Real-world spatial intelligence requires agents to understand scenes from continuous video streams, where objects move, persist, disappear, and reappear over time. While recent spatial foundation models have enabled generalizable feed-forward 3D reconstruction, most streaming methods remain geometry-centric and lack temporally consistent object-level understanding.
arXiv:2609.29836v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While 2D Vision Foundation Models offer a pathway to automate 3D semantic pseudo-labelling, translating these priors into robust 3D representations typ...
By Nitya Nanvani, Andras Palffy, Holger Caesar
Merging multiple 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes into a single unified Gaussian representation is essential for large-scale 3D mapping and long-term map management. Despite its importance, this area remains underexplored, and existing solutions exhibit several limitations.
Driving World Models (DWMs) have recently advanced rapidly with generative models, yet most existing methods mainly focus on conditional scene generation and lack explicit 3D scene understanding, lang...
WilLaGS introduces a unified framework that enhances 3D Gaussian Splatting for in-the-wild scenes by learning a continuous global appearance manifold with a β‑VAE and generating dynamic Tri‑Plane features for spatially‑varying local illumination. It also incorporates a self‑supervised perceptual masking mechanism using a Teacher‑Student EMA architecture to suppress transient artifacts and identify inconsistent regions. Experiments on multiple datasets show that WilLaGS achieves state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction quality and novel view synthesis while preserving real‑time rendering efficiency.
By Yuhao Bai, Qianqiu Tan, Lilong Chen, Huanhuan Lv, Lijun Chen
arXiv:2608.29003v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In dynamic and unstructured environments, conventional SLAM systems generally suffer from significant accuracy degeneration due to their static assum...
By Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Guo, Wenzhen Dong, Yun-Hui Liu, Charlie C. L. Wang, Yeung Yam
The paper introduces 4DGS-Fixer, an iterative refinement framework that uses a video diffusion model to enhance sparse-view 4D Gaussian Splatting for dynamic scene synthesis. It first fuses multi-view depth maps into dense point clouds for better geometric initialization, then applies a pretrained video restoration model to refine rendered sequences, providing pseudo-supervision for further refinement. Experiments on a benchmark dataset show the method outperforms existing baselines, achieving nearly a 2 dB PSNR improvement.
By Haitao Huang, Shenghao Zhao, Boyuan Tian, Shin-Fang Chng, Songlin Yang, Sheila Lim, Huangying Zhan, Yi Xu, Anyi Rao, Frank Guan
arXiv:2604. 09877v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: At the intersection of computer vision and robotic perception, 4D reconstruction of dynamic scenes connects low-level geometric sensing with high-level semantic understanding.
By Yiru Yang, Zhuojie Wu, Nishant Kumar Singh, Max Schulthess
Dream4D is a new framework for generating spatiotemporally coherent 4D content. It uses a two‑stage pipeline: first, few‑shot learning predicts optimal camera trajectories from a single image; second, a pose‑conditioned diffusion process creates geometrically consistent multi‑view sequences that are converted into a persistent 4D representation. The method uniquely combines rich temporal priors from video diffusion models with geometric awareness from reconstruction models, achieving higher quality metrics such as mPSNR and mSSIM compared to existing approaches.
By Xiaoyan Liu, Kangrui Li, Jiaxin Liu, Yuehao Song, Yujie Xing
arXiv:2603.09632v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for novel view synthesis, subsequently extending into numerous spatial AI ap...
By Yueen Ma, Zenglin Xu, Irwin King
PointGauss is a 3D-native framework that performs semantic parsing and instance segmentation on 3D Gaussian splatting representations by treating Gaussian primitives as unstructured point sets and extracting scale‑invariant geometric features with Point Transformer V3. It introduces an adaptive region‑of‑interest cropping strategy and an instance‑aware distance‑constrained rasterization pipeline to enable scalable, view‑consistent pixel‑level projections. The authors also release SplatSeg‑360, a cross‑scale benchmark with 32 complex scenes and over 6,300 aligned 2D‑3D masks, and show that PointGauss achieves real‑time performance with state‑of‑the‑art 3D‑mIoU (~90%) and 2D‑mIoU (~80%) scores.
By Wentao Sun, Yiping Chen, John S. Zelek, Jonathan Li
GS‑Net is a lightweight plug‑and‑play module that expands sparse Structure‑from‑Motion point clouds into dense Gaussian primitives, enabling cross‑sensor view synthesis for autonomous driving. It learns a generalizable initialization for 3D Gaussian Splatting, improving rendering quality for both interpolated and extrapolated camera viewpoints. The authors introduce CARLA‑NVS, a benchmark with 12 uniformly spaced cameras, and show that GS‑Net outperforms standard 3DGS by 2.08 dB PSNR on interpolated views and 1.86 dB on extrapolated views while being 50× faster to initialize.
By Yichen Zhang, Zihan Wang, Jiali Han, Peilin Li, Jiaxun Zhang, Jianqiang Wang, Lei He, Keqiang Li