MatLat: Material Latent Space for PBR Texture Generation

KAIST
PBR Textures Generated by MatLat

PBR Textures Generated by MatLat. Our method produces PBR textures that accurately represent rough materials (left), metallic surfaces (middle), and complex mixed materials (right).

Abstract

We propose a generative framework for producing high-quality PBR textures on a given 3D mesh. As large-scale PBR texture datasets are scarce, our approach focuses on effectively leveraging the embedding space and diffusion priors of pretrained latent image generative models while learning a material latent space, MatLat, through targeted fine-tuning. Unlike prior methods that freeze the embedding network and thus lead to distribution shifts when encoding additional PBR channels and hinder subsequent diffusion training, we fine-tune the pretrained VAE so that new material channels can be incorporated with minimal latent distribution deviation. We further show that correspondence-aware attention alone is insufficient for cross-view consistency unless the latent-to-image mapping preserves locality. To enforce this locality, we introduce a regularization in the VAE fine-tuning that crops latent patches, decodes them, and aligns the corresponding image regions to maintain strong pixel–latent spatial correspondence.

Ablation studies and comparison with previous baselines demonstrate that our framework improves PBR texture fidelity and that each component is critical for achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Comparisons with Previous Methods

MeshGen
TexGaussian
Paint-it
DreamMat
FlashTex
MaterialAnything
MaterialMVP
MatLat (Ours)

Ablation Studies

\text{Frozen VAE}
\text{Res. Pred} + \mathcal{L}_{\text{id}}
\text{Direct Pred} + \mathcal{L}_{\text{reg}}
\text{Res. Pred} + \mathcal{L}_{\text{reg}} \text{(Ours)}
A sand-beige nubuck boot with matte texture, leather accents, and metal buckles
A dark metallic helmet with brass trim, cream horns with swirls
A rugged navy case with brass hinges, steel handle, and stitched leather straps
A matte graphite radio with charcol front face and bright tangerine soft-touch handle
A deep charcoal shield with bronze-gold inlays, gold filigree
A green pineapple grenade with yellow hazard stripe
A pastel mint mascot figure with matte cream gloves
A teal cushioned stool with matte black legs and brass studs

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