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GOR-IS: 3D Gaussian Object Removal in the Intrinsic Space

Yonghao Zhao , Yupeng Gao , Jian Yang , Jin Xie , Beibei Wang
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keywords 3D Gaussian Splattingobject removalintrinsic decompositionlight transportinpaintingnon-Lambertian surfacesphysical consistencyneural rendering
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The pith

Decomposing 3D scenes into intrinsic material and lighting components produces physically consistent object removal in Gaussian splatting.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Current methods for removing objects from 3D Gaussian splatted scenes often leave lighting inconsistencies and fail when surfaces change appearance with viewpoint. This paper establishes that first breaking the scene into separate intrinsic properties such as albedo and shading, then modeling how light moves through the scene, allows an inpainting process to fill removed regions while preserving global illumination and geometry. The inpainting step itself runs directly in this decomposed material-and-lighting space rather than on raw pixel colors. A reader would care because editing 3D captures for virtual environments or films requires the filled areas to look correct from every new camera angle without obvious seams or shadow errors. The authors report that the resulting renders score 13 percent better on perceptual similarity and 2 dB higher on signal quality than prior approaches.

Core claim

The central claim is that explicit decomposition of a 3D Gaussian scene into intrinsic components, combined with light-transport modeling, enables an intrinsic-space inpainting module to produce complete, view-consistent filling of removed object regions while preserving global lighting effects and handling non-Lambertian surfaces that vary with viewpoint.

What carries the argument

Intrinsic-component decomposition together with explicit light-transport modeling and an inpainting module that operates in the material and lighting domains inside 3D Gaussian Splatting.

If this is right

  • Object removal maintains global lighting effects and geometry consistency across all viewpoints.
  • View-dependent non-Lambertian surfaces receive reliable inpainting that does not break appearance coherence.
  • Perceptual similarity improves by 13 percent (LPIPS) and peak signal-to-noise ratio rises by 2 dB over existing techniques.
  • Inpainting of occluded regions becomes seamless in both synthetic and real-world multi-view datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same intrinsic decomposition and transport modeling could be applied to other 3D editing operations such as object insertion or scene relighting.
  • Extending the approach to time-varying or dynamic scenes would test whether lighting consistency holds when geometry itself changes.
  • Integration with more detailed material estimation could reduce remaining artifacts on highly specular surfaces.

Load-bearing premise

That decomposing the scene into intrinsic components and modeling light transport will always yield complete, view-consistent inpainting without introducing new artifacts on real non-Lambertian surfaces.

What would settle it

Multi-view captures of a real scene containing removed non-Lambertian objects where novel-view renderings of the inpainted regions display mismatched shadows, reflections, or color shifts compared with the original captured appearance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00498 by Beibei Wang, Jian Yang, Jin Xie, Yonghao Zhao, Yupeng Gao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: We propose GOR-IS, a novel framework that enhances both the physical consistency and visual coherence of 3D object removal. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: An example of consistent global lighting effects. When [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of the GOR-IS framework. We use 3DGS with extended material properties as the basic 3D representation, combined with a global illumination model, to decompose the scene into its material and lighting components. This decomposition enables explicit light transport modeling, ensuring consistent global lighting effects. Furthermore, we introduce a specially designed module for glossy reflection model… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The glossy reflection modeling. We first compute the ideal specular reflection S based on the Fresnel F and the incident radiance Li. Then, we perform mipmap filtering on S guided by roughness R, efficiently models the glossy reflection G. versions of ideal specular reflections, with the extent of the blur determined by surface roughness. Accordingly, we apply an filtering operator L[·] to the ideal specul… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The intrinsic-space inpainting module. Given pre￾captured Gaussians, we first remove object-related primitives and rasterize them to obtain material maps M_{i} . A 2D inpainting model is then applied to these material maps, producing inpainted results \protect \hat {M_{i}} . These are subsequently lifted to 3D for scene inpainting. Then, we compute lighting-aware masks of the target object via ray tracing … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visual comparisons with baseline methods on the GOR-IS-Synthetic and GOR-IS-Real datasets. The leftmost part displays [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation study of the explicit light transport modeling [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Ablation study of the intrinsic-space inpainting compo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Illustration of region division and blending. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Some scenes that showcase the limitations of our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Ablation study of the segmentation prior [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Ablation study of the normal prior Ngt. S6. More visualization results In this section, we present additional visualization results. We further evaluate our method on the Mip-NeRF 360 [2] and Ref-Real [45] datasets. Specifically, we select the garden scene from Mip-NeRF 360 and the garden spheres scene from Ref-Real, both of which contain non￾Lambertian surfaces (e.g., a glossy desktop and reflective sphe… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visualizations of scene decomposition. Input Removal GT Ours Infusion Real-world scene Synthetic scene SPIn-NeRF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visual comparisons with Infusion [25] and SPIn-NeRF [30] on the GOR-IS-Synthetic and GOR-IS-Real datasets [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Visual comparisons with baseline methods on the SPIn-NeRF dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Visual comparisons with baseline methods on the SPIn-NeRF dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_17.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made it standard practice to reconstruct 3D scenes from multi-view images. Removing objects from such 3D representations is a fundamental editing task that requires complete and seamless inpainting of occluded regions, ensuring consistency in geometry and appearance. Although existing methods have made notable progress in improving inpainting consistency, they often neglect global lighting effects, leading to physically implausible results. Moreover, these methods struggle with view-dependent non-Lambertian surfaces, where appearance varies across viewpoints, leading to unreliable inpainting. In this paper, we present 3D Gaussian Object Removal in the Intrinsic Space (GOR-IS), a novel framework for physically consistent and visually coherent 3D object removal. Our approach decomposes the scene into intrinsic components and explicitly models light transport to maintain global lighting effects consistency. Furthermore, we introduce an intrinsic-space inpainting module that operates directly in the material and lighting domains, effectively addressing the challenges posed by non-Lambertian surfaces. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our framework substantially improves the physical consistency and visual coherence of object removal, outperforming existing methods by 13% in perceptual similarity (LPIPS) and 2dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). Code is publicly available at https://applezyh.github.io/GOR-IS-project-page/

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces GOR-IS, a framework for object removal in 3D Gaussian Splatting by decomposing scenes into intrinsic components (albedo, normals, roughness) and explicitly modeling light transport. It proposes an intrinsic-space inpainting module to address non-Lambertian surfaces and claims improved physical consistency and visual coherence, with quantitative gains of 13% in LPIPS and 2dB in PSNR over prior methods on synthetic and real datasets. Code is made publicly available.

Significance. If the decomposition proves robust, the approach could advance 3D scene editing by enforcing lighting consistency and handling view-dependent effects better than direct RGB inpainting methods. Public code supports reproducibility, which is a strength for an experimental CV paper.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The claimed 13% LPIPS and 2dB PSNR improvements are reported without error bars, standard deviations across runs, or ablation studies isolating the intrinsic decomposition and light-transport components. This makes it impossible to verify whether gains follow from the method or from tuning, directly undermining the central experimental claim.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Intrinsic Decomposition): The method's success hinges on accurate decomposition into intrinsic components on real non-Lambertian surfaces, yet no quantitative metrics (e.g., albedo reconstruction error or normal angular error) are provided on the real-world test scenes to confirm that residual view-dependent effects are small enough to avoid artifacts upon re-rendering.
  3. [§3.3] §3.3 (Inpainting Module): It is unclear how errors in the intrinsic decomposition propagate through the light-transport model to the final 3DGS rendering; a concrete analysis or failure-case visualization showing view-consistency on specular surfaces would be needed to support the claim that the approach avoids new artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions 'global lighting effects consistency' but does not define the exact intrinsic basis (e.g., whether it includes specular roughness or environment maps); clarify this in §3.1.
  2. [§4] Ensure all tables in §4 include the exact number of scenes and views used for each metric to allow direct comparison with baselines.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below with clarifications and commitments to revisions that strengthen the experimental and methodological sections without overstating current results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The claimed 13% LPIPS and 2dB PSNR improvements are reported without error bars, standard deviations across runs, or ablation studies isolating the intrinsic decomposition and light-transport components. This makes it impossible to verify whether gains follow from the method or from tuning, directly undermining the central experimental claim.

    Authors: We agree that the reported improvements would be more convincing with statistical measures and targeted ablations. In the revised manuscript we will rerun the quantitative comparisons across multiple random seeds to report means and standard deviations for LPIPS and PSNR. We will also add ablation studies that isolate the intrinsic decomposition module and the explicit light-transport modeling, showing their individual contributions to the observed gains. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Intrinsic Decomposition): The method's success hinges on accurate decomposition into intrinsic components on real non-Lambertian surfaces, yet no quantitative metrics (e.g., albedo reconstruction error or normal angular error) are provided on the real-world test scenes to confirm that residual view-dependent effects are small enough to avoid artifacts upon re-rendering.

    Authors: Ground-truth intrinsic maps are unavailable for the real-world test scenes, precluding direct quantitative metrics such as albedo error or normal angular error. Our primary evaluation therefore measures end-to-end object removal quality, which serves as an indirect validation of decomposition quality through visual and geometric consistency. We will expand §3.2 with additional qualitative comparisons and an explicit discussion of residual view-dependent effects and their impact on re-rendering. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (Inpainting Module): It is unclear how errors in the intrinsic decomposition propagate through the light-transport model to the final 3DGS rendering; a concrete analysis or failure-case visualization showing view-consistency on specular surfaces would be needed to support the claim that the approach avoids new artifacts.

    Authors: We will add a concise error-propagation analysis to §3.3 that traces how small inaccuracies in the intrinsic components are handled by the light-transport model and the intrinsic-space inpainting. We will also include new failure-case visualizations focused on highly specular surfaces, demonstrating both the achieved view-consistency and any remaining artifacts. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Quantitative metrics for intrinsic decomposition accuracy on real non-Lambertian surfaces, as no ground-truth data exists for these scenes.

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full rationale

The paper's core contribution is a framework that decomposes scenes into intrinsic components (albedo, normals, etc.) and models light transport for inpainting in 3DGS representations. All performance claims (13% LPIPS, 2dB PSNR gains) are presented as outcomes of experiments on synthetic and real datasets, not as algebraic identities or fitted parameters. No equations appear in the provided abstract or description that would allow a self-definitional reduction, fitted-input prediction, or ansatz smuggled via self-citation. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce to its inputs by construction.

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