Fast and Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting with Polarized Opacity Prior

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22344v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:21:30 GMT
• Title: Fast and Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting with Polarized Opacity Prior
• Abstract summary: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality at real-time speeds but suffers from "model bloat"<n>This inefficiency stems from the standard "densify-then-prune" paradigm.<n>We present an efficient training framework that builds an intrinsically compact representation.
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• Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality at real-time speeds but suffers from "model bloat" - a large number of redundant, low-opacity Gaussians that inflate memory usage and training costs. This inefficiency stems from the standard "densify-then-prune" paradigm, which expands the model aggressively before relying on pruning to achieve compactness. To mitigate this problem, we present an efficient training framework that builds an intrinsically compact representation, replacing the conventional densify-then-prune cycle. Our method leverages a synergistic design: an L2 reconstruction loss to provide error-proportional gradients that stabilize optimization, and a novel Polarized Opacity Prior (POP) to actively manage the Gaussian population. POP steers informative primitives toward full opacity and uninformative ones toward transparency, enabling natural pruning and accelerating rendering through Early Ray Termination. Experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that our approach consistently achieves accelerated 3DGS training with significantly fewer Gaussians while maintaining comparable visual reconstruction quality. These results show that the proposed framework provides a simple and effective path toward fast and inherently compact 3DGS training.

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