Fast and Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting with Polarized Opacity Prior

Zi-Ming Wang, Kai-Wen Duan, Kowei Huang +2

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality at real-time speeds but suffers from "model bloat" - a large number of redundant, low-opacity Gaussians tha…