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RouteBridge framework enhances NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting distillation

Researchers have developed RouteBridge, a novel bidirectional framework designed to improve the distillation process between Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). This system adaptively selects the teaching direction for each ray, combining photometric residuals with geometric evidence to route supervision from NeRF to 3DGS, or vice versa, or to abstain when necessary. The framework achieves significant improvements, with NeRF and 3DGS exports reaching 28.56 and 28.77 dB respectively on the mip-NeRF 360 dataset, outperforming existing methods. AI

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RouteBridge framework enhances NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting distillation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · YuanHang Wang, Xin Cao ·

    RouteBridge: Reliability-Routed Bidirectional Distillation Between Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting

    arXiv:2609.09606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) encode a scene with complementary inductive biases, but existing cross-representation distillation typically fixes one representation as teacher for the entire scene. A…