Repository analysis: Document CityGaussian functionality and identify 8 critical bugs

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Comprehensive analysis of the CityGaussian large-scale 3D reconstruction framework, documenting architecture, identifying critical bugs, and providing fix recommendations.

Repository Functionality

CityGaussian implements ECCV 2024/ICLR 2025 papers for large-scale urban scene reconstruction using Gaussian Splatting:

• Scale: 5-10M Gaussians, 500m+ scenes, multi-GPU distributed training
• Architecture: Modular pipeline with 15+ dataset parsers, 30+ renderers, 10+ model variants
• Features: Real-time rendering, geometric evaluation, mesh extraction, appearance optimization

Critical Bugs Identified (8)

🔴 Training Crashes (3)

1. Division by zero in gradient normalization (gaussian_splatting.py:404)

# Current - crashes when visibility_filter is empty
grad_norm_avg_final / grad_norm_avg  # ZeroDivisionError

# Fix: Add epsilon clamp
grad_norm_avg_safe = torch.clamp(grad_norm_avg, min=1e-10)

2. Index out of bounds in density controller (vanilla_density_controller.py:198)

# Current - crashes after Gaussian cloning
padded_grad[:grads.shape[0]] = grads.squeeze()  # IndexError

# Fix: Bounds checking
valid_size = min(grads.shape[0], n_init_points)
padded_grad[:valid_size] = grads.squeeze()[:valid_size]

3. SH channel indexing error (vanilla_gaussian.py:116)

# Current - incorrect indexing
shs[:, 3:, 1:] = 0.0  # RGB only has 3 channels

# Fix: Index all channels
shs[:, :, 1:] = 0.0

🟠 Functionality Issues (3)

4. Tensor type error - torch.zeros(N * tensor) requires int(tensor.sum())
5. RGBA uint8 failure - Missing alpha blending in uint8 code path
6. Distributed data bias - Uneven splitting causes duplicate training samples

🟡 Code Quality (2)

7. Bare except clause - Masks MemoryError/KeyboardInterrupt
8. Thread safety - Async caching accesses shared state without locks

Documentation

• SUMMARY.md: Quick reference (bilingual)
• REPOSITORY_ANALYSIS.md: Full English analysis (20KB)
• REPOSITORY_ANALYSIS_CN.md: Full Chinese analysis (18KB)

Each bug includes file location, impact analysis, and fix recommendation with code examples.

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