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From Splats to Silicon: Rethinking Computational Efficiency of 3DGS

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting with Axis-Shared Rasterization and Order-independent Transmittance

arXiv:2506. 07069v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for novel view synthesis, combining high-quality reconstruction with efficient rendering.

By Zhican Wang, Guanghui He, Lingjun Gao, Dantong Liu, Shell Xu Hu, Chen Zhang, Zhuoran Song, Nicholas Lane, Hongxiang Fan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

StreamSplat: Streaming Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

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 Computer Vision
Sep 22

GARO: Geometry-Aware Redundancy Optimization for Real-Time and High-Fidelity Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2609.23509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Novel view synthesis is a key task for dynamic scene reconstruction, where high rendering speed is essential for applications such as virtual reality....

By Huiwen Xue (School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University), Kaixing Zhao (School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zuheng Ming (L2TI, Universit\'e Sorbonne Paris Nord, EmboMind Research), Tingcheng Li (School of Electronic Information,Engineering, Suzhou University of Science,Technology)
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

F4Splat: Feed-Forward Predictive Densification for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

F4Splat introduces a feed‑forward predictive densification strategy for 3D Gaussian splatting that allocates Gaussians based on a densification‑score guided by spatial complexity and multi‑view overlap. The method predicts per‑region scores to estimate required Gaussian density, enabling explicit control over the total Gaussian budget without retraining. This adaptive allocation reduces redundancy in simple regions and minimizes duplicate Gaussians across overlapping views, yielding compact yet high‑quality 3D representations and superior novel‑view synthesis performance with fewer Gaussians.

By Injae Kim, Chaehyeon Kim, Minseong Bae, Minseok Joo, Hyunwoo J. Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

ReCoSplat: Online Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting via Render-and-Compare

ReCoSplat is an online feed‑forward Gaussian splatting model that can synthesize novel views from a stream of observations, handling both posed and unposed inputs and optionally using camera intrinsics. It introduces a Render‑and‑Compare module that renders the current scene from the viewpoint of the incoming observation and compares it to the observation, providing a stable conditioning signal to mitigate the mismatch caused by predicted camera poses. A hybrid KV‑cache compression strategy further reduces memory usage, enabling the model to process long sequences efficiently while achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on online view synthesis tasks.

By Freeman Cheng, Botao Ye, Xueting Li, Junqi You, Fangneng Zhan, Ming-Hsuan Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

MeshSplatBench: A Unified Benchmark for Triangle- and Mesh-Based Neural Rendering

MeshSplatBench is the first benchmark designed to evaluate triangle- and mesh-based neural rendering methods from native rendering to deployment in graphics engines such as Unity and Blender. It introduces a hierarchical deployment protocol with standard and dedicated options, and a structural audit for mesh splatting to assess topological and geometric integrity. The benchmark’s evaluations show that graphics engine deployment degrades quality, dedicated deployment preserves fidelity at a significant speed cost, and current mesh splatting methods lack sufficient connectivity for manifoldness.

By Kaixuan Zhang, Minxian Li, Mingwu Ren, Xiatian Zhu