ULSR-GS: Ultra Large-scale Surface Reconstruction Gaussian Splatting with Multi-View Geometric Consistency

Zhuoxiao Li1,2*   Shanliang Yao1,2*   Qizhong Gao1,2  
Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez3   Yong Yue1,2   Xiaohui Zhu1,2†  
1University of Liverpool     2Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University     3ARIES Research Centre, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija
Equal contribution     † Corresponding author

Abstract

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While Gaussian Splatting (GS) demonstrate efficient and high-quality scene rendering and surface extraction, they fall short in handling large-scale surface extraction. To overcome this, we present ULSR-GS, a framework dedicated to high-fidelity surface extraction in ultra-large-scale scenes, addressing the limitations of existing GS-based mesh extraction methods. Specifically, we propose a point-to-photo partitioning approach combined with a multi-view optimal view matching principle to select the best training images for each sub-region. Additionally, during training, ULSR-GS employs a densification strategy based on multi-view geometric consistency to enhance rendering and surface extraction details. Experimental results demonstrate that ULSR-GS outperforms other state-of-the-art GS-based works on large-scale benchmark datasets, significantly improving both rendering quality and surface extraction accuracy in complex urban environments.

Partition Example

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Merge Partition Results

Comparison With GS-based SOTA

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BibTeX

@misc{li2024ulsrgsultralargescalesurface,
      title={ULSR-GS: Ultra Large-scale Surface Reconstruction Gaussian Splatting with Multi-View Geometric Consistency}, 
      author={Zhuoxiao Li and Shanliang Yao and Qizhong Gao and Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez and Yong Yue and Xiaohui Zhu},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2412.01402},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01402}, 
}

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