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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Triangle Splatting

Abstract

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We develop a differentiable rendering method for recovering 3D meshes of scenes from 2D images. Unlike existing approaches, our method does not rely on a differentiable renderers and is compatible with any standard mesh rasterizer. To our knowledge, it is the first mesh-based differentiable rendering method that is not reliant the use of visibility masks entirely. Beyond these conceptual advancements, we implemented a set of highly optimized kernels that enable efficient scene representation on a sparse voxel grid, effectively overcoming the cubic scaling bottleneck faced by similar methods. These innovations result in promising performance on unbounded real-world scenes with complex backgrounds.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master
Department dc:contributor.department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Grantor dc:publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year dc:date.issued
2025

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Xu, Daniel
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Sitzmann, Vincent

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
  • Copyright retained by author(s)

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/162966
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/162966

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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Xu, Daniel. Triangle Splatting. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/162966