Supplemental Materials - Floaters No More:
Radiance Field Gradient Scaling for Improved Near-Camera Training

Julien Philip Valentin Deschaintre
Adobe Research Adobe Research

For each of the method we provide video or image comparisons with and without gradient scaling

JAX Implementation

@custom_jvp
def gradientScaling(origins, gaussians, rgb, density):
    return rgb, density

@gradientScaling.defjvp
def lgradientScaling_jvp(primals, tangents):
    origins, gaussians, rgb,density = primals
    origins_dot, gaussians_dot, rgb_dot, density_dot = tangents
    ans = gradientScaling(origins, gaussians, rgb,density)
    scaling = jnp.square(jnp.linalg.norm(gaussians[0]-origins[:, :, :, None], axis=-1, keepdims=True)).clip(0, 1)
    ans_dot = (rgb_dot * scaling, density_dot * scaling[..., 0])
    return ans, ans_dot