Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis

Zhan Li, Zhang Chen, Zhong Li, Yi Xu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 8508-8520

Novel view synthesis of dynamic scenes has been an intriguing yet challenging problem. Despite recent advancements simultaneously achieving high-resolution photorealistic results real-time rendering and compact storage remains a formidable task. To address these challenges we propose Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting as a novel dynamic scene representation composed of three pivotal components. First we formulate expressive Spacetime Gaussians by enhancing 3D Gaussians with temporal opacity and parametric motion/rotation. This enables Spacetime Gaussians to capture static dynamic as well as transient content within a scene. Second we introduce splatted feature rendering which replaces spherical harmonics with neural features. These features facilitate the modeling of view- and time-dependent appearance while maintaining small size. Third we leverage the guidance of training error and coarse depth to sample new Gaussians in areas that are challenging to converge with existing pipelines. Experiments on several established real-world datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality and speed while retaining compact storage. At 8K resolution our lite-version model can render at 60 FPS on an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU.