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arxiv: 2606.29496 · v1 · pith:PU3JA6PCnew · submitted 2026-06-28 · 💻 cs.CV

Rectifying Mask via Entropy for Distractor-Free 3DGS in Ambiguous Scenarios

Wongi Park , Jiyeon Lim , Minjae Lee , Myeongseok Nam , Seongjun Choi , Jungwoo Kim , Soomok Lee , William J. Beksi
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keywords 3D Gaussian splattingtransient masksentropy maskingdistractor-free synthesisambiguous scenesnovel view synthesisinstance masks
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The pith

Entropy from reconstruction separates ambiguous distractors from static scenes in 3D Gaussian splatting.

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

The paper analyzes issues with existing methods that cannot distinguish transient elements from static scenes when color or semantic cues are similar. It proposes a novel entropy-aware adaptive masking method that uses entropy along with instance masks to capture these distractors. It further introduces entropy-aware density control to align the Gaussians considering positional gradients based on entropy. To test this, a new dataset with 18 scenes of ambiguous cases is created and released. The approach results in state-of-the-art performance for distractor-free novel view synthesis across datasets.

Core claim

A systematic framework constructs transient masks to identify diverse ambiguous distractors by leveraging entropy and instance masks, and proposes entropy-aware density control to align Gaussians in ambiguous scenarios considering entropy-aware positional gradients, resulting in distractor-free novel view synthesis.

What carries the argument

The entropy-aware adaptive masking method that uses entropy computed from the reconstruction to distinguish transient distractors when color or semantic ambiguity is present.

If this is right

  • Transient masks can be constructed without depending solely on color or semantic information.
  • Instance masks enhance the capture of ambiguous distractors when combined with entropy.
  • Entropy-aware positional gradients allow better alignment of Gaussians in ambiguous scenarios.
  • The introduced dataset of 18 ambiguous scenes serves as a rigorous validation benchmark.
  • Novel view synthesis achieves state-of-the-art results on various datasets including the new one.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Applying similar entropy-based separation could improve distractor handling in other 3D reconstruction approaches.
  • The public release of the ambiguous scenes dataset enables comparative testing of alternative masking strategies.
  • Scenes where entropy fails to differentiate could highlight needs for additional cues in future work.

Load-bearing premise

Entropy computed from the reconstruction can reliably separate transient distractors from static scene content even when color or semantic cues are ambiguous.

What would settle it

An ambiguous scene in which entropy values overlap substantially between distractor and static regions, leading to ineffective masking that fails to produce clean reconstructions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.29496 by Jiyeon Lim, Jungwoo Kim, Minjae Lee, Myeongseok Nam, Sanghyun Lee, Seongjun Choi, Soomok Lee, William J. Beksi, Wongi Park.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Given real-world environments, RefineSplat effectively renders 3D novel view synthesis without ambiguous distractors. Our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Motivation. We color the normalized values, ranging [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Effectiveness of transient masks and thresholds. (a) and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Entropy-aware density control. (a) Compared to exist [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative results from novel-view synthesis on the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Analysis of the entropy-aware adaptive masking. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Analysis of the entropy-aware adaptive masking mod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Analysis of the Entropy-aware density control. (a) Com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison of the depth consistency. We visualize the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Analysis of the consistency regularization. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Analysis of threshold strategies. We visualize how [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visualization of residual and cosine similarity maps. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Effectiveness of COLMAP SfM point clouds due to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: An analysis of sparsity issue on the Corner scene. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Visualization of Appearance variations on the Photo Tourism dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Additional sample images on the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Additional sample images on the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Additional qualitative results on the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Additional qualitative results on the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Additional qualitative results on the NeRF On-the-go dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Additional qualitative results on the Photo Tourism dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Additional qualitative results on the DroneSplat dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Comparison of transient masks in the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Comparison of transient masks in the Ambiguous wild dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Comparison of transient masks in the NeRF On-the-go dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Comparison of transient masks in the Photo Tourism dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Comparison of transient masks in the Drone Imagery dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Our user study questionnaire. Each participant was shown an upper figure, which is a rendering video of several scenes using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_30.png] view at source ↗
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We present RefineSplat, a systematic framework that effectively constructs transient masks to identify diverse ambiguous distractors. To do this, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyze issues and propose a novel entropy-aware adaptive masking method. Unlike existing approaches that struggle to distinguish transient elements from static scenes due to color or semantic ambiguity, RefineSplat captures ambiguous distractors leveraging entropy and instance masks. Furthermore, we propose a simple yet effective entropy-aware density control to align Gaussians in ambiguous scenarios considering Entropy-aware positional gradients. Additionally, to rigorously validate our method, we first create and release the Ambiguous wild dataset, including 18 scenes where distractors and static scenes are hard to distinguish due to color or semantic resemblances. Experimental results on various datasets demonstrate that RefineSplat shows state-of-the-art performance, showing distractor-free novel view synthesis.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents RefineSplat, a framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting that constructs transient masks for ambiguous distractors using an entropy-aware adaptive masking method combined with instance masks. It additionally introduces entropy-aware density control based on positional gradients and releases the Ambiguous wild dataset containing 18 scenes with color or semantic ambiguities between distractors and static content. The central claim is that this approach achieves state-of-the-art distractor-free novel view synthesis on various datasets where prior methods fail due to ambiguity.

Significance. If the entropy-based masking and density control are shown to reliably separate transient elements without circular dependency on the initial reconstruction, the work would address a practical limitation in real-world 3DGS applications and the released dataset would provide a useful benchmark for the community.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The entropy-aware adaptive masking computes entropy from the current 3DGS reconstruction to identify transient distractors, but the description provides no mechanism showing how the adaptive schedule or instance-mask fallback prevents the initial unmasked optimization from producing corrupted high-entropy signals across both static and transient content in ambiguous scenes.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim of state-of-the-art performance is stated without reference to any quantitative tables, ablation studies, or specific metrics, making it impossible to assess whether the data support the superiority over existing methods that struggle with color/semantic ambiguity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the comments. We address each point below, clarifying details from the manuscript and noting where revisions to the abstract will improve accessibility.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The entropy-aware adaptive masking computes entropy from the current 3DGS reconstruction to identify transient distractors, but the description provides no mechanism showing how the adaptive schedule or instance-mask fallback prevents the initial unmasked optimization from producing corrupted high-entropy signals across both static and transient content in ambiguous scenes.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes the approach at a high level, but Section 3.2 provides the full mechanism: the process initializes with instance masks to guide early optimization and establish a reliable baseline reconstruction before entropy computation begins. An adaptive schedule then applies entropy thresholds derived from positional gradients, using instance masks as a persistent fallback to protect static regions. This staged design avoids initial corruption by ensuring entropy signals are only refined after instance-guided separation. We will revise the abstract to briefly reference this staged adaptive schedule and instance-mask fallback for clarity. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim of state-of-the-art performance is stated without reference to any quantitative tables, ablation studies, or specific metrics, making it impossible to assess whether the data support the superiority over existing methods that struggle with color/semantic ambiguity.

    Authors: The manuscript supports the SOTA claim with detailed results in Section 4, including quantitative comparisons on the Ambiguous wild dataset and other benchmarks, plus ablations isolating the entropy-aware masking and density control components. While abstracts conventionally avoid table citations, we agree the summary could be strengthened. We will revise the abstract to reference the experimental validation in Section 4 and note the supporting quantitative and ablation studies. revision: partial

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full rationale

The provided abstract and text describe an entropy-aware adaptive masking method for 3DGS without any equations, fitting procedures, or derivation steps that reduce to self-definition or fitted inputs. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are quoted that would create load-bearing circularity. The method is presented as addressing ambiguity via entropy and instance masks, with no evidence of the prediction or mask depending on itself by construction. This is the common case of an honest non-finding when no specific reduction can be exhibited from quoted paper content.

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