CADSplat: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting Aided by CAD Models for Robust, Photorealistic Digital-Twin Reconstruction

📅 2026-09-16
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该研究提出CADSplat框架,通过结合CAD模型先验来优化3D高斯点云,从稀疏视角图像中重建几何准确且逼真的数字孪生。
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We present CADSplat, a framework that reconstructs photorealistic, geometrically accurate digital twins from sparse ($<15$ views), wide-baseline posed images of an object by regularizing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with an explicit CAD shape prior. Using such a prior requires finding a CAD model whose shape resembles the object depicted in the images and determining the pose of each camera relative to the object. We obtain both by matching segmented object silhouettes against silhouettes rendered from a CAD library and keeping the camera-to-object poses of the best-matching model. We then anchor 3D Gaussian primitives to the surface of the retrieved model and jointly optimize the 3DGS parameters, the camera-to-object registration, and a non-rigid deformation field to account for shape differences between the physical object and the CAD model. Across two real-world datasets, CADSplat outperforms unconstrained, few-shot, and mesh-texturing baselines and degrades gracefully to as few as 3 views. Our experiments show that most of the gain in rendering quality comes from how the splats are constrained---a fixed set of splats tied to a surface and moved by a single smooth deformation field---rather than from the CAD shape itself. The CAD model adds shape knowledge where views are scarcest, in the sparsest captures and on strongly self-occluded objects, and it places every camera in the object's own frame. This enables applications beyond novel-view synthesis, such as markerless augmented reality registration, per-image object pose estimation, physical simulations, and the transfer of part labels from the design to the reconstruction.
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Sparse-View
Photorealistic
Digital-Twin
Reconstruction
3D Gaussian Splatting
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3D Gaussian Splatting
CAD shape prior
non-rigid deformation field
sparse view reconstruction
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