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arxiv: 2606.30861 · v1 · pith:OBXWQO7Gnew · submitted 2026-06-29 · 💻 cs.GR

Editable Physically-based Reflections in Raytraced Gaussian Radiance Fields

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keywords 3D Gaussian Splattingspecular reflectionspath tracingscene editingradiance fieldsphysically based renderingray tracingmulti-bounce reflections
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The pith

Optimizing a diffuse Gaussian scene and applying path tracing reconstructs true reflectors and reflected objects for real-time editable specular reflections.

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

The paper sets out to replace the common practice of embedding fake reflected geometry behind surfaces in radiance fields with a representation that keeps the actual reflector and reflected content separate. It extracts diffuse and specular buffers from the input views, optimizes a Gaussian model that contains only the diffuse component, then uses path tracing on top of that model to produce the reflections. A custom training schedule makes the optimization converge, and a fast ray tracer for Gaussian primitives handles multi-bounce paths efficiently enough for real-time use. The result is a single scene model in which specular reflections, including those of unseen objects, can be edited while remaining physically consistent across viewpoints.

Core claim

By using diffuse and specular buffers of input training views, we optimize a diffuse version of the scene and use path tracing to efficiently generate physically based specular reflections. A specialized training method allows this process to converge. A fast ray tracing algorithm for 3D Gaussian primitives enables efficient multi-bounce reflections. Our method reconstructs reflectors and reflected objects, including those not seen in the input images, in a unique scene representation. Our solution allows real-time, consistent editing of captured scenes with specular reflections, including multi-bounce effects, changing roughness, and more.

What carries the argument

A diffuse-only 3D Gaussian scene representation optimized from specular-free buffers, augmented at render time by path tracing and a specialized ray tracer for Gaussian primitives.

If this is right

  • Multi-bounce specular reflections become available without storing fake geometry behind reflectors.
  • Surface properties such as roughness can be changed after capture while reflections update consistently across all views.
  • Objects visible only through reflections can be reconstructed and edited even if they never appear directly in the input photographs.
  • Editing operations remain real-time because the diffuse base and the path-traced overlay are decoupled.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • If buffer extraction improves, the same separation could support editing of other view-dependent effects such as refraction.
  • The current reliance on ground-truth buffers for the main results suggests that real-scene performance will track advances in learning-based decomposition methods.
  • Because the diffuse model is trained separately, the approach may be combinable with existing diffuse-only editing tools without retraining the entire radiance field.

Load-bearing premise

The method assumes that sufficiently accurate diffuse and specular buffers can be obtained from the input views via learning-based extraction and that the specialized training procedure converges to a usable diffuse scene representation.

What would settle it

A controlled test on synthetic data where the generated reflections after material edits fail to match ground-truth path-traced images or become inconsistent when the viewpoint changes.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.30861 by George Drettakis, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde, Jeffrey Hu, Yohan Poirier-Ginter.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Our Gaussian-based radiance-field method allows interactive editing of path traced reflections, with consistent updates. We develop our proof-of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Our method takes as input several buffers for every training view (left), and reconstructs a unique gaussian-based scene where reflections in novel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: We showcase reconstruction of objects viewed indirectly by recovering the cover of a book only visible indirectly through a mirror in the training views [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Radiance fields, recovered for example with EnvGS [Xie et al [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: We support physically-based reflections with different levels of rough [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: We support multi-bounce reflections during optimization. The num [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: We accelerate integration by approximating Gaussians of low contri [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: We encapsulate Gaussians with oriented bounding boxes (OBB) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: We fine-tune a pretrained Stable Diffusion 2 network into a one-step [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Example network predictions (left) for a given input view (top), and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Editing a synthetic scene: changing the base reflectance ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Editing two synthetic scenes: making a typewriter diffuse (first row), [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Our method reconstructs the environment behind the camera with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Disentanglement results of different methods on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Our method compared against EnvGS [Xie et al [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Our method leverages hardware-accelerated transforms, providing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Training with just 4 views still results in clean reflections provided [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Result of fitting our method (left) to network predicted buffers (right). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Disentanglement results for the Shiny Kitchen scene. SA Conference Papers ’25, December 15–18, 2025, Hong Kong, Hong Kong [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Disentanglement results for the Shiny Livingroom scene. SA Conference Papers ’25, December 15–18, 2025, Hong Kong, Hong Kong [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Disentanglement results for the Shiny Office scene. SA Conference Papers ’25, December 15–18, 2025, Hong Kong, Hong Kong [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_21.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting allow real-time rendering of scenes captured from photos. They also reconstruct most specular reflections with high visual quality, but typically model them with "fake" reflected geometry, using primitives behind the reflector. Our goal is to correctly reconstruct the reflector and the reflected objects such as to make specular reflections editable. We present a proof of concept which exploits promising learning-based methods to extract diffuse and specular buffers from photos, as well as geometry and BRDF buffers. Our method builds on three key components. First, by using diffuse and specular buffers of input training views, we optimize a diffuse version of the scene and use path tracing to efficiently generate physically based specular reflections. Second, we present a specialized training method that allows this process to converge. Finally, we present a fast ray tracing algorithm for 3D Gaussian primitives that enables efficient multi-bounce reflections. Our method reconstructs reflectors and reflected objects, including those not seen in the input images, in a unique scene representation. Our solution allows real-time, consistent editing of captured scenes with specular reflections, including multi-bounce effects, changing roughness, and more. We mainly show results using ground truth buffers from synthetic scenes, and also preliminary results in real scenes with currently imperfect learning-based buffers. Code and data are available at: https://repo-sam.inria.fr/nerphys/editable-gaussian-reflections/

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents a proof-of-concept method for editable, physically-based specular reflections in 3D Gaussian radiance fields. It extracts diffuse and specular (plus geometry/BRDF) buffers from input views via learning-based methods, optimizes a diffuse Gaussian scene representation, uses path tracing to generate the specular component, applies a specialized training procedure to ensure convergence, and introduces a fast ray-tracing algorithm over Gaussian primitives to support efficient multi-bounce reflections. The central claim is that this yields a unique scene representation that correctly reconstructs both reflectors and reflected objects (including those unseen in the input images) and enables real-time, consistent editing operations such as changing roughness or multi-bounce effects. Main results use ground-truth buffers on synthetic scenes; real-scene results are described as preliminary with imperfect learned buffers. Code and data are released.

Significance. If the claims hold, the work would be significant for radiance-field research in computer graphics: it replaces the common practice of modeling reflections via “fake” geometry behind the reflector with a physically-based, editable representation that supports path-traced multi-bounce effects. The combination of buffer separation, specialized optimization, and custom Gaussian ray tracing is a novel integration. Public release of code and data is a clear strength that aids reproducibility and follow-up work.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method overview and results sections] The central claim that reflected objects not visible in the input images can be reconstructed relies on the path-tracing component and the assumption that diffuse/specular buffers are sufficiently accurate. The manuscript provides no quantitative error analysis or ablation on buffer quality (synthetic GT vs. learned real buffers), which is load-bearing for the reconstruction and editing claims; without such analysis the extent to which unseen geometry is truly recovered versus hallucinated remains unclear.
  2. [Training procedure description] The specialized training procedure is presented as essential for convergence, yet no derivation, loss formulation, or comparison against standard 3DGS optimization is supplied in the high-level description. This omission makes it impossible to verify why the procedure succeeds where conventional training fails, undermining assessment of the method’s novelty and robustness.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Real-scene results] The abstract states that results on real scenes are “preliminary”; the corresponding section should explicitly list the current failure modes and buffer-error sensitivity to guide readers on the practical scope of the approach.
  2. [Ray-tracing algorithm] Notation for the diffuse versus specular Gaussian primitives and the ray-tracing acceleration structure should be introduced with a small diagram or pseudocode for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the positive assessment of the work's significance and for highlighting the value of the public code and data release. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity and support for the claims.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Method overview and results sections] The central claim that reflected objects not visible in the input images can be reconstructed relies on the path-tracing component and the assumption that diffuse/specular buffers are sufficiently accurate. The manuscript provides no quantitative error analysis or ablation on buffer quality (synthetic GT vs. learned real buffers), which is load-bearing for the reconstruction and editing claims; without such analysis the extent to which unseen geometry is truly recovered versus hallucinated remains unclear.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative analysis of buffer quality is important for substantiating the reconstruction claims. The manuscript explicitly states that main results use ground-truth buffers on synthetic scenes to demonstrate the core method in isolation, while real-scene results are presented as preliminary due to limitations in current learning-based buffers. To strengthen the paper, we will add a dedicated ablation subsection with quantitative metrics (e.g., PSNR/SSIM on reconstructed unseen geometry and reflection accuracy) comparing ground-truth versus learned buffers, including error propagation analysis from buffer inaccuracies. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Training procedure description] The specialized training procedure is presented as essential for convergence, yet no derivation, loss formulation, or comparison against standard 3DGS optimization is supplied in the high-level description. This omission makes it impossible to verify why the procedure succeeds where conventional training fails, undermining assessment of the method’s novelty and robustness.

    Authors: The manuscript describes the specialized training at a high level in the method overview because the full derivation, loss terms (including the custom regularization for diffuse/specular separation and path-traced supervision), and direct comparisons to vanilla 3DGS optimization are provided in the supplementary material and implementation details section. However, we acknowledge that the main text could better highlight these elements for readers. We will expand the main-text description with a concise derivation outline, explicit loss formulation, and a short comparison table or paragraph against standard 3DGS to improve accessibility without altering the core contribution. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper describes a proof-of-concept pipeline that takes diffuse/specular buffers (extracted via external learning-based methods or ground truth) as input, optimizes a diffuse Gaussian scene representation, and applies path tracing plus a custom ray-tracing algorithm for Gaussians to produce editable specular reflections. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are presented that reduce the claimed reconstruction of reflectors and unseen reflected objects to a definitional identity or a statistically forced prediction. The method explicitly qualifies results as dependent on buffer quality and training convergence, treating these as external prerequisites rather than deriving them internally. The central claims therefore remain self-contained against the stated inputs and do not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The approach implicitly relies on the existence of accurate learned buffers and convergence of the custom training schedule, but these are not formalized.

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