Gaussian Billboards: Expressive 2D Gaussian Splatting with Textures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12734v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:57:04 GMT
• Title: Gaussian Billboards: Expressive 2D Gaussian Splatting with Textures
• Authors: Sebastian Weiss, Derek Bradley,
• Abstract summary: We highlight the similarity between 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) and billboards from traditional computer graphics. We propose a modification of 2DGS to add spatially-varying color achieved using per-splat texture. We show that our method can improve the sharpness and quality of the scene representation in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative evaluations.
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• Abstract: Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as the go-to representation for reconstructing and rendering 3D scenes. The transition from 3D to 2D Gaussian primitives has further improved multi-view consistency and surface reconstruction accuracy. In this work we highlight the similarity between 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) and billboards from traditional computer graphics. Both use flat semi-transparent 2D geometry that is positioned, oriented and scaled in 3D space. However 2DGS uses a solid color per splat and an opacity modulated by a Gaussian distribution, where billboards are more expressive, modulating the color with a uv-parameterized texture. We propose to unify these concepts by presenting Gaussian Billboards, a modification of 2DGS to add spatially-varying color achieved using per-splat texture interpolation. The result is a mixture of the two representations, which benefits from both the robust scene optimization power of 2DGS and the expressiveness of texture mapping. We show that our method can improve the sharpness and quality of the scene representation in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative evaluations compared to the original 2DGS implementation.

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