ELoG-GS: Dual-Branch Gaussian Splatting with Luminance-Guided Enhancement for Extreme Low-light 3D Reconstruction
For researchers working on 3D reconstruction in challenging lighting conditions, this provides a practical pipeline with demonstrated gains on a standard benchmark.
This paper tackles 3D reconstruction from extreme low-light multi-view images. Their method, ELoG-GS, achieves a PSNR of 18.66 and SSIM of 0.6855 on the NTIRE 2026 challenge benchmark, outperforming baselines.
This paper presents our approach to the NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction Challenge (Track 1), which focuses on reconstructing high-quality 3D representations from degraded multi-view inputs. The challenge involves recovering geometrically consistent and photorealistic 3D scenes in extreme low-light environments. To address this task, we propose Extreme Low-light Optimized Gaussian Splatting (ELoG-GS), a robust low-light 3D reconstruction pipeline that integrates learning-based point cloud initialization and luminance-guided color enhancement for stable and photorealistic Gaussian Splatting. Our method incorporates both geometry-aware initialization and photometric adaptation strategies to improve reconstruction fidelity under challenging conditions. Extensive experiments on the NTIRE Track 1 benchmark demonstrate that our approach significantly improves reconstruction quality over the baselines, achieving superior visual fidelity and geometric consistency. The proposed method provides a practical solution for robust 3D reconstruction in real-world degraded scenarios. In the final testing phase, our method achieved a PSNR of 18.6626 and an SSIM of 0.6855 on the official platform leaderboard. Code is available at https://github.com/lyh120/FSGS_EAPGS.