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SpotlessSplats: Ignoring Distractors in 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv 2406.20055 ↗First posted 28 Jun 2024cs.CV cs.LGcited by 61

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Abstract (arXiv)

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a promising technique for 3D reconstruction, offering efficient training and rendering speeds, making it suitable for real-time applications.However, current methods require highly controlled environments (no moving people or wind-blown elements, and consistent lighting) to meet the inter-view consistency assumption of 3DGS. This makes reconstruction of real-world captures problematic. We present SpotLessSplats, an approach that leverages pre-trained and general-purpose features coupled with robust optimization to effectively ignore transient distractors. Our method achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality both visually and quantitatively, on casual captures. Additional results available at: https://spotlesssplats.github.io

Key facts. Cited by 61 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 46 of its 63 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Jun 2024.

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  1. 2024WildGaussians: 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wildcited by 152
  2. 2024DreamDrive: Generative 4D Scene Modeling from Street View Imagescited by 35
  3. 2024DAS3R: Dynamics-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Static Scene Reconstructioncited by 26
  4. 2024RoMo: Robust Motion Segmentation Improves Structure from Motioncited by 20
  5. 2024DeRainGS: Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Reconstruction in Rainy Environmentscited by 19
  6. 2025RealX3D: A Physically-Degraded 3D Benchmark for Multi-view Visual Restoration and Reconstructioncited by 19
  7. 2025Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagerycited by 17
  8. 2026Faster-GS: Analyzing and Improving Gaussian Splatting Optimizationcited by 17
  9. 2024HybridGS: Decoupling Transients and Statics with 2D and 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 16
  10. 2025DeGauss: Dynamic-Static Decomposition with Gaussian Splatting for Distractor-free 3D Reconstructioncited by 16
  11. 2024DeSplat: Decomposed Gaussian Splatting for Distractor-Free Renderingcited by 15
  12. 2024T-3DGS: Removing Transient Objects for 3D Scene Reconstructioncited by 13
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  1. 2025RobustSplat: Decoupling Densification and Dynamics for Transient-Free 3DGScited by 11
  2. 2024Distractor-free Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 8
  3. 2025Robust and Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting for Urban Scene Reconstructioncited by 8
  4. 2026Unifying Color and Lightness Correction with View-Adaptive Curve Adjustment for Robust 3D Novel View Synthesiscited by 8
  5. 2024NexusSplats: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wildcited by 7
  6. 2025Seg-Wild: Interactive Segmentation based on 3D Gaussian Splatting for Unconstrained Image Collectionscited by 7
  7. 2025ForestSplats: Deformable transient field for Gaussian Splatting in the Wildcited by 6
  8. 2025Robust Neural Rendering in the Wild with Asymmetric Dual 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 6
  9. 2025WorldWarp: Propagating 3D Geometry with Asynchronous Video Diffusioncited by 6
  10. 2024SimVS: Simulating World Inconsistencies for Robust View Synthesiscited by 5
  11. 2025SpeeDe3DGS: Speedy Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting with Temporal Pruning and Motion Groupingcited by 5
  12. 2025MGSR: 2D/3D Mutual-boosted Gaussian Splatting for High-fidelity Surface Reconstruction under Various Light Conditionscited by 4
  13. 2025EgoSplat: Open-Vocabulary Egocentric Scene Understanding with Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 4
  14. 2026WildRayZer: Self-supervised Large View Synthesis in Dynamic Environmentscited by 4
  15. 2026You Only Gaussian Once: Controllable 3D Gaussian Splatting for Ultra-Densely Sampled Scenescited by 4
  16. 2025MVGSR: Multi-View Consistency Gaussian Splatting for Robust Surface Reconstructioncited by 3
  17. 2025SparseGS-W: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild with Generative Priorscited by 3
  18. 2025Fillerbuster: Unified Generative Scene Completion Model for Casual Capturescited by 2
  19. 2025SVR-GS: Spatially Variant Regularization for Probabilistic Masks in 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 2
  20. 2025ROSGS: Relightable Outdoor Scenes With Gaussian Splattingcited by 2
  21. 2026NimbusGS: Unified 3D Scene Reconstruction under Hybrid Weathercited by 2
  22. 2026UMI3D: Robust 3D Generation on Unconstrained Multi-Image Inputs via Simultaneous Focus Cross-Attention Routingcited by 2
  23. 2025DeclutterNeRF: Generative-Free 3D Scene Recovery for Occlusion Removalcited by 1
  24. 2025Visibility-Uncertainty-guided 3D Gaussian Inpainting via Scene Conceptional Learningcited by 1
  25. 2025Veta-GS: View-dependent deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting for thermal infrared Novel-view Synthesiscited by 1
  26. 2025Taking Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting into the Wildcited by 1
  27. 2025Hestia: Voxel-Face-Aware Hierarchical Next-Best-View Acquisition for Efficient 3D Reconstructioncited by 1
  28. 2025OCSplats: Observation Completeness Quantification and Label Noise Separation in 3DGScited by 1
  29. 2025From Volume Rendering to 3D Gaussian Splatting: Theory and Applicationscited by 1
  30. 2026PDF-GS: Progressive Distractor Filtering for Robust 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 1
  31. 2026Sparse-to-Complete: From Sparse Image Captures to Complete 3D Scenescited by 1
  32. 2026WilLaGS: Latent-Conditional 3D Appearance Fields for Robust Gaussian Splatting In-the-Wildcited by 1
  33. 2025SAGS: Self-Adaptive Alias-Free Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Surgical Endoscopic Reconstructioncited by 0
  34. 2025Rad-GS: Radar-Vision Integration for 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Outdoor Environmentscited by 0
  35. 2026WildGHand: Learning Anti-Perturbation Gaussian Hand Avatars from Monocular In-the-Wild Videoscited by 0
  36. 2026HeroGS: Hierarchical Guidance for Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting under Sparse Viewscited by 0
  37. 2026Sparse View Distractor-Free Gaussian Splattingcited by 0
  38. 20263DGS-HPC: Distractor-free 3D Gaussian Splatting with Hybrid Patch-wise Classificationcited by 0

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