Planar Gaussian Splatting with Bilinear Spatial Transformer for Wireless Radiance Field Reconstruction

TL;DR

This paper introduces BiSplat-WRF, a novel planar Gaussian splatting framework with a bilinear spatial transformer for improved wireless radiance field reconstruction, capturing electromagnetic interactions more accurately.

Contribution

It presents a physically interpretable, globally aware Gaussian splatting method that incorporates electromagnetic coupling and mutual scattering for better wireless environment modeling.

Findings

BiSplat-WRF outperforms NeRF-based and prior GS-based methods in SSIM for spectrum synthesis.

The bilinear spatial transformer effectively captures long-range electromagnetic dependencies.

The larger BiSplat-WRF+ variant achieves higher SSIM at increased computational cost.

Abstract

Wireless radiance field (WRF) reconstruction aims to learn a continuous, queryable representation of radio frequency characteristics over 3D space and direction, from which specific quantities, such as the spatial power spectrum (SPS) at a receiver given a transmitter position, can be predicted. While Gaussian splatting (GS)-based method has surpassed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based method for this task, existing adaptations largely transplant vision pipelines, limiting physical interpretability and accuracy. We introduce BiSplat-WRF, a planar GS framework that retains the expressiveness of 3D GS while removing unnecessary projections and incorporating global EM coupling and mutual scattering among primitives. Each primitive is a 2D planar Gaussian with 3D coordinates, rendered directly on the angular domain of the SPS. A bilinear spatial transformer (BST) aggregates inter-primitive relations on an angular grid and, via attention, captures long-range electromagnetic dependencies, thereby enforcing globally aware EM interactions that reflect the complex physics of the wireless environment. On spatial spectrum synthesis task, BiSplat-WRF surpasses NeRF-based and prior GS-based baselines with respect to the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM); comprehensive ablation studies validate the contribution of BST. We also provide a larger BiSplat-WRF+ variant that further increases SSIM at a higher computation cost, serving as a strong reference for future studies.