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arxiv: 2601.17185 · v2 · submitted 2026-01-23 · 💻 cs.CV

LGDWT-GS: Local and Global Discrete Wavelet-Regularized 3D Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-View Scene Reconstruction

Shima Salehi , Atharva Agashe , Andrew J. McFarland , Joshua Peeples This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords 3D Gaussian Splattingsparse-view reconstructionwavelet regularizationmultispectral datasetfew-shot 3D reconstructionfrequency regularizationgreenhouse dataset
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Local and global wavelet regularization stabilizes 3D Gaussian Splatting under sparse input views.

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The paper presents LGDWT-GS, a variant of 3D Gaussian Splatting that adds both local and global discrete wavelet regularization during optimization. This frequency-domain constraint aims to reduce geometric instability and loss of fine detail when only a few input images are available. The authors also release a new multispectral greenhouse dataset of plant scenes across four spectral bands and an open-source benchmarking package that standardizes few-shot evaluation protocols. Experiments on the new dataset and existing benchmarks show the regularized model produces sharper surfaces and more consistent results across views and wavelengths than prior 3DGS methods.

Core claim

Integrating local and global discrete wavelet frequency regularization into the 3D Gaussian Splatting training process stabilizes geometry and preserves high-frequency details in reconstructions from sparse-view inputs, while maintaining spectral consistency on multispectral data.

What carries the argument

Local and global discrete wavelet frequency regularization applied to the Gaussian parameters during optimization, which penalizes unwanted frequency components to enforce stability without dense supervision.

If this is right

  • Fewer input images suffice for usable 3D models in applications such as plant phenotyping and indoor mapping.
  • Spectral consistency across bands improves when the same wavelet constraints act on all channels simultaneously.
  • Standardized few-shot protocols in the released benchmark make incremental improvements measurable across methods.
  • The open-source dataset and code lower the barrier for testing frequency regularization on other radiance-field representations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same local-global wavelet scheme could be ported to other explicit scene representations such as neural points or voxel grids.
  • Extending the regularization to time-varying scenes might reduce the number of frames needed for dynamic reconstruction.
  • In robotics, the reduced view requirement could translate directly to shorter capture times for 3D environment maps.

Load-bearing premise

Wavelet-based frequency penalties will reduce sparse-view artifacts and preserve detail without introducing new blurring or requiring heavy per-scene tuning.

What would settle it

A controlled test on the released sparse-view benchmarks showing that the regularized model produces equal or greater geometric error or new high-frequency noise compared with the unregularized baseline would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.17185 by Andrew J. McFarland, Atharva Agashe, Joshua Peeples, Shima Salehi.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the LGDWT-GS framework. The model introduces frequency-domain regularization through global and local DWT losses. Combined [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Wavelet decomposition of the input image into four subbands: (a) LL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: ELF map used for patch selection: (a) Ground Truth, (b) ELF Map. Red regions denote low ELF values, indicating weak LF stability or missing HF details and revealing spatial frequency imbalance in the reconstruction. structural information is weak or where HF details are missing in LF regions, as illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example spectral channels for three representative plant scenes. Columns correspond to 580 nm (Green), 660 nm (Red), 735 nm (Red Edge), and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Greenhouse imaging setup. The MSIS-AGRI-1-A camera, LED [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Few-shot 3DGS benchmarking tool overview. The overall framework [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparison between baseline 3DGS and our LGDWT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of reconstruction outputs across input configurations: (a) Ground Truth, (b) Single-channel, (c) Single-channel + DWT, (d) Multispectral [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We propose a new method for few-shot 3D reconstruction that integrates global and local frequency regularization to stabilize geometry and preserve fine details under sparse-view conditions, addressing a key limitation of existing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) models. We also introduce a new multispectral greenhouse dataset containing four spectral bands captured from diverse plant species under controlled conditions. Alongside the dataset, we release an open-source benchmarking package that defines standardized few-shot reconstruction protocols for evaluating 3DGS-based methods. Experiments on our multispectral dataset, as well as standard benchmarks, demonstrate that the proposed method achieves sharper, more stable, and spectrally consistent reconstructions than existing baselines. The dataset and code for this work are publicly available

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes LGDWT-GS, which augments 3D Gaussian Splatting with local and global discrete wavelet regularization terms added to the loss for stabilizing geometry and preserving fine details in sparse-view reconstruction. It also introduces a new multispectral greenhouse dataset with four spectral bands captured from diverse plant species and releases an open-source benchmarking package defining standardized few-shot protocols. The central claim is that the method produces sharper, more stable, and spectrally consistent results than baselines on the new dataset and standard benchmarks.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold after proper validation, the wavelet-based frequency regularization could address a known instability in 3DGS under sparse views by enforcing multi-scale consistency, and the released multispectral dataset plus benchmarking code would be a concrete community contribution for reproducibility and standardized evaluation.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract: the performance gains are asserted without any quantitative tables, error bars, ablation studies, or derivation details, so the central claim that the combined local+global DWT regularization stabilizes geometry and enforces spectral consistency cannot be verified from the supplied information.
  2. Experiments section: no ablation that isolates the local DWT term versus the global DWT term (while keeping all other losses fixed) is reported, leaving the contribution of each component to the stabilization claim unverified.
  3. Experiments section: the spectral-consistency claim lacks any cross-band metric (e.g., band-to-band correlation or Fourier consistency across the four greenhouse bands); reliance on standard PSNR/SSIM on RGB composites can mask frequency-specific or band-specific degradations.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the description of dataset capture conditions, lighting control, and species diversity is too brief to allow readers to assess potential biases.
  2. The benchmarking package is a positive step, but its documentation should explicitly list the exact few-shot view-selection protocols and evaluation splits.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the suggested improvements in the revised manuscript to strengthen the presentation of our claims and experimental validation.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the performance gains are asserted without any quantitative tables, error bars, ablation studies, or derivation details, so the central claim that the combined local+global DWT regularization stabilizes geometry and enforces spectral consistency cannot be verified from the supplied information.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract is concise and would benefit from explicit quantitative support. In the revision we will add specific performance highlights (e.g., mean PSNR and SSIM gains on the multispectral dataset relative to 3DGS baselines) directly into the abstract while retaining its brevity. Full tables with error bars, ablations, and derivation details already appear in the Experiments and Method sections; we will add explicit forward references from the abstract to these sections. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Experiments section: no ablation that isolates the local DWT term versus the global DWT term (while keeping all other losses fixed) is reported, leaving the contribution of each component to the stabilization claim unverified.

    Authors: This observation is correct. The current experiments report only the combined local+global regularization. We will add a new ablation table in the revised Experiments section that isolates the local DWT term, the global DWT term, and their combination while holding all other loss terms fixed, thereby directly verifying the contribution of each component to geometric stability. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Experiments section: the spectral-consistency claim lacks any cross-band metric (e.g., band-to-band correlation or Fourier consistency across the four greenhouse bands); reliance on standard PSNR/SSIM on RGB composites can mask frequency-specific or band-specific degradations.

    Authors: We appreciate this point. Although all four spectral bands are used during training and evaluation, we did not report explicit cross-band metrics. In the revision we will add band-to-band correlation coefficients and Fourier-spectrum consistency measures computed across the four greenhouse bands to provide direct evidence of spectral consistency beyond standard RGB-composite PSNR/SSIM. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: additive regularization on existing 3DGS loss

full rationale

The paper introduces local and global discrete wavelet regularization terms added to the standard 3D Gaussian Splatting loss for sparse-view reconstruction. No equations reduce by construction to fitted parameters or prior self-citations; the central claim is an independent extension rather than a renaming or self-definition. The multispectral dataset and benchmarking package are presented as new contributions without load-bearing self-references in the derivation. Standard benchmarks and the new dataset provide external evaluation points, keeping the method self-contained against external baselines.

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