EndoGaussian: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12561v2
• Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:40:02 GMT
• Title: EndoGaussian: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction
• Authors: Yifan Liu, Chenxin Li, Chen Yang, Yixuan Yuan
• Abstract summary: We introduce EndoGaussian, a real-time endoscopic scene reconstruction framework built on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) Our framework significantly boosts the rendering speed to a real-time level. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate our efficacy against prior SOTAs in many aspects.
• Score: 36.35631592019182
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Reconstructing deformable tissues from endoscopic videos is essential in many downstream surgical applications. However, existing methods suffer from slow rendering speed, greatly limiting their practical use. In this paper, we introduce EndoGaussian, a real-time endoscopic scene reconstruction framework built on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By integrating the efficient Gaussian representation and highly-optimized rendering engine, our framework significantly boosts the rendering speed to a real-time level. To adapt 3DGS for endoscopic scenes, we propose two strategies, Holistic Gaussian Initialization (HGI) and Spatio-temporal Gaussian Tracking (SGT), to handle the non-trivial Gaussian initialization and tissue deformation problems, respectively. In HGI, we leverage recent depth estimation models to predict depth maps of input binocular/monocular image sequences, based on which pixels are re-projected and combined for holistic initialization. In SPT, we propose to model surface dynamics using a deformation field, which is composed of an efficient encoding voxel and a lightweight deformation decoder, allowing for Gaussian tracking with minor training and rendering burden. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate our efficacy against prior SOTAs in many aspects, including better rendering speed (195 FPS real-time, 100$\times$ gain), better rendering quality (37.848 PSNR), and less training overhead (within 2 min/scene), showing significant promise for intraoperative surgery applications. Code is available at: \url{https://yifliu3.github.io/EndoGaussian/}.

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