PolGS: Polarimetric Gaussian Splatting for Fast Reflective Surface Reconstruction

ICCV 2025

1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 2Xiong'an Aerospace Information Research Institute 3State Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University 4National Engineering Research Center of Visual Technology, School of Computer Science, Peking University

Abstract

Efficient shape reconstruction for surfaces with complex reflectance properties is crucial for real-time virtual reality. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based methods offer fast novel view rendering by leveraging their explicit surface representation, their reconstruction quality lags behind that of implicit neural representations, particularly in the case of recovering surfaces with complex reflective reflectance. To address these problems, we propose PolGS, a Polarimetric Gaussian Splatting model allowing fast reflective surface reconstruction in 10 minutes. By integrating polarimetric constraints into the 3DGS framework, PolGS effectively separates specular and diffuse components, enhancing reconstruction quality for challenging reflective materials. Experimental results on the synthetic and real-world dataset validate the effectiveness of our method.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{han2025polgs,
  title={PolGS: Polarimetric Gaussian Splatting for Fast Reflective Surface Reconstruction},
  author={Han, Yufei and Tie, Bowen and Guo, Heng and Lyu, Youwei and Li, Si and Shi, Boxin and Jia, Yunpeng and Ma, Zhanyu},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = ICCV,
}