SpotLessSplats: Ignoring Distractors in 3D Gaussian Splatting

However, current methods require highly controlled environments—no moving people or wind-blown elements, and consistent lighting—to meet the inter-view consistency assumption of 3DGS. This makes reconstruction of real-world captures problematic.

We present SpotLessSplats, an approach that leverages pre-trained and general-purpose features coupled with robust optimization to effectively ignore transient distractors. Our method achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality both visually and quantitatively, on casual captures