{"slug": "transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for", "title": "TransNormal-2: Geometry-Grounded Rectified Flow with Edge-Aware Decoding for Precise Normal Estimation", "summary": "Researchers introduced TransNormal-2, a geometry-grounded rectified flow model with edge-aware decoding that addresses VAE reconstruction degradation in monocular normal estimation, improving precision at object boundaries by mitigating the 8x spatial compression error.", "body_md": "Diffusion-based models enable monocular geometry estimation, yet their pixel-space precision is limited by a shared, under-studied error source: VAE reconstruction degradation. The 8x spatial compression in the VAE encoder-decoder degrades surface normals at object boundaries; even encoding and deco", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/116118/", "published_at": "2026-09-09 05:30:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 05:59:49.280368+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "machine-learning", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["TransNormal-2"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/transnormal-2-geometry-grounded-rectified-flow-with-edge-aware-decoding-for.jsonld"}}