IGSW: Multi-Weather Urban Scene Reconstruction with Intrinsic-Decoupled Gaussian Splatting

High-fidelity weather editing of 4D scenes can support end-to-end training and closed-loop simulation for autonomous driving. Combining generative image editing with dynamic Gaussian representations enables multi-weather scene reconstruction, but weather-edited images often contain structural distortions. Directly fitting their appearance may propagate errors from teacher images into the reconstructed 4D scene, compromising the original scene structure and temporal continuity. To address these challenges, we propose IGSW, a two-stage framework that combines intrinsic-decoupled 4D Gaussian scene modeling with structure-preserving weather refinement. In Stage I, background Gaussian appearance is decomposed into weather-shared albedo and normals and weather-specific irradiance and residuals. Weather teacher images generated by a diffusion-based image editing model and intrinsic maps estimated by a diffusion-based inverse renderer provide feature-level soft supervision for stable structure and illumination changes. In Stage II, a structure-preservation gate combines semantic conflicts with cross-weather intrinsic discrepancies to suppress unreliable teacher regions. Per-Gaussian weather transport variables and target-weather branches then strengthen the desired weather appearance over the intrinsic-decoupled scene. Experiments on nuScenes and Waymo show that IGSW achieves the highest content similarity and semantic consistency and the lowest temporal error among the compared methods, while retaining pronounced weather-dependent illumination and atmosphere. The project page is available at https://akaxi6.github.io/IGSW/ .

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arXiv (Cornell University)
Published
2026-11-03
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2611.04374
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3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
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IGSW: Multi-Weather Urban Scene Reconstruction with Intrinsic-Decoupled Gaussian Splatting

Peijia Xie, Zhongquan Wang, Long Cao, Senlei Ma et al.
arXiv (Cornell University)
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
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IGSW: Multi-Weather Urban Scene Reconstruction with Intrinsic-Decoupled Gaussian Splatting

Peijia Xie, Zhongquan Wang, Long Cao, Senlei Ma, Guofa Li, Jie Li
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Abstract

High-fidelity weather editing of 4D scenes can support end-to-end training and closed-loop simulation for autonomous driving. Combining generative image editing with dynamic Gaussian representations enables multi-weather scene reconstruction, but weather-edited images often contain structural distortions. Directly fitting their appearance may propagate errors from teacher images into the reconstructed 4D scene, compromising the original scene structure and temporal continuity. To address these challenges, we propose IGSW, a two-stage framework that combines intrinsic-decoupled 4D Gaussian scene modeling with structure-preserving weather refinement. In Stage I, background Gaussian appearance is decomposed into weather-shared albedo and normals and weather-specific irradiance and residuals. Weather teacher images generated by a diffusion-based image editing model and intrinsic maps estimated by a diffusion-based inverse renderer provide feature-level soft supervision for stable structure and illumination changes. In Stage II, a structure-preservation gate combines semantic conflicts with cross-weather intrinsic discrepancies to suppress unreliable teacher regions. Per-Gaussian weather transport variables and target-weather branches then strengthen the desired weather appearance over the intrinsic-decoupled scene. Experiments on nuScenes and Waymo show that IGSW achieves the highest content similarity and semantic consistency and the lowest temporal error among the compared methods, while retaining pronounced weather-dependent illumination and atmosphere. The project page is available at https://akaxi6.github.io/IGSW/ .

arXiv (Cornell University)
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
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