3DGUT: Enabling Distorted Cameras and Secondary Rays in Gaussian Splatting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12507v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:21:25 GMT
• Title: 3DGUT: Enabling Distorted Cameras and Secondary Rays in Gaussian Splatting
• Authors: Qi Wu, Janick Martinez Esturo, Ashkan Mirzaei, Nicolas Moenne-Loccoz, Zan Gojcic,
• Abstract summary: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown great potential for efficient reconstruction and high-fidelity real-time rendering on consumer hardware. 3DGS is constrained to ideal pinhole cameras and lacks support for secondary lighting effects. Recent methods address these limitations by tracing particles instead. We propose 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform (3DGUT), replacing the EWA splatting in 3DGS with the Unscented Transform.
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• Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown great potential for efficient reconstruction and high-fidelity real-time rendering of complex scenes on consumer hardware. However, due to its rasterization-based formulation, 3DGS is constrained to ideal pinhole cameras and lacks support for secondary lighting effects. Recent methods address these limitations by tracing volumetric particles instead, however, this comes at the cost of significantly slower rendering speeds. In this work, we propose 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform (3DGUT), replacing the EWA splatting formulation in 3DGS with the Unscented Transform that approximates the particles through sigma points, which can be projected exactly under any nonlinear projection function. This modification enables trivial support of distorted cameras with time dependent effects such as rolling shutter, while retaining the efficiency of rasterization. Additionally, we align our rendering formulation with that of tracing-based methods, enabling secondary ray tracing required to represent phenomena such as reflections and refraction within the same 3D representation.

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