Texture Synthesis

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Texture synthesis studies how to generate, transfer, complete, or interpolate surface appearance, supporting uses from image editing and restoration to games, garments, and 3D reconstruction. Methods range from statistical and exemplar-based matching to GANs, diffusion models, and neural cellular automata; recent 3D approaches generate in UV or texture space and use geometry, multiview images, or surface-aware attention to align details across views. Evaluation considers visual fidelity and detail alongside distributional quality, seam handling, unseen-region completion, and consistency across viewpoints or time. A central challenge is balancing fine detail and controllability with coherent, physically plausible materials, especially when training data or observations are sparse and generation must remain efficient at high resolution.

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  1. SUPRA-TEX: 3D Generation with Super-Aligned Texture

    Oct 15, 2026Chen Yang, Jiemin Fang, Fanpeng Meng +53D Asset Generation3D Texture Generation

    Huawei Inc. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  2. Texture Interpolation as Texton Matching

    Oct 13, 2026Ido Madar, Gal Oren, Shai AvidanTexture Synthesis

    Tel Aviv University · Stanford University

  3. DynaMesh: Dynamic 3D Texture Generation

    Oct 4, 2026Raj Hansini, Guan Chen, Rana Hanocka +13D Texture GenerationText-to-3D Generation

    University of Chicago

  4. Texture Space Material Diffusion

    Sep 29, 2026Jacob Munkberg, Peter Kocsis, Jon Hasselgren3D Asset GenerationTexture Synthesis

    NVIDIA

  5. TaoTex: Boosting Texture Detail Fidelity for Native 3D Material Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Xiuchao Wu, Shuichang Lai, Jiangjing Lyu +13D Asset GenerationMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Alibaba Group

  6. DirectUV: Image-Conditioned UV Texture Generation with Surface-Aware Positional Encoding

    Sep 28, 2026Jiantao Lin, Yingjie Xu, Mingzhi Sheng +3Latent Diffusion ModelsPositional Encoding

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  7. Does Native 3D Texture Generation Necessarily Require 3D Assets for Training?

    Sep 28, 2026Jiangshan Wang, Zeqiang Lai, Jiayi Guo +63D Asset Generation3D Texture Generation

    MMLab, CUHK · Tencent Hunyuan · Tsinghua University +3

  8. OmniFabric: Coherent UV Space Texture Synthesis for 3D Garment Reconstruction

    Sep 24, 2026Ding-Jiun Huang, Yuanhao Wang, Cheng Zhang +43D Asset Generation3D Reconstruction

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America · University of Washington, United States of America · Texas A&M University, United States of America +2

  9. UltraTex: Unleashing 2K Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Texturing

    Sep 19, 2026Yibo Zhang, Ze Yuan, Nan Cao +4Multi-View Image Synthesis3D Texture Generation

    Jilin University, Changchun, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +3

  10. SceneHI: High-Resolution 3D-Consistent Scene Texturing with Controllable Illumination

    Sep 9, 2026Athanasios Tragakis, Marco Aversa, Daniela Ivanova +4Multi-View Consistency3D Scene Generation

    University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom · Independent Researcher, Switzerland

  11. GLOSS: Geometric Local Self-Similarity Learning for Faithful Reference-Guided Texture Fill

    Aug 26, 2026Chenyue Cai, Anita Hu, James Lucas +23D Texture GenerationTexture Synthesis

    Princeton University, USA · NVIDIA, Canada · NVIDIA, UK +1

  12. AvatarDynamizer: From Static to Dynamic Human Avatars via Generative Dynamic Textures

    Aug 20, 2026Guoxing Sun, Heming Zhu, Linjie Lyu +3Human Avatar Animation3D Avatar Generation

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus · EPFL · VIA Research Center

  13. GeoCache: Training-Free Acceleration of Multi-View Texture Diffusion via Geometric Delta Transport

    Aug 13, 2026Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Shaohan Henry Wang +6Multi-View ConsistencyGenerative Modeling

    Department of Eletrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ · Department of Computer Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC · Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science,California State University, Long Beach, CA +1

  14. MicroZoom: Structure-Preserving Detail Synthesis at Extreme Scale

    Jul 27, 2026Huy Huynh, Jingwei Ma, Brian Curless +2Image GenerationReference-Based Image Super-Resolution

    University of Washington, USA

  15. DreamCharacter-1: From 3D Generative Foundation Models to Product-Ready Character Generation

    Jul 8, 2026Weizhe Liu, Yunjie Wu, Xiangqian Shu +53D Foundation Models3D Asset Generation

    Intelligent Creation Team, ByteDance

  16. Ink3D: Sculpting 3D Assets with Extremely Complex Textures via Video Generative Models

    Jul 1, 2026Yue Han, Chong Li, Zhening Liu +53D Asset Generation3D Texture Generation

    ZGCA & ZGCI · Zhejiang University · Microsoft Research +1

  17. Monocular Avatar Reconstruction via Cascaded Diffusion Priors and UV-Space Differentiable Shading

    Jun 26, 2026Hong Li, Minqi Meng, Yanjun Liang +10Inverse RenderingIntrinsic Image Decomposition

    Beihang University, China · Great Wall Motors, China · CUHK-Shenzhen, China +6

  18. HiFiVe: High-Fidelity Vehicle Generation Leveraging Auto-Regressive 2D Generative Priors

    Jun 24, 2026Hongli Xiao, Youjian Zhang, Qi Zheng +53D Mesh Generation3D Asset Generation

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Academy of Military Science, Beijing, 100071, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China +2

  19. Learning a Maximum Entropy Model for Visual Textures using Diffusion

    Jun 15, 2026Xinyuan Zhao, Eero P. SimoncelliConstrained Generative ModelingImage Generation

    New York University · Flatiron Institute

  20. Seeing What Matters: Perceptual Wrapper with Common Randomness for 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Jun 10, 2026He-Bi Yang, Jing-Zhong Chen, Yen-Kuan Ho +53DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan · National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

  21. Advances in Neural 3D Mesh Texturing: A Survey

    May 28, 2026Sai Raj Kishore Perla, Hao Zhang, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri3D Asset GenerationTexture Synthesis

    Simon Fraser University

  22. Texture Regenerating and Grafting Using Genome-Driven Neural Cellular Automata

    May 13, 2026Mirela-Magdalena Catrina, Ioana Cristina Plajer, Alexandra BăicoianuNeural Cellular AutomataImage Generation

    Transilvania University of Brașov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics 29 Eroilor, 500036, Brașov, Romania

  23. RoomRecon: High-Quality Textured Room Layout Reconstruction on Mobile Devices

    Apr 21, 2026Seok Joon Kim, Dinh Duc Cao, Federica Spinola +23D ReconstructionIndoor Scene Reconstruction

    MAXST Co., Ltd. · Independent Researcher

  24. MESA: A Training-Free Multi-Exemplar Deep Framework for Restoring Ancient Inscription Textures

    Apr 19, 2026Vasileios Toulatzis, Sofia Theodoridou, Ioannis FudosImage GenerationImage Restoration

    University of Ioannina, Greece

  25. Towards Realistic 3D Emission Materials: Dataset, Baseline, and Evaluation for Emission Texture Generation

    Apr 13, 2026Zhiyuan Zhang, Zijian Zhou, Linjun Li +33D Texture GenerationTexture Synthesis

    Peking University · XG Tech · King’s College London

  26. Hitem3D 2.0: Multi-View Guided Native 3D Texture Generation

    Apr 10, 2026Huiang He, Shengchu Zhao, Jianwen Huang +7Multi-View Image Synthesis3D Texture Generation

    Math Magic · South China University of Technology

  27. CustomTex: High-fidelity Indoor Scene Texturing via Multi-Reference Customization

    Mar 19, 2026Weilin Chen, Jiahao Rao, Wenhao Wang +3Texture Synthesis3D Scene Editing

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University

  28. MV2UV: Generating High-quality UV Texture Maps with Multiview Prompts

    Mar 16, 2026Zheng Zhang, Qinchuan Zhang, Yuteng Ye +53D Texture GenerationTexture Synthesis

    Hisilicon Linx Lab, Huawei · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  29. OAHuman: Occlusion-Aware 3D Human Reconstruction from Monocular Images

    Mar 15, 2026Yuanwang Yang, Hongliang Liu, Muxin Zhang +43D ReconstructionMonocular 3D Reconstruction

    College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China · School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China +1

  30. GarmentPainter: Efficient 3D Garment Texture Synthesis with Character-Guided Diffusion Model

    Mar 9, 2026Jinbo Wu, Xiaobo Gao, Xing Liu +2Texture Synthesis3D Asset Generation

    Baidu Inc. · TeleAI