EviSplat: Preserving Multi-View Evidence in 3D Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

Sungho Moon, Kota Shimomura, Junwoo Park, Wonhyeok Choi, Seunghun Lee +2

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding enables object localization and segmentation from free-form text queries without a fixed category vocabulary. Many recent methods build on 3D Gaussian Splatting and consolidate multi-view observations, such as masked crops from individual views, into language features or compact object descriptors before the query is known. However, observations of the same object vary across viewpoints and are not equally informative: some reveal cues relevant to a particular query, whereas others provide incomplete or misleading evidence. Pre-query consolidation can therefore suppress cues on which a later query depends. We introduce EviSplat, which preserves individual observation features as evidence for later text queries. EviSplat retains individual observation features within class-agnostic 3D instances that represent objects, object parts, or background regions. It also learns, for each Gaussian, a distribution describing which visual appearances its observations support. Given a text query, EviSplat scores each instance using its most relevant observations. It then computes a score for each Gaussian by combining instance-level relevance with locally…