arXiv:2609.10376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sparse-view X-ray 3D reconstruction is essential for reducing radiation exposure, but recovering a density field from a handful of X-ray projections is...
By Pranav Poudel, Florence Dell'Aniello Picard, Nairouz Shehata, Fr\'ed\'eric Lavoie, Herve Lombaert
Generating a 3D dental volume from a single panoramic radiograph (PXR) could provide a low-radiation alternative to Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), but the problem is highly underdetermined: panoramic acquisition integrates 3D attenuation along curved X-ray paths into a 2D image, leaving depth-resolved anatomy unobserved. Existing implicit and generative approaches often produce oversmoothed geometry or anatomically inconsistent hallucinations, lacking geometry-driven supervision and relying on smooth representations unable to precisely localize sharp anatomical boundaries.
FaCT-GS is a new framework that accelerates Gaussian Splatting (GS) for X‑ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction. By optimizing voxelization and rasterization pipelines, it achieves speeds more than four times faster than the current state‑of‑the‑art GS methods on 512×512 projections and over thirteen times faster on 2k projections. The improved voxelization also allows quick fitting of Gaussians to existing volumes, providing a compressed representation or a warm‑start prior for reconstruction.
By Pawel Tomasz Pieta, Rasmus Juul Pedersen, Sina Borgi, Jakob Sauer J{\o}rgensen, Jens Wenzel Andreasen, Vedrana Andersen Dahl
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.
The paper introduces LiftXR, a geometry‑guided framework that first reconstructs a 3D anatomical layout from bi‑planar X‑ray images and then uses this layout to guide CT volume reconstruction. An anatomical parser refines the layout by analyzing the reconstructed CT, enabling region‑specific intensity calibration. Experiments on two public datasets show LiftXR surpasses recent X‑ray‑to‑CT methods and improves downstream segmentation performance.
By Yifei Wu, Yicheng Wu, Qiang Ma, Qi Chen, Renyang Gu, Xinyu Liu, Yongsheng Pan, Yong Xia
The paper introduces $K$-NeAS, a scalable neural architecture for multi-material CT reconstruction that replaces separate material networks with a shared latent backbone and a differentiable $K$-material soft selector. It automates attenuation bounds using a Gaussian Mixture Model and adds a scheduled auxiliary floater loss to reduce geometric hallucinations in sparse-view settings. Evaluated on four clinical CBCT datasets, $K$-NeAS achieves higher 3D volumetric fidelity—up to a 1.88 dB PSNR gain over a single-material baseline—and shows improved robustness under extreme sparsity, outperforming baselines by up to 1.17 dB.
By Daksh K. Shah, Emmanouil Nikolakakis, Razvan Marinescu
arXiv:2609.12343v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feed-forward Gaussian splatting models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) objects from a few two-dimen...
By Yunsu Jeong, Hyuk Heo, Youngsang Kwak, Jaehwa Kwak, Il Yong Chun
arXiv:2607. 04661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing 3D scene structures from sparse, low-overlap observations remains a fundamental challenge in autonomous driving.
By Guoqing Wang, Pin Tang, Xiangxuan Ren, Liping Hou, Chao Ma
arXiv:2606. 02639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify and resolve a previously unreported failure mode in TensoRF when applied to X-ray attenuation fields: the default density shift of -10, originally introduced for RGB scene reconstruction, suppresses density gradients and prevents sparse-view medical reconstruction regardless of learning rate or regularization strategy.
By Spoorthi M, Suja Palaniswamy
arXiv:2312. 00206v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently enabled real-time rendering of unbounded 3D scenes for novel view synthesis.
By Haolin Xiong, Sairisheek Muttukuru, Hanyuan Xiao, Rishi Upadhyay, Pradyumna Chari, Yajie Zhao, Achuta Kadambi
CoMVS‑GS is a surface‑reconstruction framework that fuses Multi‑View Stereo (MVS) with 3D Gaussian splatting. It initializes Gaussian primitives from dense MVS points, uses PatchMatch‑3DGS mutual supervision to refine depths and normals, and replaces voxel‑based meshing with a Delaunay graph‑cut pipeline. Experiments on DTU, GauU‑Scene V2, and MatrixCity demonstrate competitive object‑level results and improved geometric accuracy and mesh compactness in outdoor scenes while preserving high rendering quality.
The paper introduces SVRecon, a generalizable neural surface reconstruction framework that uses sparse volumetric representations to achieve high-resolution 3D reconstruction. It employs a two-stage architecture: first predicting occupied voxels with an occupancy network, then rendering only within those regions using specialized sparse algorithms. This approach allows reconstruction at resolutions up to 512³ on 32 GB hardware, producing smoother and more precise surfaces, especially in sparse-view scenarios.
By Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Ming Xu, Hieu Le, Pascal Fua