UAVTwin: Neural Digital Twins for UAVs using Gaussian Splatting

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Autores principales: Choi, Jaehoon, Jung, Dongki, Lee, Yonghan, Eum, Sungmin, Manocha, Dinesh, Kwon, Heesung
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author Choi, Jaehoon
Jung, Dongki
Lee, Yonghan
Eum, Sungmin
Manocha, Dinesh
Kwon, Heesung
author_facet Choi, Jaehoon
Jung, Dongki
Lee, Yonghan
Eum, Sungmin
Manocha, Dinesh
Kwon, Heesung
contents We present UAVTwin, a method for creating digital twins from real-world environments and facilitating data augmentation for training downstream models embedded in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, our approach focuses on synthesizing foreground components, such as various human instances in motion within complex scene backgrounds, from UAV perspectives. This is achieved by integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for reconstructing backgrounds along with controllable synthetic human models that display diverse appearances and actions in multiple poses. To the best of our knowledge, UAVTwin is the first approach for UAV-based perception that is capable of generating high-fidelity digital twins based on 3DGS. The proposed work significantly enhances downstream models through data augmentation for real-world environments with multiple dynamic objects and significant appearance variations-both of which typically introduce artifacts in 3DGS-based modeling. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel appearance modeling strategy and a mask refinement module to enhance the training of 3D Gaussian Splatting. We demonstrate the high quality of neural rendering by achieving a 1.23 dB improvement in PSNR compared to recent methods. Furthermore, we validate the effectiveness of data augmentation by showing a 2.5% to 13.7% improvement in mAP for the human detection task.
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spellingShingle UAVTwin: Neural Digital Twins for UAVs using Gaussian Splatting
Choi, Jaehoon
Jung, Dongki
Lee, Yonghan
Eum, Sungmin
Manocha, Dinesh
Kwon, Heesung
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We present UAVTwin, a method for creating digital twins from real-world environments and facilitating data augmentation for training downstream models embedded in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, our approach focuses on synthesizing foreground components, such as various human instances in motion within complex scene backgrounds, from UAV perspectives. This is achieved by integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for reconstructing backgrounds along with controllable synthetic human models that display diverse appearances and actions in multiple poses. To the best of our knowledge, UAVTwin is the first approach for UAV-based perception that is capable of generating high-fidelity digital twins based on 3DGS. The proposed work significantly enhances downstream models through data augmentation for real-world environments with multiple dynamic objects and significant appearance variations-both of which typically introduce artifacts in 3DGS-based modeling. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel appearance modeling strategy and a mask refinement module to enhance the training of 3D Gaussian Splatting. We demonstrate the high quality of neural rendering by achieving a 1.23 dB improvement in PSNR compared to recent methods. Furthermore, we validate the effectiveness of data augmentation by showing a 2.5% to 13.7% improvement in mAP for the human detection task.
title UAVTwin: Neural Digital Twins for UAVs using Gaussian Splatting
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02158