Generating Heterogeneous 3D Geological Microstructures from 2D Images via a Stable Diffusion-Adversarial Model

2026-09-17

AI Summary

本文通过结合去噪扩散模型和对抗性损失，从2D图像生成3D地质微观结构，解决了复杂异质材料3D成像成本高和技术限制的问题。

Abstract

Characterizing the physical properties of clay and cementitious materials matters across many fields, from materials science to geological waste disposal. Property simulation typically calls for 3D imaging, which is expensive, not always accessible, and technically limited for certain materials. Recent progress in deep generative models offers a way around this, reconstructing 3D volumes from the more easily acquired 2D images. Among GAN-based methods for 3D microstructure generation, SliceGAN has shown strong results for homogeneous isotropic and anisotropic systems. It struggles, however, to capture the finer detail of more complex heterogeneous microstructures, which motivates alternative generative frameworks. We introduce a hybrid approach that draws on the stability and generation quality of denoising diffusion models. Since no 3D ground truth is available, we replace the standard denoising loss with an adversarial loss, which yields a stable training process in our experiments. We show that the resulting model generates microstructures of varying complexity with minimal slice artefacts and close agreement with ground-truth phase fractions and structural descriptors.

Problem

• 3D Microstructures
• 2D Images
• Heterogeneous Materials
• Deep Generative Models
• Physical Properties

Innovation

• denoising diffusion models
• adversarial loss
• heterogeneous 3D microstructures