arXiv Computer Vision

PlenoCI: Plenoptic CharacterIstics for View Dependence Aware Change Classification

PlenoCI introduces a novel feature derived from the plenoptic field of radiance representations like 3D Gaussian Splatting, capturing rich visual behaviors while ignoring Lambertian textures. By computing closed‑form analytic plenoptic derivatives, the method robustly detects 5D structures and reduces false positives by two orders of magnitude compared to prior work. PlenoCI is applied to change classification, achieving a 25.7% mIoU improvement on CL‑Splats and a balanced accuracy of 0.735 for distinguishing geometric from appearance‑based changes.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

3DGS-HPC: Distractor-free 3D Gaussian Splatting with Hybrid Patch-wise Classification

3DGS-HPC is a framework that improves 3D Gaussian Splatting for novel view synthesis by mitigating transient distractors such as moving objects and varying shadows. It combines a patch‑wise classification strategy that uses local spatial consistency for robust region‑level decisions with a hybrid classification metric that adaptively integrates photometric and perceptual cues. Experiments show that this approach outperforms existing methods in reducing distractor effects and enhancing 3DGS quality.

By Jiahao Chen, Yipeng Qin, Ganlong Zhao, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, Guanbin Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

WilLaGS: Latent-Conditional 3D Appearance Fields for Robust Gaussian Splatting In-the-Wild

WilLaGS introduces a unified framework that enhances 3D Gaussian Splatting for in-the-wild scenes by learning a continuous global appearance manifold with a β‑VAE and generating dynamic Tri‑Plane features for spatially‑varying local illumination. It also incorporates a self‑supervised perceptual masking mechanism using a Teacher‑Student EMA architecture to suppress transient artifacts and identify inconsistent regions. Experiments on multiple datasets show that WilLaGS achieves state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction quality and novel view synthesis while preserving real‑time rendering efficiency.

By Yuhao Bai, Qianqiu Tan, Lilong Chen, Huanhuan Lv, Lijun Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 20

GS-VLA: Plug-and-Play Viewpoint Canonicalization for Frozen VLA Policies via Gaussian Splatting

GS‑VLA introduces a lightweight, plug‑and‑play framework that uses a 4 M‑parameter 3D‑Gaussian canonicalizer to adapt frozen Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) policies to viewpoint shifts without retraining the policy. By treating viewpoint changes as a localized novel‑view synthesis problem under a locality assumption, the method normalizes observations through a scene‑ and policy‑independent disocclusion task. Experiments on the LIBERO benchmark demonstrate that GS‑VLA recovers a large portion of performance lost due to camera displacement, improving results across different policy architectures, unseen task suites, and perturbation scales. whyItMatters":"The approach offers a computationally efficient alternative to costly fine‑tuning or generative augmentation, enabling robust VLA deployment in real‑world settings where camera configurations may vary."

By Yechan Park, HyunJin Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

XDG: Accelerated Visual Disambiguation

arXiv:2608.29733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual aliasing, also known as the doppelganger problem, remains a key challenge for structure-from-motion (SfM): visually similar but physically disti...

By Gonglin Chen, Ben Southall, Hanyuan Xiao, Wenbin Teng, Haolin Xiong, Tianwen Fu, Junyi Ouyang, Kshitij Singh Minhas, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar, Yajie Zhao