arxiv: 2604.05908 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-07 · 💻 cs.CV

Recognition: 2 theorem links

· Lean Theorem

Appearance Decomposition Gaussian Splatting for Multi-Traversal Reconstruction

Yangyi Xiao , Siting Zhu , Baoquan Yang , Tianchen Deng , Yongbo Chen , Hesheng Wang

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keywords multi-traversal reconstructionGaussian splattingappearance decompositionneural light fieldillumination modelingautonomous driving simulationscene consistencydigital twins

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The pith

Decomposing appearance into fixed material and variable illumination lets Gaussian splatting combine multiple traversals into one consistent 3D scene.

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

The paper introduces a method to handle appearance changes across multiple passes over the same area by explicitly separating what stays the same from what changes. For the static parts of the scene, it models intrinsic material colors separately from the lighting conditions at each traversal. This separation uses a neural light field that encodes low-frequency diffuse light and high-frequency reflections differently, guided by surface normals and reflection directions. The result is more consistent renderings when combining sequences taken at different times, as shown on driving datasets. A reader would care because it supports building accurate simulations for autonomous vehicles and digital twins from real-world captures.

Core claim

The central claim is that applying an explicit appearance decomposition to the static background in Gaussian splatting, separating traversal-invariant material from traversal-dependent illumination via a neural light field with frequency-separated hybrid encoding and explicit normals and reflections, allows integrating multiple traversals while reducing appearance inconsistency.

What carries the argument

The appearance decomposition into material and illumination components, implemented through a neural light field using frequency-separated hybrid encoding that incorporates surface normals and reflection vectors.

Load-bearing premise

The underlying geometry of the static background stays identical across traversals and all appearance differences come only from changes in illumination.

What would settle it

A set of traversals in which the same physical location shows actual geometric changes such as new construction or persistent dynamic objects, which would make the decomposed renders inconsistent regardless of lighting adjustments.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.05908 by Baoquan Yang, Hesheng Wang, Siting Zhu, Tianchen Deng, Yangyi Xiao, Yongbo Chen.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Consistent Multi-Traversal Reconstruction via Appearance Decomposition. (Left) Input images from multi-traversal scenes exhibit appearance inconsistencies due to changes in illumination, weather, and time of day. (Middle) ADM-GS decomposes the static scene appearance into a traversal-invariant material field (M) and a traversal-dependent light field (Lm), enabling structured modeling of cross-traversal app… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Framework of Appearance Decomposition Gaussian Splatting for Multi-Traversal Reconstruction. ADM-GS represents the scene with a hybrid scene graph consisting of static, object, and sky nodes. Its core static node decomposes appearance into a traversal-invariant material field and a traversaldependent light field, where normal and reflection-vector cues are introduced to improve illumination prediction. A … view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Illustration of frequency-separated illumination cues. Surface normals are mainly associated with low-frequency diffuse illumination, while reflection vectors are more informative for high-frequency view-dependent specular effects. By feeding r into the light field, we align the input domain with the peak direction of the specular lobe. This effectively simplifies the network’s task from learning a spatial… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Visual comparison of novel view synthesis on dynamic scenes. We compare our method with recent approaches on the Argoverse 2 (top row) and Waymo Open (bottom row) datasets. Methods such as Bilateral-Driving [21] and OmniRe [18] show noticeable blur and ghosting artifacts in dynamic-object regions. In contrast, our method produces sharper novel-view renderings and is visually closer to the ground truth. bot… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative analysis of appearance decomposition on the Argoverse 2 multi-traversal dataset. Each row corresponds to a different traversal of the same scene. The estimated material remains largely consistent across traversals, while the illumination maps capture traversal-dependent illumination changes. The normal maps provide geometric cues that support illumination estimation. Source Scene (T1) Target Il… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Qualitative application: cross-traversal scene relighting. We demonstrate the controllability of the learned decomposition by transferring traversaldependent illumination from Traversal T2 to a scene observed in Traversal T1. Column 1 shows the source image from T1. Column 2 shows the target traversal used to provide the illumination condition from T2. Column 3 shows the estimated traversal-invariant mate… view at source ↗

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Multi-traversal scene reconstruction is important for high-fidelity autonomous driving simulation and digital twin construction. This task involves integrating multiple sequences captured from the same geographical area at different times. In this context, a primary challenge is the significant appearance inconsistency across traversals caused by varying illumination and environmental conditions, despite the shared underlying geometry. This paper presents ADM-GS (Appearance Decomposition Gaussian Splatting for Multi-Traversal Reconstruction), a framework that applies an explicit appearance decomposition to the static background to alleviate appearance entanglement across traversals. For the static background, we decompose the appearance into traversal-invariant material, representing intrinsic material properties, and traversal-dependent illumination, capturing lighting variations. Specifically, we propose a neural light field that utilizes a frequency-separated hybrid encoding strategy. By incorporating surface normals and explicit reflection vectors, this design separately captures low-frequency diffuse illumination and high-frequency specular reflections. Quantitative evaluations on the Argoverse 2 and Waymo Open datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of ADM-GS. In multi-traversal experiments, our method achieves a +0.98 dB PSNR improvement over existing latent-based baselines while producing more consistent appearance across traversals. Code will be available at https://github.com/IRMVLab/ADM-GS.

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

ADM-GS adds an explicit material-versus-illumination split inside Gaussian Splatting for multi-traversal driving scenes, but the reported 0.98 dB gain depends on untested assumptions about perfect geometry sharing.

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Colleague, the main point is that this paper decomposes static-background appearance in Gaussian Splatting into a traversal-invariant material component and a traversal-dependent illumination component. They do this with a neural light field that uses frequency-separated hybrid encoding, surface normals, and explicit reflection vectors to separate low-frequency diffuse lighting from high-frequency specular effects. That split is not in the latent-appearance baselines they cite, so the construction is new for this setting. They show a +0.98 dB PSNR lift and better cross-traversal consistency on Argoverse 2 and Waymo multi-traversal sequences, which is a concrete number on public data. The idea directly targets a practical pain point in autonomous-driving simulation where lighting changes between passes even when the road geometry stays the same. The frequency separation and reflection-vector input look like reasonable engineering choices for handling the different lighting regimes. That said, the gain is modest and the abstract gives no ablations, error bars, or details on how the light-field hyperparameters were selected. The decomposition only cleanly separates the two factors if the underlying Gaussian geometry and normals are exactly identical across traversals. Any residual drift, calibration error, or unmasked dynamic objects would couple geometry mistakes into the learned illumination field and could inflate or deflate the measured improvement. The summary does not mention an explicit alignment step or dynamic masking, so that assumption needs checking in the full text. This paper is for people working on neural rendering for robotics and digital twins who already use 3DGS on multi-pass data. It is an incremental but practical extension rather than a foundational change. I would send it to peer review because the core claim is testable on standard datasets and the method is clearly described enough for referees to evaluate the geometry-consistency issue and ask for the missing controls.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes ADM-GS, an extension of Gaussian Splatting for multi-traversal reconstruction that decomposes static-background appearance into a traversal-invariant material component and a traversal-dependent illumination component. The decomposition is realized via a neural light field employing frequency-separated hybrid encoding together with explicit surface normals and reflection vectors to separately model low-frequency diffuse and high-frequency specular effects. On Argoverse 2 and Waymo Open multi-traversal sequences the method reports a +0.98 dB PSNR gain over latent-based baselines together with improved cross-traversal appearance consistency.

Significance. If the geometric-identity assumption holds and the reported gain is shown to be robust, the explicit material/illumination factorization would constitute a useful, interpretable advance for high-fidelity autonomous-driving simulation and digital-twin construction, where appearance drift across repeated traversals is a practical obstacle. The frequency-separated encoding with normals and reflections is a concrete, testable design choice that could be adopted by other explicit radiance-field pipelines.

major comments (2)

[Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central quantitative claim of a +0.98 dB PSNR improvement is presented without error bars, without ablation tables isolating the contribution of the frequency-separated encoding or the reflection-vector term, and without any description of how the neural-light-field hyperparameters were selected; these omissions make it impossible to determine whether the measured delta arises from the intended decomposition or from the added network capacity.
[Method] §3 (Method, neural light field): the separation of diffuse and specular illumination presupposes that Gaussian positions and normals are exactly shared across traversals; the manuscript provides no geometric-alignment procedure, no dynamic-object mask, and no quantitative verification that residual drift or unmasked movers are negligible on the Argoverse 2 / Waymo sequences used for evaluation. Any such misalignment would couple geometry error directly into the learned illumination field and thereby undermine both the PSNR delta and the consistency claim.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] The abstract states that code will be released at https://github.com/IRMVLab/ADM-GS but supplies neither a commit hash nor a release tag, which hinders immediate reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of presentation and methodological assumptions. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that strengthen the clarity and robustness of the claims without altering the core technical contributions.

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Referee: [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central quantitative claim of a +0.98 dB PSNR improvement is presented without error bars, without ablation tables isolating the contribution of the frequency-separated encoding or the reflection-vector term, and without any description of how the neural-light-field hyperparameters were selected; these omissions make it impossible to determine whether the measured delta arises from the intended decomposition or from the added network capacity.

Authors: We agree that the absence of error bars, targeted ablations, and hyperparameter details weakens the interpretability of the reported +0.98 dB gain. In the revised version we will add (i) error bars computed as standard deviation over five independent training runs with different random seeds for all reported metrics, (ii) an ablation table that isolates the frequency-separated hybrid encoding and the explicit reflection-vector term while keeping total network capacity constant, and (iii) a supplementary section describing the hyperparameter selection procedure, including the frequency bands chosen for diffuse versus specular components and the grid-search protocol used on a held-out validation split. These additions will allow readers to attribute the observed improvement to the proposed decomposition rather than incidental capacity increases. revision: yes
Referee: [Method] §3 (Method, neural light field): the separation of diffuse and specular illumination presupposes that Gaussian positions and normals are exactly shared across traversals; the manuscript provides no geometric-alignment procedure, no dynamic-object mask, and no quantitative verification that residual drift or unmasked movers are negligible on the Argoverse 2 / Waymo sequences used for evaluation. Any such misalignment would couple geometry error directly into the learned illumination field and thereby undermine both the PSNR delta and the consistency claim.

Authors: The method indeed assumes that the static-background Gaussians (positions and normals) are shared across traversals. Alignment is performed by registering all sequences to a common world coordinate frame using the dataset-provided camera poses and COLMAP reconstructions; we select only sequences whose SfM point clouds overlap sufficiently and visually confirm static content. We acknowledge that the current manuscript does not describe this procedure in detail, does not apply an explicit dynamic-object mask, and provides no quantitative drift metric. In revision we will expand §3 with a dedicated preprocessing subsection that (a) states the alignment steps, (b) notes the static-scene assumption together with qualitative examples of minimal movers in the chosen Argoverse 2 and Waymo clips, and (c) discusses why residual drift is expected to be small given the dataset construction. A full quantitative drift analysis would require additional per-pixel annotations unavailable in the public releases; we will therefore treat this as an explicit modeling assumption rather than an empirically verified claim. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical gains from explicit decomposition are measured, not derived by construction.

full rationale

The paper introduces ADM-GS as a modeling framework that decomposes static-background appearance via a neural light field with frequency-separated encoding, normals, and reflection vectors, then reports measured PSNR improvements (+0.98 dB) and consistency on Argoverse 2 / Waymo multi-traversal data. No derivation chain exists that reduces a claimed result to its inputs by definition, no fitted parameter is relabeled as an independent prediction, and no load-bearing self-citation or uniqueness theorem is invoked. The quantitative results are external evaluations of the proposed architecture rather than tautological outputs of the same fitting process.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that geometry is shared and that appearance variation is purely photometric. No explicit free parameters are named in the abstract, but the neural light field necessarily introduces learned weights. No new physical entities are postulated.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Static background geometry is identical across all traversals
Stated in the abstract as the premise that allows material to be traversal-invariant.
domain assumption All appearance change is caused by illumination only
The decomposition separates material from illumination; any other source of variation would invalidate the split.

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