Summary of Autosplat: Constrained Gaussian Splatting For Autonomous Driving Scene Reconstruction, by Mustafa Khan and Hamidreza Fazlali and Dhruv Sharma and Tongtong Cao and Dongfeng Bai and Yuan Ren and Bingbing Liu
AutoSplat: Constrained Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving Scene Reconstruction
by Mustafa Khan, Hamidreza Fazlali, Dhruv Sharma, Tongtong Cao, Dongfeng Bai, Yuan Ren, Bingbing Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes AutoSplat, a framework that uses Gaussian splatting to achieve highly realistic reconstructions of autonomous driving scenes. The method excels in simulating complex backgrounds, dynamic objects, and sparse views by imposing geometric constraints on Gaussians representing road and sky regions. It also introduces reflected Gaussian consistency constraint for foreground objects and estimates residual spherical harmonics to model their dynamic appearance. AutoSplat outperforms state-of-the-art methods in scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis across diverse driving scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes a special computer program that can make realistic pictures of roads and cars for autonomous vehicles. The program uses something called Gaussian splatting, which is good at making simple scenes but struggles with complex backgrounds and moving objects. To fix this, the researchers created new rules to help the program make better predictions about what it should see in a scene, like where the road goes or how trees move in the wind. They tested their program on two big datasets and found that it works much better than other programs at making realistic pictures of roads and cars. |
