Spec-Gaussian: Anisotropic View-Dependent Appearance for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Abstract

The recent advancements in 3DGS have not only facilitated real-time rendering through modern GPU rasterization pipelines but have also attained SOTA rendering quality. Nevertheless, despite its exceptional rendering quality and performance on standard datasets, 3D-GS frequently encounters difficulties in accurately modeling specular and anisotropic components. This issue stems from the limited ability of spherical harmonics (SH) to represent high-frequency information.

To overcome this challenge, we introduce Spec-Gaussian, an approach that utilizes an anisotropic spherical Gaussian (ASG) appearance field instead of SH for modeling the view-dependent appearance of each 3D Gaussian.

Additionally, we have developed a coarse-to-fine training strategy to improve learning efficiency and eliminate floaters caused by overfitting in real-world scenes.

Our experimental results demonstrate that our method surpasses existing approaches in terms of rendering quality. Thanks to ASG, we have significantly improved the ability of 3DGS to model scenes with specular and anisotropic components without increasing the number of 3D Gaussians.

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Our method not only achieves real-time rendering but also significantly enhances the capability of 3DGS to model scenes with specular and anisotropic components.

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