arXiv Computer Vision

Windfoil: Closed-Form Coverage for Real-Time and Differentiable Vector Graphics

Windfoil is a GPU-friendly algorithm that unifies rasterisation and differentiable vector graphics by evaluating the box-filtered winding number of quadratic Bézier contours in closed form. Implemented in WebGPU, it runs across diverse environments—from web browsers on consumer laptops to high-resolution print media—and supports real-time 2D rendering, high‑resolution rasterisation, and differentiable rendering. Compared to production engines like Skia and game‑oriented rasterisers such as Slug, Windfoil achieves closer fidelity to a reference coverage while maintaining comparable performance, and it outperforms DiffVG and Bézier Splatting in reconstruction quality at a fraction of the per‑step cost, scaling to tens of thousands of shapes at interactive rates.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

From Splats to Silicon: Rethinking Computational Efficiency of 3DGS

arXiv:2609.06157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) represents scenes with explicit primitives and supports real-time novel-view synthesis, yet its system efficiency varies...

By Minnan Pei, Qiwei Dong, Yihan Zhou, Gang Li, Yuchen Zhu, Wenju Zhao, Zhongtian Long, Siting Wang, Peisong Wang, Jian Cheng
arXiv Computer Vision
6d 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
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
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Memory-efficient GPU pipelines for real-time non-line-of-sight reconstruction

The paper presents memory‑efficient GPU pipelines that accelerate real‑time non‑line‑of‑sight (NLOS) reconstruction. By redesigning two wave‑based algorithms—f‑k migration and phasor‑fields—with fused kernels, warp‑level photon binning, batched transforms, CUDA graph replay, and selective FP16 storage, the authors achieve up to 42× speed‑ups over a reference streaming pipeline and 14× over the fastest published GPU baseline while reducing memory usage to as little as 2.5%. The work also includes an ablation study of implementation choices and introduces three denoising strategies that leverage the increased frame budget for future NLOS video processing.

By Alfonso L\'opez-Ruiz, Diego Royo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Compact Neural Appearance Models for Efficient Gaussian Splatting

The paper introduces a compact neural appearance model for 3D Gaussian Splatting that replaces traditional low‑order spherical harmonics (SH) with a tiny shared MLP decoding per‑primitive latent codes. It compares SH with recent spherical appearance models, integrating all into a unified CUDA rasterizer and WebGL viewer, and demonstrates that the new neural representation reduces per‑primitive appearance storage from 192 to 28 bytes, speeds optimization by 1.3×, and improves reconstruction quality. The study also analyzes how different appearance parametrizations affect geometry recovery and the handling of non‑static scene content.

By Florian Hahlbohm, Jorge Condor, Linus Franke, Martin Eisemann, Marcus Magnor