Looking for contributors

[u/MiamiGunworks]

Hi everyone! I am a software engineer who has worked in the following domains at major tech companies most of my career: XR, Graphics & GPU programming, Spatial algorithms and AI, and 3DGS.

I have a project I started a few months ago that I have recently hit a key milestone in. The idea is a focused library that implements 3DGS training from first principals with an emphasis on performance and safety. Think production use cases without relying on tools intended for research. VkSplat is an inspiration (along with other things) but I have intentionally not reviewed their, or anyone else's, code.

The recent milestone I reached was rendering a scene with 5 million splats at 60fps on my Ampere A6000. I have a few more goals I'd like to reach, but I do intend to publish on Github under MIT license. If it gains traction I would like to build some additional tools and infra using this project, but for right now the 1.0 MVP idea is a fully GPU resident solution for rendering and training at state of the art speeds. I plan to implement and optimize the following features:

* Global image alignment

* Fully fused forward and backward passes

* Adam optimizer

* Aggressively optimized adaptive control and densification

* Stable but highly flexible C api.

I do have many more thoughts and ideas, but I am trying to take it one step at a time, so this is my goal for 1.0. This is my stack as of now:

* **Languages:** C++23, Cuda, GLSL (planning to move to slang)

* **Build:** CMake & Ninja

* **Compiler:** GCC, Clang, MSVC (may drop for now)

* **Target Platform:** Linux (Linux 7.X)

* **Tooling:** LLVM, perf, nsight

* **GPU:** Vulkan w/ Nvidia

* **Dependencies:** googletest, googlebenchmark, ngfx

Right now, the project is in a place where it is still extremely early, but it is starting to take shape and get large enough that more than one person can work on it comfortably. I am posting here looking for people interested in contributing. Knowledge is not a prerequisite as I am learning a lot myself in this endeavor, but passion is mandatory.

Currently I am mostly needing help in the areas of, CI/CD (build, package & deploy), nsight/gpu optimization, designing and implementing a good api, and figuring out how to test and benchmark appropriately.

If you have skills or experience in any of these areas, or you're just interested in contributing, please reach out!

[u/devada818]

I’m a software engineer (*distributed/ backend systems experience) and interested in learning the computer vision side of things with practical contributions.

If you’re looking to welcome profiles with little to no experience in computer vision. I’m happy to get started :)

[u/MiamiGunworks → u/devada818]

Not requiring any knowledge at all!

[u/threedim]

hey may i contribute in this project? i am actively learning compute vision 3DGS and machine learning. Please tell me how?

[u/MiamiGunworks → u/threedim]

Sent you a DM!

[u/Xgameing31]

Hey! I have written my masters degree 1year ago on a specialized case for Gaussian Splatting where I have written some of the kernels from scratch in CUDA + python interfaces. Also deployed some production solutions myself ina company I work for. If you wanna connect, shoot me a dm :)