GeoThangka Net for single-view 3D reconstruction of Thangka principal deities
Thangka images present a challenging single-view 3D reconstruction problem: scattered-point perspective, dense overlap, and fine ornamentation often give rise to topological adhesion, contour distortion, and loss of high-frequency details. We propose GeoThangka-Net, a semantic-guided, topology-aware framework for heritage-oriented 3D digitization of Thangka principal deities. The method combines semantic scene decoupling and multimodal prior generation with an adaptive occlusion-aware visibility field for manifold truncation near occlusion boundaries, and a refinement across multiple scales with frequency-aware supervision, coupling monocular depth anchoring with multi-scale frequency-aware refinement. On a cross-domain geometric proxy dataset with 420 topologically complex samples, GeoThangka-Net improves PSNR by 2.32 dB and reconstruction stability by 25.6% over representative baselines, while also improving complementary 3D geometric agreement. Human perceptual evaluation further indicates better structural plausibility. The resulting reconstructions serve as heritage-oriented geometric surrogates for visualization, interaction, and comparative analysis.
Authors
- Chaoyang Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0201-0611)
- Xiaoran Guo
- Zhiyuan Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-7248)
- Hao Peng
- Xiangyu Zhou
- Tiejun Wang
Institutions
- Northwest Minzu University (CN)
- Minzu University of China (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Heritage Science
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-026-02672-8
- Primary Topic
- Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities