Visibility-Aware Language Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05515v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:56:11 GMT
• Title: Visibility-Aware Language Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting
• Authors: Sen Wang, Kunyi Li, Siyun Liang, Elena Alegret, Jing Ma, Nassir Navab, Stefano Gasperini,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Visibility-Aware Language Aggregation (VALA), a method that computes marginal contributions for each ray and applies a visibility-aware gate to retain only visible Gaussians.<n>Our method yields a robust, view-consistent language feature embedding in a fast and memory-efficient manner.
• Score: 42.85503386524195
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, distilling open-vocabulary language features from 2D images into 3D Gaussians has attracted significant attention. Although existing methods achieve impressive language-based interactions of 3D scenes, we observe two fundamental issues: background Gaussians contributing negligibly to a rendered pixel get the same feature as the dominant foreground ones, and multi-view inconsistencies due to view-specific noise in language embeddings. We introduce Visibility-Aware Language Aggregation (VALA), a lightweight yet effective method that computes marginal contributions for each ray and applies a visibility-aware gate to retain only visible Gaussians. Moreover, we propose a streaming weighted geometric median in cosine space to merge noisy multi-view features. Our method yields a robust, view-consistent language feature embedding in a fast and memory-efficient manner. VALA improves open-vocabulary localization and segmentation across reference datasets, consistently surpassing existing works.

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