Image synthesis has attracted emerging research interests in academic and
industry communities. Deep learning technologies especially the generative
models greatly inspired controllable image synthesis approaches and
applications, which aim to generate particular visual contents with latent
prompts. In order to further investigate low-level controllable image synthesis
problem which is crucial for fine image rendering and editing tasks, we present
a survey of some recent works on 3D controllable image synthesis using deep
learning. We first introduce the datasets and evaluation indicators for 3D
controllable image synthesis. Then, we review the state-of-the-art research for
geometrically controllable image synthesis in two aspects: 1)
Viewpoint/pose-controllable image synthesis; 2) Structure/shape-controllable
image synthesis. Furthermore, the photometrically controllable image synthesis
approaches are also reviewed for 3D re-lighting researches. While the emphasis
is on 3D controllable image synthesis algorithms, the related applications,
products and resources are also briefly summarized for practitioners.Comment: 19 pages, 17 figure