v0.10.1

What's changed

• 2DGS
  • Mesh extraction: utils/gs2d_mesh_extraction.py
  • Combined with Appearance Model: internal/models/appearance_gs2d.py
• Image caching
  • uint8 data type: --data.image_uint8 true
  • Async caching: --data.async_caching true
• PolyCam raw data conversion
• Colmap Data Parser: allow specifying validation image set by an image list file

  ... \
    --data.parser Colmap \
    --data.parser.eval_image_select_mode list \
    --data.parser.eval_list test_set.txt \
    ...

• Notebooks for DJI drones
  • Loading camera poses from the EXIF: notebooks/dji2pose.ipynb
  • SfM: notebooks/prior_pose_guided_sfm.ipynb
• Foreground first densify (for partitions of large scale scenes only): internal/density_controllers/foreground_first_density_controller.py, --ff_densify
• Scale regularization: internal/metrics/scale_regularization_metrics.py
• Fuse MipSplatting's 3D smoothing filter to the Gaussian parameters: utils/fuse_mip_filter.py
• gsplat v1 (modified version only)
  • All of the existing renderers can work on both the v0 and modified v1
  • New v1 only renderer: internal/renderers/gsplat_v1_renderer.py

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.10.1

v0.10.0

What's Changed

• Reimplemented the large scale scene reconstruction
• Added a Partition LoD renderer: internal/renderers/partition_lod_renderer.py
• Added a StopThePop renderer: internal/renderers/stp_renderer.py

New Contributors

• @hardikdava made their first contribution in #46
• @tayden made their first contribution in #62

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.10.0

v0.9.0

What's Changed

• SpotLessSplats
• Depth Regularization with Depth Anything V2
• Fixed scene partitioning related codes
• Speedup MatrixCity point cloud generation

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0

v0.8.0

What's Changed

• New Multiple GPUs training strategy
• Refactor Gaussian Model

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

v0.7.0

What's Changed

• Refactor dataset configurations: dataset type and its params now are specified via --data.parser
• Add PCA colormap to web viewer
• Save validation/test metrics to a csv file
• Add round_half_up mode to colmap dataparser
• Add feature distillation

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.7.0

v0.6.2

What's Changed

• Clamp N in MCMC's compute_relocation
• Fix wrong initial max static resolution value in training viewer
• Upgrade viser to 0.2.3

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

v0.6.1

What's Changed

• Speedup video rendering
• Update 2DGS to follow hbb1/2d-gaussian-splatting@b8c9128 and hbb1/2d-gaussian-splatting@c6e0b75

v0.6.0

What's Changed

• Add 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo
• Decouple loss calculation and density control strategy
• Add an option to change LPIPS network type. Default is alex.
• Web Viewer
  • Avoid rendering high resolution image in training viewer by default
  • Add a 'constant speed' option to camera path editor and enabled by default.
  • Fix different initial smooth tension value between slider and camera_path.smoothness
  • Allow negative smoothness tension value
  • Show camera path points based on total number of frames
  • Upgrade viser to 0.2.2

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

v0.5.0

What's changed

• Release a new appearance model, which can be used to reconstruct a scene from images with variable appearances
• Load camera path from existing files

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.5.0

v0.3.0

What's changed

• Release some VastGaussian related codes that can be used to reconstruct a large scene