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.

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npj Heritage Science
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2026-05-27
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-026-02672-8
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Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
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Abstract

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.

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Northwest Minzu University (CN), Minzu University of China (CN)
Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
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