MagicGarment: Benchmarking Single-Image Standalone 3D Garment Reconstruction

Reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single image remains particularly challenging for loose garments, whose geometry and motion cannot be adequately represented by body-aligned topology and skinning. We present Forwardrobe, a feed-forward framework for reconstructing garment-aware Gaussian avatars from a single image. Forwardrobe explicitly separates clothing from the body in canonical Gaussian space and equips the garment layer with continuity-aware geometry and skinning initialization, pose-conditioned non-rigid deformation, and appearance adaptation. These designs improve garment reconstruction and visual quality during animation, particularly for skirts and dresses. The separated garment layer additionally forms an independently controllable 3D asset, enabling garment editing, transfer, and 3D virtual try-on. Experiments demonstrate improved garment reconstruction quality and greater flexibility in garment manipulation compared with existing single-image avatar reconstruction methods.

While garments are essential for realistic digital humans, their topological variety makes them much harder to model than parametric bodies. Traditional tailoring relies on 2D sewing patterns, yet bridging these patterns to 3D geometry currently requires physical simulations. We present Stitched Embeddings, the first simulation-free framework to unify 3D garment reconstruction and sewing pattern inference within a single bidirectional latent space. By leveraging the geometric priors of a pretrained 3D foundation model, our approach overcomes the data scarcity typically associated with high-quality garment modeling. We propose to use the BoxMesh as a critical intermediate representation to align 2D panels into 3D configurations without the computational overhead of a simulator. This architecture achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in pattern reconstruction while significantly improving efficiency. Furthermore, our differentiable pipeline enables novel applications, including pattern recovery from meshes and 3D editing from 2D patterns. Finally, this work provides a scalable link between neural 3D vision and the physical garment manufacturing pipeline. Project Page: https://andreus00.github.io/stitchedembeddings

Reconstructing 3D clothed humans from monocular images and videos is a fundamental problem with applications in virtual try-on, avatar creation, and mixed reality. Despite significant progress in human body recovery, accurately reconstructing garment geometry, particularly for loose-fitting clothing, remains an open challenge. We propose a unified framework for high-fidelity 3D garment reconstruction from both single images and video sequences. Our approach combines Implicit Sewing Patterns (ISP) with a generative diffusion model to learn expressive garment shape priors in 2D UV space. Leveraging these priors, we introduce a mapping model that establishes correspondences between image pixels, UV pattern coordinates, and 3D geometry, enabling accurate and detailed garment reconstruction from single images. We further extend this formulation to dynamic reconstruction by introducing a spatio-temporal diffusion scheme with test-time guidance to enforce long-range temporal consistency. We also develop analytic projection-based constraints that preserve image-aligned geometry in visible regions while enforcing coherent completion in occluded areas over time. Although trained exclusively on synthetically simulated cloth data, our method generalizes well to real-world imagery and consistently outperforms existing approaches on both tight- and loose-fitting garments. The reconstructed garments preserve fine geometric detail while exhibiting realistic dynamic motion, supporting downstream applications such as texture editing, garment retargeting, and animation.