# HDGS: Textured 2D Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Rendering

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01823 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.01823/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 31 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 2 Dec 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31)

- [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)
- [Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.09661/) (2020)
- [Fourier Features Let Networks Learn High Frequency Functions in Low Dimensional Domains](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.10739/) (2020)
- [Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12077/) (2021)
- [Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13415/) (2021)
- [TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09517/) (2022)
- [2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.17888/) (2024)
- [Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11215/) (2021)
- [Neural Sparse Voxel Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.11571/) (2020)
- [Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06706/) (2023)
- [Mip-Splatting: Alias-free 3D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16493/) (2023)
- [Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.03092/) (2023)
- [LightGaussian: Unbounded 3D Gaussian Compression with 15x Reduction and 200+ FPS](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17245/) (2023)
- [PGSR: Planar-based Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and High-Fidelity Surface Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.06521/) (2024)
- [Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.01954/) (2021)
- [GaussianShader: 3D Gaussian Splatting with Shading Functions for Reflective Surfaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17977/) (2023)
- [Tri-MipRF: Tri-Mip Representation for Efficient Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.11335/) (2023)
- [NeuMesh: Learning Disentangled Neural Mesh-based Implicit Field for Geometry and Texture Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.11911/) (2022)
- [Multi-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting for Anti-Aliased Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17089/) (2023)
- [Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.08581/) (2023)
- [StopThePop: Sorted Gaussian Splatting for View-Consistent Real-time Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.00525/) (2024)
- [PUP 3D-GS: Principled Uncertainty Pruning for 3D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.10219/) (2024)
- [GIR: 3D Gaussian Inverse Rendering for Relightable Scene Factorization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05133/) (2023)
- [FisherRF: Active View Selection and Uncertainty Quantification for Radiance Fields using Fisher Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17874/) (2023)
- [Texture-GS: Disentangling the Geometry and Texture for 3D Gaussian Splatting Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10050/) (2024)
- [SA-GS: Scale-Adaptive Gaussian Splatting for Training-Free Anti-Aliasing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.19615/) (2024)
- [GStex: Per-Primitive Texturing of 2D Gaussian Splatting for Decoupled Appearance and Geometry Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.12954/) (2024)
- [Sort-free Gaussian Splatting via Weighted Sum Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.18931/) (2024)
- [Rip-NeRF: Anti-aliasing Radiance Fields with Ripmap-Encoded Platonic Solids](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.02386/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [TexGS-VolVis: Expressive Scene Editing for Volume Visualization via Textured Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.13586/) (2025)
- [Digital Twin Generation from Visual Data: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13159/) (2025)
- [TextureSplat: Per-Primitive Texture Mapping for Reflective Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13348/) (2025)
- [STRinGS: Selective Text Refinement in Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07230/) (2025)
- [Fast 2DGS: Efficient Image Representation with Deep Gaussian Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.12774/) (2025)
- [Depth Peeling for High-Fidelity Gaussian-Enhanced Surfel Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.25345/) (2026)
- [Neural Texture Splatting: Expressive 3D Gaussian Splatting for View Synthesis, Geometry, and Dynamic Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18873/) (2025)
- [FACT-GS: Frequency-Aligned Complexity-Aware Texture Reparameterization for 2D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.23292/) (2025)
- [Frequency-Decomposed Avatar Representation for Varying Camera Distances](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.03593/) (2025)
- [GTAvatar: Bridging Gaussian Splatting and Texture Mapping for Relightable and Editable Gaussian Avatars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.09162/) (2025)
- [A2TG: Adaptive Anisotropic Textured Gaussians for Efficient 3D Scene Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.09243/) (2026)
- [NBAvatar: Neural Billboards Avatars with Realistic Hand-Face Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.12063/) (2026)
- [Hybrid Latents: Geometry-Appearance-Aware Surfel Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.14928/) (2026)
- [Mesh-Learner: Texturing Mesh with Spherical Harmonics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.19938/) (2025)
- [Less Gaussians, Texture More: 4K Feed-Forward Textured Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.25745/) (2026)
- [PointGT: Simultaneous Geometry and Texture Editing for Point-Based Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.03341/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advancements in neural rendering, particularly 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS), have shown promising results for jointly reconstructing fine appearance and geometry by leveraging 2D Gaussian surfels. However, current methods face significant challenges when rendering at arbitrary viewpoints, such as anti-aliasing for down-sampled rendering, and texture detail preservation for high-resolution rendering. We proposed a novel method to align the 2D surfels with texture maps and augment it with per-ray depth sorting and fisher-based pruning for rendering consistency and efficiency. With correct order, per-surfel texture maps significantly improve the capabilities to capture fine details. Additionally, to render high-fidelity details in varying viewpoints, we designed a frustum-based sampling method to mitigate the aliasing artifacts. Experimental results on benchmarks and our custom texture-rich dataset demonstrate that our method surpasses existing techniques, particularly in detail preservation and anti-aliasing.