Geographically guided generation of realistic 2d renders of 3d infrastructure models

Abstract

In example embodiments, a visualization application uses geographically relevant style images as guidance to automatically generate realistic 2D renders of a 3D infrastructure model. The application generates a synthetic render of the 3D infrastructure model and retrieves a set of style images that correspond to a geographics position associated with the model. The synthetic 2D render, the set of style images and, optionally, one or more user-provided text guidance phrases and/or mask images are applied to a realistic 2D render generator of the application. The realistic 2D render generator performs image translation (guided by the optional text guidance phrases and/or mask images) to adjust visual appearance of the infrastructure in the synthetic 2D render based on the visual appearance of the set of style images and to generate realistic context based on what appears in the set of style images, thereby producing a realistic 2D render.