RefracGS: Novel View Synthesis Through Refractive Water Surfaces with 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing

RefracGS is a novel framework for generating novel views through refractive water surfaces. It jointly reconstructs the water surface using a neural height field and the underlying scene with a 3D Gaussian field, employing refraction‑aware Gaussian ray tracing based on Snell’s law. The method achieves high‑fidelity view synthesis, outperforms prior refractive approaches, and offers 15× faster training with real‑time rendering at 200 FPS.

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