Summary of Garfield++: Reinforced Gaussian Radiance Fields For Large-scale 3d Scene Reconstruction, by Hanyue Zhang et al.
GaRField++: Reinforced Gaussian Radiance Fields for Large-Scale 3D Scene Reconstruction
by Hanyue Zhang, Zhiliu Yang, Xinhe Zuo, Yuxin Tong, Ying Long, Chen Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel framework for large-scale scene reconstruction, addressing scalability and accuracy challenges. The framework, called 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), splits scenes into multiple cells and correlates point-clouds and camera views through visibility-based selection and progressive extension. To improve rendering quality, the authors introduce three enhancements: ray-Gaussian intersection, Gaussians density control for learning efficiency, and an appearance decoupling module based on ConvKAN networks to handle uneven lighting conditions. The framework also includes a refined final loss with color loss, depth distortion loss, and normal consistency loss. Evaluation on Mill19, Urban3D, and MatrixCity datasets shows that the method generates more high-fidelity rendering results than state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, the authors validate the generalizability of their approach by rendering self-collected video clips recorded by a commercial drone. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to rebuild big scenes using 3D images and cameras. It solves two main problems: making it possible to do this on a large scale without losing accuracy, and ensuring that the resulting images look realistic. To achieve this, the authors split the scene into smaller parts, match up the camera views and point-clouds within each part, and then combine them to create a complete image. They also developed new techniques to handle lighting problems and to make sure the final images are smooth and detailed. The results show that their method is better than current methods at creating realistic images of big scenes. |
