# Texture-GS: Disentangling the Geometry and Texture for 3D Gaussian Splatting Editing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10050 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10050/

## Key facts

- Cited by 47 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 24 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Mar 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 24 of 24)

- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Segment Anything](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02643/) (2023)
- [3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04079/) (2023)
- [Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.05989/) (2022)
- [Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08051/) (2022)
- [SuGaR: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Mesh Reconstruction and High-Quality Mesh Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12775/) (2023)
- [Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11918/) (2022)
- [Gaussian Grouping: Segment and Edit Anything in 3D Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00732/) (2023)
- [PhysGaussian: Physics-Integrated 3D Gaussians for Generative Dynamics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12198/) (2023)
- [Feature 3DGS: Supercharging 3D Gaussian Splatting to Enable Distilled Feature Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.03203/) (2023)
- [SC-GS: Sparse-Controlled Gaussian Splatting for Editable Dynamic Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.14937/) (2023)
- [GaussianEditor: Swift and Controllable 3D Editing with Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.14521/) (2023)
- [GaussianShader: 3D Gaussian Splatting with Shading Functions for Reflective Surfaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17977/) (2023)
- [GaussianEditor: Editing 3D Gaussians Delicately with Text Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16037/) (2023)
- [Omni3D: A Large Benchmark and Model for 3D Object Detection in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.10660/) (2022)
- [NeuMesh: Learning Disentangled Neural Mesh-based Implicit Field for Geometry and Texture Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.11911/) (2022)
- [NeuTex: Neural Texture Mapping for Volumetric Neural Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00762/) (2021)
- [UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14402/) (2022)
- [AUV-Net: Learning Aligned UV Maps for Texture Transfer and Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03105/) (2022)
- [Nuvo: Neural UV Mapping for Unruly 3D Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05283/) (2023)
- [Point'n Move: Interactive Scene Object Manipulation on Gaussian Splatting Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16737/) (2023)
- [Seal-3D: Interactive Pixel-Level Editing for Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.15131/) (2023)
- [Neural Parameterization for Dynamic Human Head Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.00210/) (2022)
- [General Neural Gauge Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.03462/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 47)

- [Recent Advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.11134/) (2024)
- [Textured Gaussians for Enhanced 3D Scene Appearance Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.18625/) (2024)
- [GeometryCrafter: Consistent Geometry Estimation for Open-world Videos with Diffusion Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.01016/) (2025)
- [Rethinking End-to-End 2D to 3D Scene Segmentation in Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.14029/) (2025)
- [GStex: Per-Primitive Texturing of 2D Gaussian Splatting for Decoupled Appearance and Geometry Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.12954/) (2024)
- [BillBoard Splatting (BBSplat): Learnable Textured Primitives for Novel View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.08508/) (2024)
- [A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splatting Applications: Segmentation, Editing, and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.09977/) (2025)
- [DecoupledGaussian: Object-Scene Decoupling for Physics-Based Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.05484/) (2025)
- [HDGS: Textured 2D Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.01823/) (2024)
- [Textured-GS: Gaussian Splatting with Spatially Defined Color and Opacity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09733/) (2024)
- [Neural Shell Texture Splatting: More Details and Fewer Primitives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.20200/) (2025)
- [A Survey on 3D Human Avatar Modeling -- From Reconstruction to Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.04253/) (2024)
- [SVGS: Enhancing Gaussian Splatting Using Primitives with Spatially Varying Colors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.18966/) (2024)
- [TexGS-VolVis: Expressive Scene Editing for Volume Visualization via Textured Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.13586/) (2025)
- [COS3D: Collaborative Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.20238/) (2025)
- [3D Gaussian Editing with A Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.07540/) (2024)
- [Generative Object Insertion in Gaussian Splatting with a Multi-View Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.16938/) (2024)
- [FruitNinja: 3D Object Interior Texture Generation with Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.12089/) (2024)
- [Multiview Geometric Regularization of Gaussian Splatting for Accurate Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13508/) (2025)
- [Content-Aware Texturing for Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.02621/) (2025)
- [Weather-Magician: Reconstruction and Rendering Framework for 4D Weather Synthesis In Real Time](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.19919/) (2025)
- [AG2aussian: Anchor-Graph Structured Gaussian Splatting for Instance-Level 3D Scene Understanding and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.01740/) (2025)
- [SVG-Head: Hybrid Surface-Volumetric Gaussians for High-Fidelity Head Reconstruction and Real-Time Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.09597/) (2025)
- [Nexels: Neurally-Textured Surfels for Real-Time Novel View Synthesis with Sparse Geometries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.13796/) (2025)
- [DiffSoup: Direct Differentiable Rasterization of Triangle Soup for Extreme Radiance Field Simplification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.27151/) (2026)
- [Neural Harmonic Textures for High-Quality Primitive Based Neural Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.01204/) (2026)
- [TextureSplat: Per-Primitive Texture Mapping for Reflective Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13348/) (2025)
- [EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.08980/) (2026)
- [EGGS: Exchangeable 2D/3D Gaussian Splatting for Geometry-Appearance Balanced Novel View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.02932/) (2025)
- [STRinGS: Selective Text Refinement in Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07230/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

3D Gaussian splatting, emerging as a groundbreaking approach, has drawn increasing attention for its capabilities of high-fidelity reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, it couples the appearance and geometry of the scene within the Gaussian attributes, which hinders the flexibility of editing operations, such as texture swapping. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach, namely Texture-GS, to disentangle the appearance from the geometry by representing it as a 2D texture mapped onto the 3D surface, thereby facilitating appearance editing. Technically, the disentanglement is achieved by our proposed texture mapping module, which consists of a UV mapping MLP to learn the UV coordinates for the 3D Gaussian centers, a local Taylor expansion of the MLP to efficiently approximate the UV coordinates for the ray-Gaussian intersections, and a learnable texture to capture the fine-grained appearance. Extensive experiments on the DTU dataset demonstrate that our method not only facilitates high-fidelity appearance editing but also achieves real-time rendering on consumer-level devices, e.g. a single RTX 2080 Ti GPU.