ProDiG: Progressive Diffusion-Guided Gaussian Splatting for Aerial to Ground Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02003v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:09:05 GMT
• Title: ProDiG: Progressive Diffusion-Guided Gaussian Splatting for Aerial to Ground Reconstruction
• Abstract summary: ProDiG is a diffusion-guided framework that transforms aerial 3D representations toward ground-level fidelity.<n>It produces visually realistic ground-level renderings and coherent 3D geometry, significantly outperforming existing approaches.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Generating ground-level views and coherent 3D site models from aerial-only imagery is challenging due to extreme viewpoint changes, missing intermediate observations, and large scale variations. Existing methods either refine renderings post-hoc, often producing geometrically inconsistent results, or rely on multi-altitude ground-truth, which is rarely available. Gaussian Splatting and diffusion-based refinements improve fidelity under small variations but fail under wide aerial-to-ground gaps. To address these limitations, we introduce ProDiG (Progressive Altitude Gaussian Splatting), a diffusion-guided framework that progressively transforms aerial 3D representations toward ground-level fidelity. ProDiG synthesizes intermediate-altitude views and refines the Gaussian representation at each stage using a geometry-aware causal attention module that injects epipolar structure into reference-view diffusion. A distance-adaptive Gaussian module dynamically adjusts Gaussian scale and opacity based on camera distance, ensuring stable reconstruction across large viewpoint gaps. Together, these components enable progressive, geometrically grounded refinement without requiring additional ground-truth viewpoints. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that ProDiG produces visually realistic ground-level renderings and coherent 3D geometry, significantly outperforming existing approaches in terms of visual quality, geometric consistency, and robustness to extreme viewpoint changes.

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