PhysForge

Material-Controllable
3D Reconstruction with
Separable Components

Yuchen Wang1,†, Yanqi Bao2,†,‡, Zheng Gu3, Zhengqing Chen2, Jieqi Shi1, Jing Huo1,✉

1Nanjing University2Horizon Robotic3Shenzhen University

†Equal contribution‡Project leader✉Corresponding author

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Abstract

Recent advances in physical 3D generation have enabled visually faithful assets with simulatable mechanical behavior. However, existing methods provide limited control over material behavior beyond appearance-based inference and struggle to estimate physical properties from complex interactions between objects and semantic parts. Therefore, we present PhysForge, a Video Diffusion Model (VDM)-based framework for addressing these challenges, comprising two complementary modules for material-controllable physical fitting and component-level interaction modeling. The first, PhysFit, leverages material-conditioned VDM dynamics as references for physical-property fitting, introducing windowed fitting to focus on material-revealing interactions and Hallucinated Forcing to disentangle nonphysical motion hallucinated by the VDM from material responses. The second, PhysComp decomposes complex interactions into individual objects and semantic components, enabling their physical parameters to be optimized independently and flexibly composed for joint simulation. Experiments on PhysAssets and Google Scanned Objects demonstrate that, compared with existing methods, PhysForge provides stronger control over material-dependent physical responses while supporting component-level physical modeling for complex interactions. It achieves the best CLIP and physical controllability scores on both common and uncommon materials, with qualitative comparisons, component-level ablations, and a user study further supporting these improvements.

Pipeline

Given an input image and a target material description, PhysForge uses PhysFit to fit material properties from informative intervals of generated video dynamics while accounting for nonphysical motion, and PhysComp to reconstruct separable objects and semantic parts, estimate their physical properties independently, and compose them in a shared simulation.

Comparisons

Qualitative results

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Quantitative results

CLIP alignment and physical controllability (PC). Higher is better; PC is rated by a VLM on a five-point scale.
MethodCommon materialsUncommon materials
CLIP ↑PC ↑CLIP ↑PC ↑
DreamPhysics0.2503.20.2482.6
PSIVG0.2332.00.2411.8
PhysRVG0.2433.80.2323.0
WMReward0.2464.40.2442.6
DeforM0.2424.40.2353.2
PhysGM0.2463.80.2471.8
PhysForge0.2584.60.2644.0

Component-Separable

Enlarged PhysForge method overview