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Results
We render a video of each 3D physic animation predicted by our model and other competitors. A state-of-the-art VLM Gemini-Pro-2.5 is used to evaluate the realism and score the candidates.
VLM Score vs Runtime: On the PixieVerse benchmark, Pixie outperforms DreamPhysics,
OmniPhysGS
and NeRF2Physics by 1.46-4.39x in
Gemini‑Pro realism while running 10³× faster.
More quantitative results! We also report perceptual metrics (PSNR, SSIM) against the
reference videos in
PixieVerse, the VLM Gemini scores, and five other metrics our
method optimizes including discrete material accuracy and continuous errors over E, ν, ρ. Standard
errors and 95% CI are also included, and best values are bolded. Pixie is by far the
best
performer.
1.46-4.39x improvement in VLM score and 3.6-30.3% gains in PSNR and SSIM against competitors!
What Pixie predicts: Pixie simultaneously recovers
discrete material class , E, ν, ρ with a high degree of accuracy. For example, the model correctly
labels
labels foliage as elastic and
the metal can as rigid, while recovering realistic stiffness and density gradients within each object.
Pixie against baselines visually: We visualized the predicted material class and E
(left, right respectively) for Pixie and Nerf2Physics, E for DreamPhysics (right), and the
plasticity and hyperelastic function classes predicted by OmniPhysGS.
Pixie produces
stable, physically plausible motion while DreamPhysics remains overly stiff due to inaccurate
finegrained E
prediction or too high E, OmniPhysGS collapses under load due to unrealistic combination of plasticity
and hyperelastic functions, and NeRF2Physics exhibits noisy
artifacts in material predictions.
Zero-shot Transfer to Real Scenes
Interactively explore Pixie's material predictions on captured NeRF scenes. Drag the slider to compare input RGB with predicted physics fields, switch feature views, and pick different scenes via thumbnails.
Ablation Study
Authors
Citation
If you find this work useful, please consider citing:@article{le2025pixie,
title={Pixie: Fast and Generalizable Supervised Learning of 3D Physics from Pixels},
author={Le, Long and Lucas, Ryan and Wang, Chen and Chen, Chuhao and Jayaraman, Dinesh and Eaton, Eric and Liu, Lingjie},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17437},
year={2025}
}