STARS-GS: Structure-Aware Regularized Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial Surface Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03447v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:03:10 GMT
• Title: STARS-GS: Structure-Aware Regularized Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial Surface Reconstruction
• Abstract summary: We propose STARS-GS, a structure-aware 3DGS framework for large-scale surface reconstruction.<n>First, we introduce a structure-aware scene partitioning strategy that better preserves continuous scene structures during partitioning.<n>Second, we develop neighborhood-aware Gaussian organization that extends geometric constraints from individual primitives to their neighborhood organization.<n>Third, we introduce adaptive surface regularization that adjusts the regularization strength according to local geometric characteristics.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale 3D surface reconstruction from aerial imagery is fundamental to geospatial mapping and urban modeling. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated considerable potential for this task. However, existing methods still face three major challenges in large and complex scenes: scene partitioning may split continuous scene elements across independently optimized sub-regions; geometric constraints mainly focus on the attributes of individual Gaussians while overlooking their local organization; and uniform regularization struggles to accommodate heterogeneous geometric structures. To address these issues, we propose STARS-GS, a structure-aware 3DGS framework for large-scale surface reconstruction. First, we introduce a structure-aware scene partitioning strategy that better preserves continuous scene structures during partitioning and reduces cross-region geometric inconsistencies and stitching artifacts through boundary refinement. Second, we develop neighborhood-aware Gaussian organization that extends geometric constraints from individual primitives to their neighborhood organization, encouraging Gaussians to better conform to local surface geometry. Third, we introduce adaptive surface regularization that adjusts the regularization strength according to local geometric characteristics, promoting geometric consistency in structured regions while preserving plausible variations in unstructured regions. Extensive experiments on large-scale aerial photogrammetry benchmarks demonstrate that STARS-GS consistently outperforms the evaluated Gaussian-based methods in surface reconstruction. It increases the average F1-score from 0.640 for the second-best method to 0.698, corresponding to a relative improvement of approximately 9.1\%, demonstrating effective improvements in geometric accuracy and surface completeness.

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