arXiv Computer Vision

SCION: Scene Composition with Instanced Neural Primitives

SCION introduces a hierarchical compositional scene representation that replaces independent Gaussians with a compact vocabulary of reusable primitives and lightweight world-space instances. By jointly optimizing discrete and continuous scene parameters, SCION achieves high-quality reconstructions at a small size (≈1.2 MB) and outperforms existing Gaussian compression methods in rate‑distortion. The approach enables instance‑level editing and animation without retraining, demonstrating that neural scene representations can discover reusable parts instead of memorizing each element separately.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

WorldSculpt: Generating Compositional Worlds from Grounded Videos

WorldSculpt presents a method for generating compositional 3D representations of cluttered scenes with hundreds of objects by adapting a single-object 3D generative prior to multi-view observations. The approach, built on Pixal3D with a multi-view conditioning pathway, can generalize to highly occluded scenes without scene-level training. The authors also introduce the UE-MeshyScene benchmark and demonstrate that their method outperforms prior approaches across various evaluation settings, including converting existing 3DGS worlds into compositional mesh scenes.

By Muyao Niu, Jixuan He, Ruihan Yu, Lian Fu, Yonghao Yu, Zheng-Hui Huang, Yifan Zhan, Fengbo Lan, Yongtao Ge, Yinqiang Zheng, Kaipeng Zhang, Zhixiang Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Compact Feed-Forward 3D Gaussians via Saliency-Guided Primitive Merging

The paper introduces a structure‑aware merging pipeline that consolidates per‑pixel 3D Gaussian primitives from any feed‑forward reconstruction method into a compact, content‑adaptive Gaussian set. By grouping spatially coherent Gaussians with adaptive superpixel segmentation guided by a saliency map, compressing clusters via a learned encoder, and merging representations across views using geometric overlap and feature similarity, the method reduces the number of Gaussians to about one‑twentieth of the original while preserving visual quality. A level‑of‑detail decoder allows controllable resolution, and the pipeline operates as a backbone‑agnostic post‑processing module, improving robustness and rendering efficiency.

By Tim-Felix Fassch, Jochen Kall, Cyrill Stachniss
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

WilLaGS: Latent-Conditional 3D Appearance Fields for Robust Gaussian Splatting In-the-Wild

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 Computer Vision
Sep 3

InceptionGS: Generative Bootstrapping for Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting under Unstructured View Sampling

InceptionGS is a method that improves large‑scale Gaussian splatting for scenes captured with unstructured view sampling. It starts from an initial Gaussian splatting and selectively repairs areas affected by sparse views by integrating scene‑ and view‑adaptive generative priors, while keeping well‑covered regions unchanged. Experiments on real‑world scenes show that this hybrid reconstruction‑generation approach yields higher‑fidelity results than existing methods.

By Tianheng Lu, Guangyu Wang, Ruqi Huang, Lu Fang