arxivcs.CV2026-06-28
RAGA: Real Time Ray Traced Gaussian Shadow Casting for 3DGS Avatar-Scene Interaction
Aymen Mir, Riza Alp Guler, Jian Wang, Peter Wonka, Bing Zhou, Gerard Pons-Moll
We study the problem of physically plausible shadow casting when animating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) avatars, either individually or in multi-avatar and object-interaction scenarios, within existing 3DGS scenes. In contrast to prior methods that rely on binary hit tests and me…