Morning Edition · Thursday, September 24, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York

A Penn Team Rebuilds Full 3D Rooms From One Photo by Making a Vision Model Plan the Order

HARMONY calibrates the camera, infers the room layout, then places walls, wall-mounted items and furniture in sequence, and the researchers released a 300-scene benchmark to score the results.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania released HARMONY, a hierarchical agentic reasoning framework for monocular image-to-scene synthesis, a system that reconstructs a complete three-dimensional scene from a single photograph. The s…