Free-SurGS: SfM-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting for Surgical Scene Reconstruction

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Main Authors: Guo, Jiaxin, Wang, Jiangliu, Kang, Di, Dong, Wenzhen, Wang, Wenting, Liu, Yun-hui
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author Guo, Jiaxin
Wang, Jiangliu
Kang, Di
Dong, Wenzhen
Wang, Wenting
Liu, Yun-hui
author_facet Guo, Jiaxin
Wang, Jiangliu
Kang, Di
Dong, Wenzhen
Wang, Wenting
Liu, Yun-hui
contents Real-time 3D reconstruction of surgical scenes plays a vital role in computer-assisted surgery, holding a promise to enhance surgeons' visibility. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown great potential for real-time novel view synthesis of general scenes, which relies on accurate poses and point clouds generated by Structure-from-Motion (SfM) for initialization. However, 3DGS with SfM fails to recover accurate camera poses and geometry in surgical scenes due to the challenges of minimal textures and photometric inconsistencies. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose the first SfM-free 3DGS-based method for surgical scene reconstruction by jointly optimizing the camera poses and scene representation. Based on the video continuity, the key of our method is to exploit the immediate optical flow priors to guide the projection flow derived from 3D Gaussians. Unlike most previous methods relying on photometric loss only, we formulate the pose estimation problem as minimizing the flow loss between the projection flow and optical flow. A consistency check is further introduced to filter the flow outliers by detecting the rigid and reliable points that satisfy the epipolar geometry. During 3D Gaussian optimization, we randomly sample frames to optimize the scene representations to grow the 3D Gaussian progressively. Experiments on the SCARED dataset demonstrate our superior performance over existing methods in novel view synthesis and pose estimation with high efficiency. Code is available at https://github.com/wrld/Free-SurGS.
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spellingShingle Free-SurGS: SfM-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting for Surgical Scene Reconstruction
Guo, Jiaxin
Wang, Jiangliu
Kang, Di
Dong, Wenzhen
Wang, Wenting
Liu, Yun-hui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Real-time 3D reconstruction of surgical scenes plays a vital role in computer-assisted surgery, holding a promise to enhance surgeons' visibility. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown great potential for real-time novel view synthesis of general scenes, which relies on accurate poses and point clouds generated by Structure-from-Motion (SfM) for initialization. However, 3DGS with SfM fails to recover accurate camera poses and geometry in surgical scenes due to the challenges of minimal textures and photometric inconsistencies. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose the first SfM-free 3DGS-based method for surgical scene reconstruction by jointly optimizing the camera poses and scene representation. Based on the video continuity, the key of our method is to exploit the immediate optical flow priors to guide the projection flow derived from 3D Gaussians. Unlike most previous methods relying on photometric loss only, we formulate the pose estimation problem as minimizing the flow loss between the projection flow and optical flow. A consistency check is further introduced to filter the flow outliers by detecting the rigid and reliable points that satisfy the epipolar geometry. During 3D Gaussian optimization, we randomly sample frames to optimize the scene representations to grow the 3D Gaussian progressively. Experiments on the SCARED dataset demonstrate our superior performance over existing methods in novel view synthesis and pose estimation with high efficiency. Code is available at https://github.com/wrld/Free-SurGS.
title Free-SurGS: SfM-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting for Surgical Scene Reconstruction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02918