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Poster

Subsurface Scattering for Gaussian Splatting

Jan-Niklas Dihlmann · Arjun Majumdar · Andreas Engelhardt · Raphael Braun · Hendrik PA Lensch

East Exhibit Hall A-C #1209
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Wed 11 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract:

3D reconstruction and relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced high-quality novel view synthesis at real-time speeds. While 3D Gaussians efficiently approximate an object's surface, they fail to capture the volumetric properties of subsurface scattering. We propose a framework for optimizing an object's shape together with the radiance transfer field given multi-view OLAT (one light at a time) data. Our method decomposes the scene into an explicit surface represented as 3D Gaussians, with a spatially varying BRDF, and an implicit volumetric representation of the scattering component. A learned incident light field accounts for shadowing. We optimize all parameters jointly via ray-traced differentiable rendering. Our approach enables material editing, relighting, and novel view synthesis at interactive rates. We show successful application on synthetic data and contribute a newly acquired multi-view multi-light dataset of objects in a light-stage setup. Compared to previous work we achieve comparable or better results at a fraction of optimization and rendering time while enabling detailed control over material attributes.

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