Gaussian Splats Town Hall Part 3: Research Insights and Interoperability

Join us for a town hall exploring the cutting-edge research shaping the future of Gaussian splats in digital reconstruction, visualization, and real-time rendering. Building on insights from the previous sessions, this town hall will delve into the research world of Gaussian splats and also review the latest progress made in interoperability.

This town hall will highlight active research in areas such as scalable level of detail (LOD) for massive scenes; efficient ray tracing with Gaussian primitives; animation; editing; and compression.

As the ecosystem evolves, we’ll discuss how the community can work together to ensure that progress is made thoughtfully and strategically, considering the needs and challenges of all stakeholders, including the research community driving innovation and industry’s need to avoid fragmenting the ecosystem.

Whether you’re a researcher developing new algorithms; an engine or tool developer; or a user interested in the future of digital reconstruction, this town hall is your opportunity to contribute to shaping the path forward for the industry.

Agenda

Introduction

• Patrick Cozzi, Chief Platform Officer, Bentley Systems and Co-Chair 3D Asset Interoperability WG at the Forum

Moderators

• Shannon Woods, Principal Graphics Technical Program Manager, Nvidia
• Alexey Medvedev, AR Tech Lead, Meta

Speakers

• Dynamic 3D Gaussians with the Forge Renderer – Christoph Lassner, Co-Founder at World Labs
• Towards Graphics-Compatible 3DGS: Research Trends in Materials, Lighting, and Relighting – Zian Wang, Research Scientist at NVIDIA
• Developing an Open Framework for 3DGS Compression and Metadata – Wieland Morgenstern, Research Associate, Computer Vision & Graphics Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI
• SPZ Compression Format for Gaussian Splats – Projit Bandyopadhyay, Senior Software Engineer at Niantic Spatial and Jason Sobotka, Senior Software Engineer at Cesium/Bentley Systems
• Gaussian Splatting with glTF and SPZ – Jason Sobotka, Senior Software Engineer at Cesium/Bentley Systems

Join the Discussion

Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/Fs8S8A7R