The recent 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has shown remarkable rendering
fidelity and efficiency compared to NeRF-based neural scene representations.
While demonstrating the potential for real-time rendering, 3D-GS encounters
rendering bottlenecks in large scenes with complex details due to an excessive
number of Gaussian primitives located within the viewing frustum. This
limitation is particularly noticeable in zoom-out views and can lead to
inconsistent rendering speeds in scenes with varying details. Moreover, it
often struggles to capture the corresponding level of details at different
scales with its heuristic density control operation. Inspired by the
Level-of-Detail (LOD) techniques, we introduce Octree-GS, featuring an
LOD-structured 3D Gaussian approach supporting level-of-detail decomposition
for scene representation that contributes to the final rendering results. Our
model dynamically selects the appropriate level from the set of
multi-resolution anchor points, ensuring consistent rendering performance with
adaptive LOD adjustments while maintaining high-fidelity rendering results.

Octree-GS 是一种基于层次细节控制的 3D 高斯方法，解决了 3D-GS 在大场景、复杂细节和不同尺度下的渲染限制，并实现了实时渲染性能和高保真度的平衡。