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ARXIV:2603.28763 · AI FOR SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:16 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28763AI FOR SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATIONSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:16 UTCFRESHNESS STALELorenza Prospero · Orest Kupyn · Ostap Viniavskyi · João F. Henriques · Christian Rupprecht · arXiv
PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods.
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Pain PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods.
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PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods. Existing datasets are either real, with manually annotated 3D geometry and…
Acquiring labeled datasets for 3D human mesh estimation is challenging due to depth ambiguities and the inherent difficulty of annotating 3D geometry from monocular images. Existing datasets are either real, with manually annotated 3D…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Models trained on PoseDreamer achieve performance comparable to or superior to those trained on real-world and traditional synthetic datasets. Code availability is flagged in…
AI for Synthetic Data Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28763PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods.
Abstract
Acquiring labeled datasets for 3D human mesh estimation is challenging due to depth ambiguities and the inherent difficulty of annotating 3D geometry from monocular images. Existing datasets are either real, with manually annotated 3D geometry and limited scale, or synthetic, rendered from 3D engines that provide precise labels but suffer from limited photorealism, low diversity, and high production costs. In this work, we explore a third path: generated data. We introduce PoseDreamer, a novel pipeline that leverages diffusion models to generate large-scale synthetic datasets with 3D mesh annotations. Our approach combines controllable image generation with Direct Preference Optimization for control alignment, curriculum-based hard sample mining, and multi-stage quality filtering. Together, these components naturally maintain correspondence between 3D labels and generated images, while prioritizing challenging samples to maximize dataset utility. Using PoseDreamer, we generate more than 500,000 high-quality synthetic samples, achieving a 76% improvement in image-quality metrics compared to rendering-based datasets. Models trained on PoseDreamer achieve performance comparable to or superior to those trained on real-world and traditional synthetic datasets. In addition, combining PoseDreamer with synthetic datasets results in better performance than combining real-world and synthetic datasets, demonstrating the complementary nature of our dataset. We will release the full dataset and generation code.
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PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods. Existing datasets are either real, with manually annotated 3D geometry and limited...
METHOD
Acquiring labeled datasets for 3D human mesh estimation is challenging due to depth ambiguities and the inherent difficulty of annotating 3D geometry from monocular images. Existing datasets are either real, with manually annotated 3D geometry and limited scale, or synthetic, re...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Models trained on PoseDreamer achieve performance comparable to or superior to those trained on real-world and traditional synthetic datasets. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the pu...
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AI for Synthetic Data Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
achieving a 76% improvement in image-quality metrics compared to rendering-based datasets.
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Models trained on PoseDreamer achieve performance comparable to or superior to those trained on real-world and traditional synthetic datasets.
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Our approach combines controllable image generation with Direct Preference Optimization for control alignment
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Using PoseDreamer, we generate more than 500,000 high-quality synthetic samples
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combining PoseDreamer with synthetic datasets results in better performance than combining real-world and synthetic datasets
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curriculum-based hard sample mining, and multi-stage quality filtering. Together, these components... prioritize challenging samples to maximize dataset utility.
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generated images may not perfectly match very specific industry needs without further customization options.
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In contrast, we condition the generation process on the label, ensuring a high consistency between the image and annotation.
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PoseDreamer generates highly photorealistic synthetic datasets for human 3D mesh estimation using diffusion models, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional synthetic dataset methods.
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