Jin Daily AI Trivia: 🖼️➡️🗿 Image to 3D Model – Sparc3D from NTU Singapore

Jin Daily AI Trivia: 🖼️➡️🗿 Image to 3D Model – Sparc3D from NTU Singapore

There are plenty of AI tools that can turn images into 3D models, but Sparc3D is easily one of the current SOTA (state-of-the-art) models.

Created by Zhihao Li, a PhD student at NTU Singapore specializing in 3D vision, Sparc3D runs on a CPU-only instance and takes about 2 minutes to generate a 3D model. The best part? Sharp, detailed, and seriously good — enough to rival the paid 3D model generators from huge companies.

Check out his work on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ilcve21/Sparc3D

They did form a company Hitem3D afterward for more feature but the HF model can still be use for free.

Hope you learned something new today! See ya!

PS: Hope Malaysia University can release such good quality research like this in the future!! https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14521