arXiv:2609.02847v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Novel view synthesis from sparse inputs requires both geometric grounding from the observed views and generative priors of unobserved regions, motivati...
By Xiaolei Lang, Ze Kang, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang
arXiv:2608.22740v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting (G-3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for novel view synthesis undersparse-view settings. However, existing...
By Zeyang Bai, Yunpeng Wang, Yunbiao Wang, Jun Xiao
arXiv:2607. 00832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A single panorama captures the full visual sphere from one camera center, yet confines users to looking around in place without enabling true scene exploration.
By Zhenjia Li, Jinrang Jia, Yifeng Shi
GS‑VLA introduces a lightweight, plug‑and‑play framework that uses a 4 M‑parameter 3D‑Gaussian canonicalizer to adapt frozen Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) policies to viewpoint shifts without retraining the policy. By treating viewpoint changes as a localized novel‑view synthesis problem under a locality assumption, the method normalizes observations through a scene‑ and policy‑independent disocclusion task. Experiments on the LIBERO benchmark demonstrate that GS‑VLA recovers a large portion of performance lost due to camera displacement, improving results across different policy architectures, unseen task suites, and perturbation scales.
whyItMatters":"The approach offers a computationally efficient alternative to costly fine‑tuning or generative augmentation, enabling robust VLA deployment in real‑world settings where camera configurations may vary."
By Yechan Park, HyunJin Kim
arXiv:2606. 24353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bird's-eye view (BEV) perception fuses multi-camera images into a unified top-down representation for autonomous driving.
By Hojun Choi, Seulbin Hwang, Dae Jung Kim, Kisung Kim, Hyunjung Shim, Jinhan Lee
arXiv:2512. 02473v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models have attracted significant attention for their ability to produce high-fidelity future visual observations conditioned on past observations and navigation actions.
By Yuta Oshima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Yutaka Matsuo, Hiroki Furuta
arXiv:2607. 05522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a strong representation for real-time novel-view synthesis, but its standard training pipeline relies on point estimates and hand-tuned heuristics, providing no native uncertainty or principled complexity control.
By Gaoxiang Jia, Vikram Appia, Junzhou Huang, Xinlei Wang
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:2512. 05131v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active 3D reconstruction enables an agent to autonomously select viewpoints to efficiently obtain accurate and complete scene geometry, rather than passively reconstructing scenes from pre-collected images.
By Tianling Xu, Shengzhe Gan, Leslie Gu, Yuelei Li, Fangneng Zhan, Hanspeter Pfister
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 sequentially and the scene must be updated causally.
arXiv:2607. 08970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for VLMs largely assess single- or limited-view perception, leaving untested the core cognitive ability to integrate observations across viewpoints into a coherent, world-centric (allocentric) 3D mental model.
By Hantao Zhang, Jinru Sui, Ed Li, Dirk Bergemann, Zhuoran Yang
arXiv:2608.23206v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study spherical occupancy profiles-the ray-wise occupancy probability profiles P(r) = T(r) o(r) distilled from multi-view 3D Gaussian reconstruction...
By YiHsuan Tsai