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Time of the Flight of the Gaussians: Fast and Accurate Dynamic Time-of-Flight Radiance Fields

Runfeng Li · Mikhail Okunev · Zixuan Guo · Anh H Duong · Christian Richardt · Matthew O’Toole · James Tompkin


Abstract: We present a method to reconstruct dynamic scenes from monocular continuous-wave time-of-flight cameras using raw sensor samples that is as accurate as past methods and is 100× faster. Quickly achieving high-fidelity dynamic 3D reconstruction from a single viewpoint is a significant challenge in computer vision. Recent 3D Gaussian splatting methods often depend on multi-view data to produce satisfactory results and are brittle in their optimizations otherwise.In time-of-flight radiance field reconstruction, the property of interest---depth---is not directly optimized, causing additional challenges.We describe how these problems have a large and underappreciated impact upon the optimization when using a fast primitive-based scene representation like 3D Gaussians.Then, we incorporate two heuristics into our optimization to improve the accuracy of scene geometry for under-constrained time-of-flight Gaussians.Experimental results show that our approach produces accurate reconstructions under constrained sensing conditions, including for fast motions like swinging baseball bats.

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