GS-SFS: Joint Gaussian Splatting and Shape-From-Silhouette for Multiple Human Reconstruction in Large-Scale Sports Scenes

We introduce GS-SFS, a method that utilizes a camera array with wide baselines for high-quality multiple human mesh reconstruction in large-scale sports scenes. Traditional human reconstruction methods in sports scenes, such as Shape-from-Silhouette (SFS), struggle with sparse camera setups and small human targets, making it challenging to obtain complete and accurate human representations. Despite advances in differentiable rendering, including 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which can produce photorealistic novel-view renderings with dense inputs, accurate depiction of surfaces and generation of detailed meshes is still challenging. Our approach uniquely combines 3DGS's view synthesis with an optimized SFS method, thereby significantly enhancing the quality of multiperson mesh reconstruction in large-scale sports scenes. Specifically, we introduce body shape priors, including the human surface point clouds extracted through SFS and human silhouettes, to constrain 3DGS to a more accurate representation of the human body only. Then, we develop an improved mesh reconstruction method based on SFS, mainly by adding additional viewpoints through 3DGS and obtaining a more accurate surface to achieve higher-quality reconstruction models. We implement a high-density scene resampling strategy based on spherical sampling of human bounding boxes and render new perspectives using 3D Gaussian Splatting to create precise and dense multi-view human silhouettes. During mesh reconstruction, we integrate the human body's 2D Signed Distance Function (SDF) into the computation of the SFS's implicit surface field, resulting in smoother and more accurate surfaces. Moreover, we enhance mesh texture mapping by blending original and rendered images with different weights, preserving high-quality textures while compensating for missing details. The experimental results from real basketball game scenarios demonstrate the significant improvements of our approach for multiple human body model reconstruction in complex sports settings.