RigidDriveGS: Object-Centric Vehicle Reconstruction from Fixed Multi-Camera Drive-Through Captures

Abstract

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of vehicle exteriors improves buyer confidence in online automotive marketplaces, but fixed multi-camera drive-through capture departs from standard Structure-from-Motion (SfM): static cameras observe a moving vehicle amid clutter, rotating wheels, fisheye distortion, and specular reflections. We present RigidDriveGS, an object-centric pipeline combining motion-gated tracking, bifurcated masks that exclude wheels for SfM while optionally retaining them for rendering, mask-guided dense correspondences on raw distorted images, rig-constrained global SfM, and clean object-centric neural rendering with trimap-aware opacity or density supervision and native-alpha white compositing. We evaluate 25 vehicles from 10 dealership installations and six phone-recorded vehicles, each captured from 14 independent handheld positions. Under a staggered per-camera temporal-block holdout, 3DGUT+MCMC achieves 30.42 dB PSNR, 0.90 SSIM, and 0.20 LPIPS, improving PSNR by 7.78 dB over undistorted 3D-GS; independently recorded reference LiDAR scans yield full/body Chamfer-L1 of 0.026/0.013 m and F1@5 cm of 0.703/0.885. These results support clutter-free, object-centric novel-view synthesis without controlled studio infrastructure.

arXiv comment8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted at IEEE/CVF WACV 2027