SpectralGaussians

Semantic, spectral 3D Gaussian splatting for multi-spectral scene representation, visualization and analysis

Journal Article (2025)
Author(s)

Saptarshi Neil Sinha (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD)

Holger Graf (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD)

Michael Weinmann (TU Delft - Computer Graphics and Visualisation)

Research Group
Computer Graphics and Visualisation
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.06.008
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
Computer Graphics and Visualisation
Volume number
227
Pages (from-to)
789-803
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Abstract

We propose a novel cross-spectral rendering framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that generates realistic and semantically meaningful splats from registered multi-view spectrum and segmentation maps. This extension enhances the representation of scenes with multiple spectra, providing insights into the underlying materials and segmentation. We introduce an improved physically-based rendering approach for Gaussian splats, estimating reflectance and lights per spectra, thereby enhancing accuracy and realism. In a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation, we demonstrate the superior performance of our approach with respect to other recent learning-based spectral scene representation approaches (i.e., XNeRF and SpectralNeRF) as well as other non-spectral state-of-the-art learning-based approaches. Our work also demonstrates the potential of spectral scene understanding for precise scene editing techniques like style transfer, inpainting, and removal. Thereby, our contributions address challenges in multi-spectral scene representation, rendering, and editing, offering new possibilities for diverse applications.