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pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

2 Dec 2020CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2012.00926archive 2025-07-28

Eric R. Chan, Marco Monteiro, Petr Kellnhofer, Jiajun Wu, Gordon Wetzstein

We have witnessed rapid progress on 3D-aware image synthesis, leveraging recent advances in generative visual models and neural rendering. Existing approaches however fall short in two ways: first, they may lack an underlying 3D representation or rely on view-inconsistent rendering, hence synthesizing images that are not multi-view consistent; second, they often depend upon representation network architectures that are not expressive enough, and their results thus lack in image quality. We propose a novel generative model, named Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks (π-GAN or pi-GAN), for high-quality 3D-aware image synthesis. π-GAN leverages neural representations with periodic activation functions and volumetric rendering to represent scenes as view-consistent 3D representations with fine detail. The proposed approach obtains state-of-the-art results for 3D-aware image synthesis with multiple real and synthetic datasets.

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3D-Aware Image SynthesisImage GenerationNeural RenderingScene Generation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Scene Generation AVD pi-GAN FID 98.76 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Generation AVD pi-GAN SwAV-FID 9.54 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Generation Replica pi-GAN FID 166.55 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Generation Replica pi-GAN SwAV-FID 13.17 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Generation VizDoom pi-GAN FID 143.55 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Generation VizDoom pi-GAN SwAV-FID 15.26 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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