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
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
The paper introduces a feed‑forward novel view synthesis method that works across heterogeneous cameras, such as perspective, fisheye, and panoramic types. It addresses tokenization ambiguity by combining token‑center relative Camera Positional Encodings with local raymaps and a projection‑aware 2D RoPE that aligns positional reasoning across different camera projections. Experiments on ScanNet++ show improved performance over camera‑conditioned baselines and zero‑shot generalization to panoramic views.
By Meng Wei, Cheng Zhang, Boying Li, Yihang Chen, Jianmin Zheng, Hamid Rezatofighi, Jianfei Cai
Projector-camera (ProCams) systems achieve active scene perception and controllable appearance manipulation via structured illumination, serving as a core infrastructure for spatial augmented reality, projection mapping, and surface reflectance acquisition. Existing inverse-rendering methods for ProCams deliver high-fidelity results but rely on time-consuming per-scene optimization, while mainstream feed-forward 3D reconstruction models produce baked appearance that cannot adapt to spatially varying projector illumination.
The paper addresses the lack of standardized evaluation for single‑view novel view synthesis by highlighting the importance of aligning a method’s reference frame with the ground‑truth camera pose. It proposes using traditional 2D‑to‑2D and 2D‑to‑3D image matching to align 3D reconstructions and restricts evaluation to co‑visible regions where a correct ground truth exists. Experiments show that with proper alignment, 3D Gaussian‑based methods reach state‑of‑the‑art performance, and a simple baseline using a video generator and geometry estimator matches specialized novel‑view synthesis models without task‑specific training.
By Yang-Che Tseng, Erqun Dong, Jeong-gi Kwak, Gopal Sharma, Shakiba Kheradmand, Stephan Garbin, Hossam Isack, Kwang Moo Yi
arXiv:2608.23140v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Achieving 360{\deg} coverage is critical for the visual perception systems of autonomous vehicles. Fisheye cameras offer a cost-effective solution by e...
By Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Beg\"um Altunbas, Jiayi Wang, Yan Xia, Maarten Bieshaar, Xinyu Huang, Daniel Cremers
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...
By Longfei Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Zehao Huang, Han Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang, Si Liu
arXiv:2610.19502v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatial intelligence requires scalable 3D environments that are both photorealistic and semantically grounded, yet existing indoor datasets are dominat...
By Yuanyuan Gao, Zhirui Liu, Yuning Gong, Yifei Liu, Yifan Zhan, Kuixuan Jiao, Xiaolong Zhou, Yifan Yang, Hongjie Zhang, Xue Yang, Dan Xu, Zhihang Zhong
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...
By Zijian Wu, Mingfeng Jiang, Zidian Lin, Ying Song, Ziqian Lu, Qun Wu, Hanjie Ma
arXiv:2610.34854v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When zooming between dual cameras on smartphones, prominent discontinuities in both geometric perspective and color rendition inevitably degrade the vi...
By Junjie Fan, Zhilu Zhang, Renlong Wu, Dazhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
Free-viewpoint 3D scene media is increasingly important for immersive applications, yet practical capture often suffers from severe view sparsity and motion blur. Although neural rendering has advanced sparse-view synthesis, existing blur-aware methods typically require substantial multi-view redundancy, accurate camera poses, or costly per-scene optimization.
arXiv:2608.22465v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-fidelity free-viewpoint video (FVV) and interactive rendering increasingly rely on explicit Gaussian representations, yet practical deployment rem...
By Xinhui Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Lebin Zhou, Wei Wang, Wei Jiang