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PoseAlign deforms 3D meshes from text while keeping the original pose, via global Laplacian scaling then pose-aligned local sculpting.

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2026-07-15 09:15 UTC pith:PE6OFBZN

load-bearing objection Practical two-stage text-guided mesh deformation that claims better pose control via Laplacian + pose-aligned SDS; abstract-only so the key mechanism is uncheckable. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.10560 v2 pith:PE6OFBZN submitted 2026-07-12 cs.GR cs.CV

PoseAlign: Sculpting Pose-Consistent Meshes via Text-Guided Deformation

Shijin Wang , Zichong Chen , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang This is my paper
classification cs.GR cs.CV
keywords mesh deformationtext-guided 3Dpose preservationLaplacian representationscore distillation samplingattention sharing3D generation
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Text-guided 3D mesh deformation often warps a mesh into a new pose when it tries to match a prompt, so the result no longer looks like the same character or object in a new shape. PoseAlign splits the job into two stages so pose and text can be controlled separately. First it uses a differentiable Laplacian mesh representation to scale and adjust the mesh globally in a smooth, efficient way that sets the overall pose. Second it sculpts fine surface details with a pose-aligned score distillation sampling loss that shares attention, so local geometry can follow the text without undoing the pose. The claim is that this decomposition gives better controllability and a clearer balance between pose preservation and text alignment than prior single-stage methods, while keeping competitive mesh quality.

Core claim

Text-guided mesh deformation can be made pose-consistent by decomposing it into global pose scaling with a differentiable Laplacian representation, followed by local detail sculpting with a novel pose-aligned SDS loss that uses attention sharing; this yields controllable deformation that preserves the original pose while matching the text prompt.

What carries the argument

The two-stage pipeline itself: Laplacian as a differentiable mesh representation for smooth global pose scaling, plus a pose-aligned SDS loss adapted with an attention-sharing mechanism that sculpts local geometry without erasing the pose set in stage one.

Load-bearing premise

That adapting score distillation sampling with attention sharing is enough to add fine geometric detail while truly locking in the pose established by the first stage.

What would settle it

Run the same input meshes and text prompts through PoseAlign and prior single-stage text-guided deformation baselines; if PoseAlign does not measurably better preserve source pose (e.g., via skeleton or keypoint alignment) while matching or beating text-alignment and mesh-quality scores, the claimed balance fails.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PoseAlign, a two-stage pipeline for text-guided 3D mesh deformation that first performs global pose scaling via a differentiable Laplacian mesh representation and then applies local detail sculpting through a novel pose-aligned SDS loss that incorporates an attention-sharing mechanism. The central claim is that this decomposition yields improved controllability and a favorable balance between preserving the input mesh pose and aligning the deformed geometry to the text prompt, with competitive mesh quality relative to prior text-guided deformation methods.

Significance. If the two-stage design and pose-aligned SDS construction deliver the claimed pose-text balance, the work would address a recognized practical limitation in text-driven mesh editing and could be useful for graphics applications that require pose-consistent edits. The explicit use of a differentiable Laplacian for the global stage and the adaptation of SDS via attention-sharing are concrete technical choices; public code is also a positive. Significance remains provisional, however, because the abstract alone supplies no equations, ablations, quantitative tables, or failure-case analysis that would allow the claimed balance to be assessed.

major comments (2)
  1. The abstract asserts that the pose-aligned SDS loss (with attention-sharing) sculpts fine-grained details while preserving the pose established by the Laplacian stage. This is the load-bearing mechanism for the claimed pose-text balance, yet neither the loss definition, the attention-sharing construction, nor any isolating ablation is visible. Without those elements the central claim cannot be verified from the available text.
  2. The abstract states that experiments demonstrate competitive advantages in text alignment and mesh quality, but supplies no quantitative metrics, baseline comparisons, tables, or error bars. The empirical support for the strongest claim is therefore uninspectable, leaving open the possibility of residual pose drift, over-smoothing, or SDS artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract introduces free parameters (SDS guidance weights, attention-sharing weights, Laplacian deformation strength) without indicating how they are set or whether the method is sensitive to them.
  2. Terminology such as “pose-aligned SDS” and “attention-sharing mechanism” is used without even a high-level schematic or reference to a figure that would clarify the data flow between the deformed-mesh rendering and the pose-reference path.

Circularity Check

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full rationale

Only the abstract is available. It describes a two-stage optimization pipeline (Laplacian-based global pose scaling + pose-aligned SDS with attention-sharing for local sculpting) and asserts a favorable pose-preservation / text-alignment balance with competitive mesh quality. No equations, loss definitions, fitted parameters, uniqueness theorems, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. SDS is a standard external technique; adapting it with attention-sharing is presented as a novel method contribution, not as a closed-form prediction derived from fitted inputs. There is no self-definitional loop, no fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, and no uniqueness claim imported from the authors' prior work. The reader's mild concern that SDS inherits text alignment from a frozen diffusion prior is a correctness/evidence issue about external priors, not circularity under the enumerated patterns. Per the hard rules, an abstract-only paper with no inspectable reduction of claim to input scores 0; steps remain empty. Evidence gaps (missing loss definition, ablations) are noted by the skeptic but do not constitute circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 3 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review. Free parameters (SDS guidance weights, Laplacian scales, attention-sharing coefficients) are almost certainly present in the full method but not named here. Core axioms are standard graphics/ML assumptions. No new physical entities are invented; the 'pose-aligned SDS loss' is a methodological construct.

free parameters (2)
  • SDS / guidance and attention-sharing weights (unspecified)
    Score-distillation and attention-sharing pipelines typically introduce scalar weights and schedules that are tuned for visual quality; values are not given in the abstract.
  • Global pose-scaling / Laplacian deformation strength
    Stage-1 global deformation almost certainly has a scale or regularization strength chosen for stability; not specified in abstract.
axioms (3)
  • domain assumption Score distillation sampling from a pretrained 2D diffusion model can drive 3D mesh vertex updates toward text-aligned geometry.
    Standard SDS assumption in recent text-to-3D work; invoked as the basis of the second-stage loss.
  • domain assumption Laplacian coordinates provide a differentiable mesh representation that yields smoother global deformations than raw vertex optimization.
    Classic mesh-processing assumption used for stage-1 global pose scaling.
  • ad hoc to paper Attention-sharing between the deformed mesh rendering and a pose-reference path preserves pose while allowing detail sculpting.
    The abstract presents this as the novel mechanism of the pose-aligned SDS loss; it is paper-specific and unproven in the abstract alone.
invented entities (1)
  • pose-aligned SDS loss (with attention-sharing) no independent evidence
    purpose: Sculpt fine geometric details from text while locking the pose established in stage 1.
    Methodological construct introduced by the paper; independent evidence would require ablations and pose-error metrics not visible in the abstract.

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Mesh deformation, the process of altering the vertex positions of a 3D mesh while preserving its topological structure, is a cornerstone of computer graphics. Despite the recent emergence of numerous text-guided 3D mesh deformation methods, deforming an initial mesh into one that both adheres to text prompts and preserves its pose remains challenging. This paper proposes PoseAlign, which decomposes text-guided mesh deformation into two stages: global pose scaling and local detail sculpting. Specifically, in the first stage, we introduce the Laplacian as a differentiable mesh representation to enable more efficient yet smoother global deformation. Then, we propose a novel pose-aligned SDS loss by adapting score distillation sampling (SDS) with an attention-sharing mechanism, which sculptures fine-grained geometric details for the deformed mesh while preserving its original pose. PoseAlign significantly enhances the controllability of the overall deformation process, achieving a favorable balance between pose preservation and text alignment. Experiments demonstrate the competitive advantages of our method in text alignment and mesh quality. Code is available at: https://cousingrade6.github.io/PoseAlign

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.10560 by Hui Huang, Shijin Wang, Yang Zhou, Zichong Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Pose-preserved text-guided mesh defor￾mation. Given a source mesh, PoseAlign is capable of deforming it to a target mesh that aligns with the text semantics while preserving its original pose. character posing, morphing, and animation [11, 14, 18, 42]. Traditional methods rely on geometric priors (e.g, As-Rigid-As-Possible [54], Laplacian deformation [56]), or handle-based controls [24, 55], which require … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Jacobians vs Laplacians and CLIP Loss vs SDS Loss. Meshes deformed using different geometric representations and loss functions from the same source mesh into “a giraffe” with 200 iterations. In terms of loss functions, CLIP loss is more computationally ef￾ficient, while it performs significantly worse in terms of smoothness than SDS loss with attention sharing. In terms of geometric representations, Lapla… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Method Pipeline. We decompose the mesh deformation process into two stages: Global Pose Scaling and Local Detail Sculpting. The first stage optimizes the Laplacians to generate a deformed mesh via Poisson solver, followed by differentiable rendering [31] to produce rendered images. These images are then evaluated against the text prompt using the CLIP loss. The second stage leverages the Jacobians to furth… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of the noise timestep. The left comparison shows the deformed results when using timestep t/2 (top row) and t (bottom row) for the reference branch. The right column presents the corresponding noisy rendered images of the source mesh at these timesteps, illustrating the difference in feature preservation. grounded in the diffusion model distribution, as demon￾strated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Semantic correspondence captured by attention-sharing mechanism. Left: We visualize the self￾attention probability maps across the generated images, with distinct colored stars marking different semantic components. By introducing the attention-sharing (AS) mechanism, the diffusion model effectively captures se￾mantic correspondences from the rendered reference image (leftmost) across the generated images,… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Results Gallery of PoseAlign. PoseAlign robustly preserves the original pose of the source meshes across various animal models, maintaining structural alignment while enabling versatile shape transformations. mations among adjacent faces. To mitigate this issue, following [19], we introduce a Jacobian regularization loss that penalizes deviations of the Jacobians from the identity matrix I, which is: Lreg … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparison. We compare our method against MeshUp and TextDeformer by deforming the same source mesh with the text prompt “a pig”. The top row visualizes the UV map correspondence and surface distortion by transferring the source mesh’s texture onto the deformed results. The bottom row highlights self-intersections in the outputs in red. perception. Finally, Tab. 3 evaluates the intrinsic mesh q… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Visual comparison under different Stage I and Stage II optimization iteration ratios. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Necessity of Stage I. The top row illustrates the deformation process of our full method, where the source mesh undergoes a smooth and controlled trans￾formation into a target giraffe shape across 100, 200, and 1000 iterations. The bottom row shows the results when Stage I is omitted. 5.4 Additional results and applications Image-Guided Deformation. We first extend our framework to support image-guided me… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: We use the textual inversion technique to con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Deformed meshes with generated textures. The results are organized into three groups according to the source mesh used. Specifically, the first group (column 1-3) uses the one shown in the first row of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Validation of PoseAlign under challenging poses. Mesh Deformation of Kung Fu Panda and The Thinker. The results highlight our method’s limitations in preserving intricate source poses during deformation, particularly for human-to-animal transformations. try at a fine-grained level and may not produce results that visually distinguish the output from the source mesh. This is a genuine limitation of our met… view at source ↗

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