Densifying only visible Gaussians improves occluded 3D scene reconstruction

Filtering training statistics by actual rendering contribution improved visual quality while keeping Gaussian counts smaller and bounded.

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Marcel Rogge · René Schuster · Didier Stricker

University Kaiserslautern-Landau – RPTU · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI

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Rogge, Schuster and Stricker identify an occlusion flaw in the adaptive density control used to grow 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructions.

Standard 3D Gaussian Splatting decides where to add detail using gradient statistics averaged across views.

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