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CLIP-Forge: Towards Zero-Shot Text-to-Shape Generation

6 Oct 2021CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2110.02624archive 2025-07-28

Aditya Sanghi, Hang Chu, Joseph G. Lambourne, Ye Wang, Chin-Yi Cheng, Marco Fumero, Kamal Rahimi Malekshan

Generating shapes using natural language can enable new ways of imagining and creating the things around us. While significant recent progress has been made in text-to-image generation, text-to-shape generation remains a challenging problem due to the unavailability of paired text and shape data at a large scale. We present a simple yet effective method for zero-shot text-to-shape generation that circumvents such data scarcity. Our proposed method, named CLIP-Forge, is based on a two-stage training process, which only depends on an unlabelled shape dataset and a pre-trained image-text network such as CLIP. Our method has the benefits of avoiding expensive inference time optimization, as well as the ability to generate multiple shapes for a given text. We not only demonstrate promising zero-shot generalization of the CLIP-Forge model qualitatively and quantitatively, but also provide extensive comparative evaluations to better understand its behavior.

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