Liao; Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025, pp. 2857-2869

In this work, we introduce Prometheus, a 3D-aware latent diffusion model for text-to-3D generation at both object and scene levels in seconds. We formulate 3D scene generation as multi-view, feed-forward, pixel-aligned 3D Gaussian generation within the latent diffusion paradigm. To ensure generalizability, we build our model upon pre-trained text-to-image generation model with only minimal adjustments and further train it using a large number of images from both single-view and multi-view datasets. Furthermore, we introduce an RGB-D latent space into 3D Gaussian generation to disentangle appearance and geometry information, enabling efficient feed-forward generation of 3D Gaussians with better fidelity and geometry. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in both feed-forward 3D Gaussian reconstruction and text-to-3D generation.