Enhanced 3D Urban Scene Reconstruction and Point Cloud Densification using Gaussian Splatting and Google Earth Imagery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11021v2
• Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 20:07:53 GMT
• Title: Enhanced 3D Urban Scene Reconstruction and Point Cloud Densification using Gaussian Splatting and Google Earth Imagery
• Authors: Kyle Gao, Dening Lu, Hongjie He, Linlin Xu, Jonathan Li,
• Abstract summary: We construct a 3D Gaussian Splatting model of the Waterloo region centered on the University of Waterloo. We are able to achieve view-synthesis results far exceeding previous 3D view-synthesis results based on neural radiance fields.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 3D urban scene reconstruction and modelling is a crucial research area in remote sensing with numerous applications in academia, commerce, industry, and administration. Recent advancements in view synthesis models have facilitated photorealistic 3D reconstruction solely from 2D images. Leveraging Google Earth imagery, we construct a 3D Gaussian Splatting model of the Waterloo region centered on the University of Waterloo and are able to achieve view-synthesis results far exceeding previous 3D view-synthesis results based on neural radiance fields which we demonstrate in our benchmark. Additionally, we retrieved the 3D geometry of the scene using the 3D point cloud extracted from the 3D Gaussian Splatting model which we benchmarked against our Multi- View-Stereo dense reconstruction of the scene, thereby reconstructing both the 3D geometry and photorealistic lighting of the large-scale urban scene through 3D Gaussian Splatting

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