Summary of Pixelgaussian: Generalizable 3d Gaussian Reconstruction From Arbitrary Views, by Xin Fei et al.
PixelGaussian: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Reconstruction from Arbitrary Views
by Xin Fei, Wenzhao Zheng, Yueqi Duan, Wei Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Kurt Keutzer, Jiwen Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed PixelGaussian framework is an efficient feed-forward approach for learning generalizable 3D Gaussian reconstruction from arbitrary views. It differs from existing methods that rely on uniform pixel-wise Gaussian representations, which learn a fixed number of 3D Gaussians for each view and struggle to generalize well to more input views. The PixelGaussian framework dynamically adapts both the Gaussian distribution and quantity based on geometric complexity, leading to more efficient representations and significant improvements in reconstruction quality. It achieves this through the introduction of a Cascade Gaussian Adapter that adjusts Gaussian distribution according to local geometry complexity identified by a keypoint scorer. This is achieved through deformable attention in context-aware hypernetworks guiding Gaussian pruning and splitting, ensuring accurate representation in complex regions while reducing redundancy. Furthermore, it designs a transformer-based Iterative Gaussian Refiner module that refines Gaussian representations through direct image-Gaussian interactions. The PixelGaussian framework can effectively reduce Gaussian redundancy as input views increase. It is evaluated on the large-scale ACID and RealEstate10K datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance with good generalization to various numbers of views. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PixelGaussian is a new way to understand 3D objects from different angles. Most current methods are limited because they learn the same number of 3D shapes for each view, which doesn’t work well when looking at an object from many sides. The PixelGaussian method is different – it adjusts its understanding of the object based on how complex the view is. This allows it to be more accurate and efficient. It uses a special adapter that looks at the shape of the object and adjusts the 3D shapes learned, and a refiner that makes sure the 3D shapes are correct. The method works well even when looking at an object from many sides. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Generalization » Pruning » Transformer
