Packet-Loss Robust 3D Gaussian Compression via Atomic Packaging and GNN-based Error Concealment
For real-time neural rendering applications requiring robust network streaming, this work provides a practical solution to packet loss, though it is an incremental improvement over existing compression methods.
The paper addresses packet loss in 3D Gaussian Splatting streaming by proposing atomic packaging and GNN-based error concealment, limiting PSNR degradation to about 3 dB under 20% random packet loss compared to lossless HAC++.
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and recent compression schemes such as HAC++ enable high-fidelity real-time neural rendering, but their bitstreams are fragile under packet loss during network streaming. Existing compression methods often separate correlated anchor attributes into independent streams, so losing one packet can create attribute-inconsistent broken anchors and severe rendering artifacts. We propose a packet-loss robust 3DGS transmission and error concealment framework. On the encoder side, anchor-level atomic packaging jointly encapsulates all attributes of each anchor, converting corrupted-attribute failures into clean missing-anchor erasures. Stratified random grouping further disperses packet losses across the spatial domain to avoid large contiguous voids. On the decoder side, we formulate recovery as prior-aware attribute inpainting. A Context-Aware Residual Interpolation (CARI) branch uses hash-grid prior predictions and neighboring residuals to build a robust baseline, while a lightweight two-layer graph neural network with cross-attention over hash-grid priors refines high-frequency attribute residuals. Attribute-wise confidence control falls back to interpolation when learned predictions are unreliable. Experiments under 20 percent random packet loss on BungeeNeRF, Mip-NeRF 360, and Tanks and Temples show that the proposed method substantially improves over no-concealment transmission and limits average PSNR degradation to about 3 dB relative to the lossless HAC++ reference.