3D clay microstructure synthesis using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

This work is concerned with the challenging task of generating 3D-consistent binary microstructures of heterogeneous clay materials. We leverage denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to do so and show that DDPMs outperform two classical generative adversarial networks (GANs) for a 2D gene...

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Main Authors: Ali Aouf, Eric Laloy, Bart Rogiers, Christophe De Vleeschouwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
Series:Applied Computing and Geosciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590197425000308
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Summary:This work is concerned with the challenging task of generating 3D-consistent binary microstructures of heterogeneous clay materials. We leverage denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to do so and show that DDPMs outperform two classical generative adversarial networks (GANs) for a 2D generation task. Next, our experiments demonstrate that our DDPMs can produce high-quality, diverse realizations that well capture the spatial statistics of two distinct clay microstructures. Moreover, we show that DDPMs can be implicitly trained to generate porosity-conditioned samples. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that addresses clay microstructure generation with DDPMs.
ISSN:2590-1974