What Builds the Scene? Luminance Dominates Geometry Formation in 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2610.00749 · cs.CV, cs.GR · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.GR

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 28 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Gaussian Splatting — 20× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• 3D Gaussian Splatting — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 12× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 5× in this paper
• Quantization — 4× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Wavelet Transform — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Instant Colorization of Gaussian Splats
• Structured Image-based Coding for Efficient Gaussian Splatting Compression
• HiGS: A Hierarchical Rendering Architecture for Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting
• PDF-GS: Progressive Distractor Filtering for Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting
• When 3D Gaussian Splatting Recovers Real Surfaces
• High Dynamic Range 3D Gaussian Splatting via Luminance-Chromaticity Decomposition
• Thinking Like Van Gogh: Structure-Aware Style Transfer via Flow-Guided 3D Gaussian Splatting

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