PG-SAG: Parallel Gaussian Splatting for Fine-Grained Large-Scale Urban Buildings Reconstruction via Semantic-Aware Grouping

TL;DR

This paper introduces PG-SAG, a parallel Gaussian splatting method that leverages semantic cues for fine-grained large-scale urban building reconstruction, improving efficiency and accuracy without downsampling.

Contribution

The novel PG-SAG method fully exploits semantic information for partitioning and optimization, enabling detailed large-scale urban building reconstruction with parallel processing.

Findings

Superior performance on urban datasets compared to state-of-the-art methods

Effective use of semantic cues for partitioning and optimization

Reduced memory and time costs in large-scale scene reconstruction

Abstract

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a transformative method in the field of real-time novel synthesis. Based on 3DGS, recent advancements cope with large-scale scenes via spatial-based partition strategy to reduce video memory and optimization time costs. In this work, we introduce a parallel Gaussian splatting method, termed PG-SAG, which fully exploits semantic cues for both partitioning and Gaussian kernel optimization, enabling fine-grained building surface reconstruction of large-scale urban areas without downsampling the original image resolution. First, the Cross-modal model - Language Segment Anything is leveraged to segment building masks. Then, the segmented building regions is grouped into sub-regions according to the visibility check across registered images. The Gaussian kernels for these sub-regions are optimized in parallel with masked pixels. In addition, the normal loss is re-formulated for the detected edges of masks to alleviate the ambiguities in normal vectors on edges. Finally, to improve the optimization of 3D Gaussians, we introduce a gradient-constrained balance-load loss that accounts for the complexity of the corresponding scenes, effectively minimizing the thread waiting time in the pixel-parallel rendering stage as well as the reconstruction lost. Extensive experiments are tested on various urban datasets, the results demonstrated the superior performance of our PG-SAG on building surface reconstruction, compared to several state-of-the-art 3DGS-based methods. Project Web:https://github.com/TFWang-9527/PG-SAG.