Projection-Volume Fidelity Divergence: Diagnosing and Controlling Optimization Drift in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Tomography
Sparse-view computed tomography is a severely ill-posed inverse problem, where recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods offer an efficient explicit representation for tomographic reconstruction. However, we find that projection-domain optimization can be misleading in this setting: the rendered projections may continue to improve while the reconstructed volume deteriorates. We identify this failure mode as Projection-Volume Fidelity Divergence (PVFD), a representation-level optimization drift caused by anisotropic Gaussian deformation and view-specific primitive co-adaptation under sparse Radon constraints. To characterize this behavior, we introduce geometry- and volume-level diagnostics that measure needle-like Gaussian degeneration and the stability of the voxelized density field. Based on these observations, we propose LADES, a ground-truth-free optimization controller for sparse-view Gaussian tomography. LADES combines Linearly Annealed Dropout, which applies strong stochastic masking in early training to disrupt premature primitive co-adaptation and gradually restores full capacity for structural consolidation, with Structure-Aware Early Stopping, which terminates densification according to the saturation of Gaussian population growth rather than validation PSNR. Experiments on sparse-view CT reconstruction show that LADES improves volumetric fidelity, suppresses structural degeneration, and substantially reduces training time while maintaining competitive projection accuracy. These results suggest that robust Gaussian-based tomography requires monitoring and controlling volumetric structure, rather than optimizing projection fit alone.
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