New research advances 3D Gaussian splatting for efficiency and applications
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Recent research in 3D Gaussian splatting is exploring methods for efficient representation and manipulation of complex 3D scenes. Papers are introducing techniques for camera-agnostic pruning, hierarchical context aggregation, and object selection from sparse views. Additionally, advancements are being made in dynamic scene reconstruction, environment-aware beamforming for communications, and streaming 3D Gaussian splatting for online scenarios.
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Advances in 3D Gaussian splatting techniques are improving efficiency and enabling new applications in areas like communication systems and interactive 3D scene editing.
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Multiple research papers published on arXiv and Hugging Face detailing new methods and applications for 3D Gaussian Splatting.
3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient novel view synthesis, but accurate mesh reconstruction remains difficult in weakly observed and occluded regions, where Gaussian primitives may grow into unstable or geometrically inconsistent structures. We propose CoMVS-GS, a general surf…
arXiv:2603.21933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The pruning of 3D Gaussian splats is essential for reducing their complexity to enable efficient storage, transmission, and downstream processing. However, most of the existing pruning strategies depend on camera parameter…
arXiv:2608.14136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Octree-based anchor Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a scalable representation for city-scale novel view synthesis, where multi-level anchors adaptively capture scene content from coarse building structures to fine architectural …
Free-viewpoint 3D scene media is increasingly important for immersive applications, yet practical capture often suffers from severe view sparsity and motion blur. Although neural rendering has advanced sparse-view synthesis, existing blur-aware methods typically require substanti…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Yijie Bian, Wei Guo, Zixin Wang, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief·
arXiv:2608.05896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Beamforming plays a key role in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. However, conventional beamforming design normally requires accurate instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and iterative optimizatio…
Beamforming plays a key role in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. However, conventional beamforming design normally requires accurate instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and iterative optimization, which incur substantial pilot overhead and co…
Dense colored LiDAR maps provide accurate city-scale geometry, but lifting them into 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) retains millions of primitives, making the resulting models costly to store, transmit, render, and adapt. Aggressive primitive reduction alleviates this burden, but c…
4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) excels in dynamic 3D reconstruction and real-time novel view synthesis via efficient 4D Gaussian representations and parallelizable rendering. However, existing 4DGS approaches rely on a single polynomial to model motion, which limits performance in c…
Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient novel-view synthesis without per-scene optimization, but most existing methods assume a fixed set of context views and process them jointly. This limits their applicability to online scenarios where calibrated views arrive sequ…
Dynamic 4D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation for dynamic novel view synthesis through explicit scene modeling and real-time rendering. However, existing methods typically require dense multi-view videos for sufficient geometric constraints, making capt…
Selecting a complete 3D object from a reconstructed scene with minimal user effort is essential for practical scene editing and embodied interaction. Existing 3DGS-based methods either retrain the Gaussian representation to embed per-object labels, or build dense multi-view SAM o…
arXiv:2603.21064v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pose-free feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has opened a new frontier for rapid 3D modeling, enabling high-quality Gaussian representations to be generated from uncalibrated multi-view images in a single forward pass. Th…
arXiv:2608.18388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Depth Anything V4 (DAV4), a framework for dynamic 4D scene reconstruction from monocular video. Our key contribution is the application of Riemannian Flow Matching (RFM) to 4D Gaussian Splatting parameters, defining proba…
arXiv:2608.18413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient novel view synthesis, but accurate mesh reconstruction remains difficult in weakly observed and occluded regions, where Gaussian primitives may grow into unstable or geometrically inconsistent…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Vu Trung Nghia Nguyen, Yuchen Wang, Kyung Chul Lee, Kevin C. Zhou·
arXiv:2608.18285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D scene representation techniques such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian splatting have made substantial progress in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality renderings from arbitrary view angles. More recently, …
arXiv:2608.17535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneously reconstructing and understanding 3D environments is essential for embodied agents. Toward this goal, feed-forward semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) efficiently constructs semantic scene representations from sparse…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Hao Qin, Yukai Sun, Luyuan Chen, Mengxu Lu, Feng Zhang, Ming Kong, Zhenhong Du, Qiang Zhu·
arXiv:2608.17447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development and adoption of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), the need for effective copyright protection has become increasingly critical. Existing watermarking techniques for 3DGS mainly focus on protecting rendered ima…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Liang Hong, Jiaxin Wei, Simon Schaefer, Stefan Leutenegger, Jaehyung Jung·
arXiv:2608.14713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots operating in dark or poorly lit environments rely on onboard lights, which often produce uneven illumination that degrades downstream perception tasks. Prior approaches based on 2D image enhancement lack reliable supervisio…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Yang Luo, Yan Gong, Yongsheng Gao, Jie Zhao·
arXiv:2608.15785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel-view synthesis but remains limited on GPUs at high resolutions. Through a stage-wise Roofline characterization, we identify two distinct hardware bottlenecks: global memory traffi…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Bin Ren, Qi Ma, Yue Li, Zongyan Han, Yidi Li, Yuqian Fu, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Theo Gevers, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan·
arXiv:2608.15651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) represents 3D content with anisotropic primitives that jointly encode geometry and appearance. Fixed-budget encoders consume sampled observations of Gaussian assets, so the same object may be observed th…
arXiv:2608.13502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Snapshot Compressive Imaging (SCI) offers an efficient solution for high-speed video acquisition and, under exposure-time camera--scene relative motion, multi-view scene capture by compressing temporal or spatial information into a …
arXiv:2608.12825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent query-based feed-forward 3DGS methods represent a scene using learnable queries, each aggregating multi-view evidence and decoding a group of Gaussians. Ideally, different queries should specialize in coherent local regions o…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Zhongtao Wang, Huishan Au, Yilong Li, Mai Su, Haojie Jin, Yisong Chen, Meng Gai, Fei Zhu, Guoping Wang·
arXiv:2605.13794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale 3D Gaussian Splatting underpins digital twins, simulation, and aerial mapping, yet city-scale training remains computationally expensive even with multi-GPU execution because every iteration must preprocess, co…
arXiv:2601.04348v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting have allowed for real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis. Nonetheless, these models have significant storage requirements for large and medium-sized scenes, hindering their deployme…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Huaiyuan Weng, Chul Min Yeum, Su-Min Kang·
arXiv:2608.10938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite substantial progress in visual localization, from scene coordinate regression to direct camera pose regression, achieving both robust generalization and high accuracy remain challenging. This study introduces GS-CPE (Gaussia…
arXiv:2608.10057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce LEGO for advanced open-vocabulary scene understanding. Beyond basic concept recognition, its core innovation lies in capturing the intrinsic semantic hierarchies within the scene, such as the "flowerpot -> bouquet -> bu…
arXiv:2608.10345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Free-viewpoint 3D scene media is increasingly important for immersive applications, yet practical capture often suffers from severe view sparsity and motion blur. Although neural rendering has advanced sparse-view synthesis, existin…
arXiv:2608.10712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D scene reconstruction, modeling, and rendering are highly relevant for numerous tasks, and 3D Gaussian splatting has become a standard choice in this context. Its feed-forward variants provide fast reconstruction from sparse input…
arXiv:2608.11150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced open vocabulary scene understanding, existing methods remain confined to explicit queries. They struggle to interpret implicit intents, complex spatial constraints, and commonsense rea…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Jinhua Cui, Anhong Wang, Kai Hu, Donghan Bu, Peihao Li, Tammam Tillo, Hao Jing, Shiao Xu·
arXiv:2608.08659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) assumes that every input image faithfully samples scene radiance. However, mixed-quality JPEG images violate this assumption because compression-induced blocking and ringing artifacts can corrup…
arXiv:2608.08585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event cameras, with high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and asynchronous sensing characteristics, have shown great potential for dense 3D reconstruction. Traditional reconstruction methods based on off-the-shelf pose estim…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Weiquan Wang, Feifei Shao, Lin Li, Zhen Wang, Fengda Zhang, Jun Xiao, Long Chen·
arXiv:2608.07937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FlexSplat, a feed-forward framework for novel view synthesis (NVS) from uncalibrated, object-centric multi-view image collections. A recent line of query-based methods reconstructs a compact set of 3D Gaussians by treatin…
arXiv:2608.07144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient and generalizable 3D reconstruction, but current feed-forward 3DGS methods for scene understanding remain largely category-oriented. In contrast, instance-aware 3DGS method…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Puyuan Zhang, Jianming Huang, Wenkai Ye, Wei Dong·
arXiv:2608.05704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense colored LiDAR maps provide accurate city-scale geometry, but lifting them into 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) retains millions of primitives, making the resulting models costly to store, transmit, render, and adapt. Aggressive p…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Seunghyeon Song, Joo Chan Lee, Chanung Park, Jun Young Jeong, Minseo Lee, Eunbyung Park, Jong Hwan Ko·
arXiv:2608.04581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) enable high-fidelity, real-time spatiotemporal rendering, but expose a fundamental trade-off between motion expressiveness and storage efficiency. While anchor-based designs achieve co…
arXiv:2608.04560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting embeds open-vocabulary language features into 3D Gaussian Splatting, providing an efficient explicit representation for text-driven 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods are limited to indo…
arXiv:2608.03279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a dominant representation for real-time novel view synthesis (NVS), yet its storage footprint makes compression indispensable for practical deployment. 3DGS training and compression introduce …
arXiv:2608.01588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic 4D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation for dynamic novel view synthesis through explicit scene modeling and real-time rendering. However, existing methods typically require dense multi-view videos f…
arXiv:2608.01178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DynActiveGS, a dynamic-aware active reconstruction framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for autonomous exploration in dynamic environments. The framework incrementally reconstructs a 3D Gaussian scene represent…
arXiv:2603.25129v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While 3D Vision Foundation Models (3DVFMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in visual geometry estimation, their direct application to generalizable novel view synthesis (NVS) remains challenging. In this pape…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Kilian Northoff, Mateo de Mayo, Daniel Cremers·
arXiv:2608.00931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides efficient rendering of photo-realistic scenes, but its heavy preprocessing and training steps make it a poor fit for applications that require real-time reconstruction in robotics or XR. This …
arXiv:2608.02191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although image deraining has advanced substantially, existing methods mainly focus on 2D image restoration. As spatial intelligence applications such as embodied AI and autonomous driving continue to emerge, reconstructing clean 3D …
arXiv:2608.02145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose UniqueSplat, a view-conditioned feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting model to reconstruct customized 3D radiance fields for each view query. Existing feed-forward methods such as pixelSplat and MVSplat aim to…
arXiv:2608.01958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) excels in dynamic 3D reconstruction and real-time novel view synthesis via efficient 4D Gaussian representations and parallelizable rendering. However, existing 4DGS approaches rely on a single polynomia…
arXiv:2608.01659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient novel-view synthesis without per-scene optimization, but most existing methods assume a fixed set of context views and process them jointly. This limits their applicability to onl…
arXiv:2608.01492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting a complete 3D object from a reconstructed scene with minimal user effort is essential for practical scene editing and embodied interaction. Existing 3DGS-based methods either retrain the Gaussian representation to embed pe…
arXiv:2607.29284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) can render dynamic scenes photorealistically. However, with limited viewpoint coverage, some spatiotemporal regions remain sparsely observed, leading to artifacts, particularly in scenes with large motio…
