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FactorSplat enhances medical volume rendering with appearance control

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Researchers have introduced FactorSplat, a novel approach to medical volume rendering that enhances appearance control. Unlike previous methods that bake a single transfer function into rendering proxies, FactorSplat allows for region-specific intensity-to-RGBA curves to be applied at inference time. This method utilizes a shared functional encoder and low-rank factors to learn residual appearance, while geometry and directional appearance are shared across different presets. FactorSplat demonstrates improved performance over existing methods on CT and MR scans, showing significant gains in PSNR and reduced error for changed regions across various editing scenarios. AI

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FactorSplat enhances medical volume rendering with appearance control

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhongpai Gao, Benjamin Planche, Meng Zheng, Anwesa Choudhuri, Terrence Chen, Ziyan Wu ·

    FactorSplat: Appearance-Controllable Gaussian Proxies for Medical Volume Rendering

    arXiv:2610.02382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transfer functions (TFs) control color and visibility in medical volume rendering, but image-trained Gaussian proxies typically bake one transfer function into their appearance. We present FactorSplat, a per-scene N-dimensional Gaus…

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