arXiv Machine Learning

Stochastic Signed Distance Processes

arXiv:2606. 20856v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-view surface reconstruction is a core problem in computer vision.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

NeuDonatello: Uncertainty-Aware Framework for Accurate Neural SDF Learning

NeuDonatello is a new framework for neural signed distance function (SDF) learning that explicitly models spatially varying uncertainty using Monte Carlo sampling. By incorporating this uncertainty into an adaptive regularization scheme and an uncertainty-aware SDF-to-density conversion, the method selectively strengthens geometric constraints where RGB supervision is unreliable, thereby improving surface reconstruction accuracy. Experiments show that NeuDonatello achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on diverse scenes using only posed RGB images.

By Alvin Jinsung Choi, Wanhee Kim, Taeyun Kim, Dasol Hong, Wooju Lee, Hyun Myung
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

GS-PI: An Optimization-Decoupled Appearance Decomposition Approach for Generating PBR Gaussian Assets

GS-PI introduces an optimization‑decoupled framework that transforms Gaussian Splatting (GS) assets into physically based rendering (PBR) compatible Gaussian assets. By treating PBR material generation as a geometry‑conditioned diffusion process on 3D point clouds, it achieves multi‑view consistency and avoids the pixel‑correspondence problems of 2D diffusion. The method employs a multi‑scale cross‑view conditioning mechanism—combining global semantic priors, photometric cues, and spatial view‑direction signals—to prevent specular highlights from baking into intrinsic colors, and then distills the predicted attributes back into a fully relightable PBR‑GS asset without requiring proxy meshes.

By Jieting Xu, Rengan Xie, Zijian Huang, Zehui Jin, Rui Wang, Yuchi Huo
arXiv AI
Sep 28

Geometric-Photometric Event-based 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing

The paper introduces GPERT, a framework that separates event-based 3D Gaussian Splatting into two rendering branches: event-by-event geometry rendering and snapshot-based radiance rendering. By employing ray-tracing and warped event images, GPERT balances accuracy and temporal resolution, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on real‑world datasets and competitive performance on synthetic data. The method operates without pretrained models or COLMAP initialization, offers flexible event selection, and produces sharp reconstructions of scene edges with rapid training.

By Kai Kohyama, Yoshimitsu Aoki, Guillermo Gallego, Shintaro Shiba
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Intrinsic decomposition and editing of 3D Gaussian splats

arXiv:2606. 31637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrinsic decomposition which expresses image colors as the product of diffuse albedo and shading, possibly augmented with view-dependent residuals has a long history in image editing as it enables the modification of object colors and textures without altering lighting.

By Alexandre Lanvin, Jeffrey Hu, Simon Lucas, Adrien Bousseau, George Drettakis