Diffusion in texture space generates high-quality 3D materials from text or photos

The authors finetune a video diffusion transformer to produce physically-based rendering materials directly on 2D UV maps, enabling robust multi-view reconstruction and scaling to 8K resolution.

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Jacob Munkberg · Peter Kocsis · Jon Hasselgren

NVIDIA

Research Digest·4 October 2026·2 min read

The authors present a method for generating PBR materials for 3D objects by operating entirely in texture space, bypassing view consistency issues.

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Generating high quality 3D object materials entirely in texture space avoids view consistency problems.

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texture space diffusion diffusion transformer physically-based rendering material generation view-consistent reconstruction noise rolling coverage-aware expert aggregation