On Scaling Up 3D Gaussian Splatting Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18533v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:59:28 GMT
• Title: On Scaling Up 3D Gaussian Splatting Training
• Authors: Hexu Zhao, Haoyang Weng, Daohan Lu, Ang Li, Jinyang Li, Aurojit Panda, Saining Xie,
• Abstract summary: 3DGS is increasingly popular for 3D reconstruction due to its superior visual quality and rendering speed. Currently, 3DGS training occurs on a single GPU, limiting its ability to handle high-resolution and large-scale 3D reconstruction tasks. We introduce Grendel, a distributed system designed to partition 3DGS parameters and parallelize across multiple GPU.
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• Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is increasingly popular for 3D reconstruction due to its superior visual quality and rendering speed. However, 3DGS training currently occurs on a single GPU, limiting its ability to handle high-resolution and large-scale 3D reconstruction tasks due to memory constraints. We introduce Grendel, a distributed system designed to partition 3DGS parameters and parallelize computation across multiple GPUs. As each Gaussian affects a small, dynamic subset of rendered pixels, Grendel employs sparse all-to-all communication to transfer the necessary Gaussians to pixel partitions and performs dynamic load balancing. Unlike existing 3DGS systems that train using one camera view image at a time, Grendel supports batched training with multiple views. We explore various optimization hyperparameter scaling strategies and find that a simple sqrt(batch size) scaling rule is highly effective. Evaluations using large-scale, high-resolution scenes show that Grendel enhances rendering quality by scaling up 3DGS parameters across multiple GPUs. On the Rubble dataset, we achieve a test PSNR of 27.28 by distributing 40.4 million Gaussians across 16 GPUs, compared to a PSNR of 26.28 using 11.2 million Gaussians on a single GPU. Grendel is an open-source project available at: https://github.com/nyu-systems/Grendel-GS

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