Paul Engstler

Computer Vision PhD Candidate

Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford

I create synthetic 3D data to train the next generation of foundation models.

I'm a PhD candidate in the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford (supervised by Andrea Vedaldi, Christian Rupprecht, and Iro Laina). During my PhD, I've interned at Meta Reality Labs (supervised by Adam Harley and Jakob Engel).

SynCity 3000: Bootstrapping Scene-Scale 3D Diffusion

Paul Engstler, Iro Laina, Christian Rupprecht, Andrea Vedaldi

ECCV 2026

Visually and semantically coherent 3D worlds through scene-scale diffusion with fine-grained layout control. We fine-tune a pre-trained diffusion model to apply it as a convolutional operator for scene-scale 3D generation.

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SynCity: Training-Free Generation of 3D Worlds

Paul Engstler*, Aleksandar Shtedritski*, Iro Laina, Christian Rupprecht, Andrea Vedaldi

ICCV 2025

Fully navigable 3D worlds beyond the small "bubble" worlds generated by prior methods. We prompt pre-trained 2D image and image-to-3D generators to create immersive environments without any training.

* denotes equal contribution