TruncGradGS: Improved 3D Gaussian Splatting via Truncated Gradient Updates
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arXiv:2609.03534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting has become a de facto scene representation for novel view synthesis, yet robustly learning 3D Gaussian primitives from visual input remains challenging. Standard optimization relies on gradient-based updates, but a common issue is the gradient vanishing phenomenon: a pixel far from a Gaussian primitive often has diminishing gradient magnitudes to influence primitive attributes, resulting in suboptimal scene reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a method to address gradient vanishing with a piecewise truncated gradient
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.03534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting has become a de facto scene representation for novel view synthesis, yet robustly learning 3D Gaussian primitives from visual input remains challenging.
- Standard optimization relies on gradient-based updates, but a common issue is the gradient vanishing phenomenon: a pixel far from a Gaussian primitive often has diminishing gradient magnitudes to influence primitive attributes, resulting in suboptimal scene reconstruction.
- In this paper, we propose a method to address gradient vanishing with a piecewise truncated gradient
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