My-exp-Gaussian

It should be noted that this is not an implementation of a paper. It was an early attempt to model specular highlights with 3D-GS. The official code together with the final paper will be released in another repo. Please stay tuned.

Update

• 24/3/26 The final code has been released in Specular-Gaussians.
• 24/1/26 Hi, there! Thanks for the stars for all the people! Everyone's enthusiasm has made me realize that this is a meaningful work. It is with everyone's encouragement that I have completed a paper based on this repository (with a lot of improvements), which will help everyone understand why we can achieve high-quality specular highlight modeling with 3D-GS. Please stay tuned.
• I removed the normal. The normal would improve metrics, but its quality is so poor that it can't truly be called a normal. I have placed the model that includes the normal in the normal branch. After removing the normal, both training speed and rendering FPS will improve a lot.

Run

Environment

git clone https://github.com/ingra14m/My-exp-Gaussian --recursive
cd My-exp-Gaussian

conda create -n gaussian_env python=3.7
conda activate gaussian_env

# install pytorch
pip install torch==1.13.1+cu116 torchvision==0.14.1+cu116 torchaudio==0.13.1 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116

# install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Train

python train.py -s path/to/your/nerf/dataset -m output/exp-name --eval

Render & Evaluation

python render.py -m output/exp-name
python metrics.py -m output/exp-name

• To achieve higher metrics, you need to incorporate the following residual loss. However, this will reduce the quality of anisotropic specular rendering.

if iteration > 3000:
  residual_color = render(viewpoint_cam, gaussians, pipe, background, mlp_color, hybrid=False)["render"]
  reflect_loss = l1_loss(gt_image - image, residual_color)
  loss = loss + reflect_loss

Results

Quantitative Results on NeRF Synthetic Dataset

I conducted an evaluation on the NeRF dataset, comparing it with the current SOTA methods. Unlike many methods based on 3D Gaussians, we bravely compared Tri-MipRF and NeuRBF, and achieved better rendering metrics in some scenes. The resolution in our experiment is 800x800, with a black background.

Qualitative Results on Nex Dataset

We demonstrated on the Nex dataset that our method can model anisotropic specular better than 3D-GS. Consistent with Nex, we downsampled x2 the dataset and measured the metrics.

Acknowledgment

I sincerely thank the authors of the following works, as their works have been referenced in my released codes: nrff, NeuRBF, Tri-MipRF, GaussianShader, Scaffold-GS, Nex, 3D-GS.

BibTex

Thanks to the authors of 3D Gaussians for their excellent code, please consider cite this repository:

@Article{kerbl3Dgaussians,
      author       = {Kerbl, Bernhard and Kopanas, Georgios and Leimk{\"u}hler, Thomas and Drettakis, George},
      title        = {3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering},
      journal      = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      number       = {4},
      volume       = {42},
      month        = {July},
      year         = {2023},
      url          = {https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/}
}