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Main Authors: Ren, Yuan, Wu, Guile, Li, Runhao, Yang, Zheyuan, Liu, Yibo, Chen, Xingxin, Cao, Tongtong, Liu, Bingbing
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15355
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author Ren, Yuan
Wu, Guile
Li, Runhao
Yang, Zheyuan
Liu, Yibo
Chen, Xingxin
Cao, Tongtong
Liu, Bingbing
author_facet Ren, Yuan
Wu, Guile
Li, Runhao
Yang, Zheyuan
Liu, Yibo
Chen, Xingxin
Cao, Tongtong
Liu, Bingbing
contents Urban scene reconstruction is crucial for real-world autonomous driving simulators. Although existing methods have achieved photorealistic reconstruction, they mostly focus on pinhole cameras and neglect fisheye cameras. In fact, how to effectively simulate fisheye cameras in driving scene remains an unsolved problem. In this work, we propose UniGaussian, a novel approach that learns a unified 3D Gaussian representation from multiple camera models for urban scene reconstruction in autonomous driving. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we propose a new differentiable rendering method that distorts 3D Gaussians using a series of affine transformations tailored to fisheye camera models. This addresses the compatibility issue of 3D Gaussian splatting with fisheye cameras, which is hindered by light ray distortion caused by lenses or mirrors. Besides, our method maintains real-time rendering while ensuring differentiability. Second, built on the differentiable rendering method, we design a new framework that learns a unified Gaussian representation from multiple camera models. By applying affine transformations to adapt different camera models and regularizing the shared Gaussians with supervision from different modalities, our framework learns a unified 3D Gaussian representation with input data from multiple sources and achieves holistic driving scene understanding. As a result, our approach models multiple sensors (pinhole and fisheye cameras) and modalities (depth, semantic, normal and LiDAR point clouds). Our experiments show that our method achieves superior rendering quality and fast rendering speed for driving scene simulation.
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spellingShingle UniGaussian: Driving Scene Reconstruction from Multiple Camera Models via Unified Gaussian Representations
Ren, Yuan
Wu, Guile
Li, Runhao
Yang, Zheyuan
Liu, Yibo
Chen, Xingxin
Cao, Tongtong
Liu, Bingbing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Urban scene reconstruction is crucial for real-world autonomous driving simulators. Although existing methods have achieved photorealistic reconstruction, they mostly focus on pinhole cameras and neglect fisheye cameras. In fact, how to effectively simulate fisheye cameras in driving scene remains an unsolved problem. In this work, we propose UniGaussian, a novel approach that learns a unified 3D Gaussian representation from multiple camera models for urban scene reconstruction in autonomous driving. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we propose a new differentiable rendering method that distorts 3D Gaussians using a series of affine transformations tailored to fisheye camera models. This addresses the compatibility issue of 3D Gaussian splatting with fisheye cameras, which is hindered by light ray distortion caused by lenses or mirrors. Besides, our method maintains real-time rendering while ensuring differentiability. Second, built on the differentiable rendering method, we design a new framework that learns a unified Gaussian representation from multiple camera models. By applying affine transformations to adapt different camera models and regularizing the shared Gaussians with supervision from different modalities, our framework learns a unified 3D Gaussian representation with input data from multiple sources and achieves holistic driving scene understanding. As a result, our approach models multiple sensors (pinhole and fisheye cameras) and modalities (depth, semantic, normal and LiDAR point clouds). Our experiments show that our method achieves superior rendering quality and fast rendering speed for driving scene simulation.
title UniGaussian: Driving Scene Reconstruction from Multiple Camera Models via Unified Gaussian Representations
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15355