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arxivcs.CV2026-07-02

PointDiT: Pixel-Space Diffusion for Monocular Geometry Estimation

Haofei Xu, Rundi Wu, Philipp Henzler, Nikolai Kalischek, Michael Oechsle, Fabian Manhardt, Marc Pollefeys, Andreas Geiger, Federico Tombari, Michael Niemeyer

State-of-the-art single-image 3D reconstruction methods often rely on complex hybrid architectures and loss functions, or compress geometry into latent spaces in order to leverage pre-trained latent diffusion models. In this work, we show that such architectural overhead and intricate loss formulations are unnecessary. We introduce a minimalist pixel-space Diffusion Transformer, built on a plain ViT, that operates directly on raw 3D point map patches and is conditioned on image tokens from a pre-trained DINOv3. Unlike existing latent diffusion approaches, we train our diffusion backbone entirely from scratch, eliminating the need for point map tokenizers. Despite its simplicity, our approach surpasses complex latent-based diffusion models while remaining significantly simpler than hybrid alternatives. Notably, it produces sharper geometric structure and is more robust in highly ambiguous regions, such as transparent objects.

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