The paper introduces Reflection-aware Gaussian Splatting (RGS), a physically-based deferred rendering framework that improves novel view synthesis for reflective objects. RGS leverages a powerful 3D foundation model to provide a strong geometric prior and employs cross-view shape consistency regularization to prevent surface collapse and reduce geometric hollows. Additionally, a reflection-aware densification strategy captures specular variations across views, resulting in higher-quality renderings of reflective objects.
arXiv:2609.36969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a state-of-the-art technique for 3D scene rendering, offering high efficiency and excellent visual quality. However, be...
arXiv:2603. 07664v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reflective appearance, especially strong and typically near-field specular reflections, poses a fundamental challenge for accurate surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis.
arXiv:2606. 05124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: After the success of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for novel view synthesis, many works have explored how to also use it for geometric surface representation.
Reflections from shiny objects and glass facades naturally extend the field of view of a camera, capturing the surrounding environment without the need to pan the camera or acquire a full panorama. We propose PanoLess, a Gaussian-splat-based framework that reconstructs the surrounding environment as a distant illumination map from images captured on only one side of a reflective surface.
OctreeSplat introduces a hierarchical octree-guided feed‑forward Gaussian splatting method that extracts multi‑view features and geometric priors from a frozen visual foundation model. By constructing a hierarchical octree and predicting densification scores, it allocates Gaussian primitives at spatially varying densities, improving depth rendering and surface reconstruction. The approach requires only 76 million additional parameters and 35 GPU‑hours to train, and demonstrates competitive RGB view synthesis, depth synthesis, and surface reconstruction on Replica, TUM, Tanks and Temples, and DTU datasets while reducing the number of Gaussian primitives needed.
The paper introduces a new framework that uses 2D Gaussian Splatting to capture view‑dependent specular effects, especially near‑field reflections, by directly leveraging observable environment information in input images. It combines a hybrid reflection appearance representation with view‑dependent specular modeling, and demonstrates improved rendering quality and geometric accuracy on public benchmarks and a newly curated near‑field reflection dataset.
arXiv:2606. 29379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian splatting (GS) has garnered significant attention in VR/AR and digital content creation due to its explicit parameterization and efficient rendering capabilities.
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.
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...
The paper introduces Iterative Gaussian Synopsis, a top‑down unfolding framework that generates compact, progressive levels of detail for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Starting from a full‑resolution 3DGS model, it iteratively prunes Gaussian primitives using a learnable mask, building a multi‑level hierarchy that preserves visual quality while reducing storage. The method combines hierarchical spatial grids with a shared Anchor Codebook to capture global structure and local details, enabling efficient, level‑specific rendering with minimal data overhead.
arXiv:2511.16030v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient, high-fidelity novel view synthesis, yet its performance degrades severely under sparse-view supervi...
arXiv:2609.01516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D reconstruction and novel-view synthesis, scenarios with limited input views often lead to poor...