arXiv:2609.16772v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A Digital Surface Model (DSM) is a fundamental geospatial data product for representing the elevation of the Earth's surface. Recently, 3D Gaussian Spl...
By Jie Yang, Yingdong Pi, Qiyan Luo, Xiaoyu Wang, Lekang Wen, Mi Wang
arXiv:2606.27223v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Gaussian Splatting has been recently explored for satellite 3D reconstruction, demonstrating flexibility and efficiency in representing radiometric...
By Jiyong Kim, Shuang Song, Rongjun Qin
Gaussian Splatting has been recently explored for satellite 3D reconstruction, demonstrating flexibility and efficiency in representing radiometrically diverse satellite scenes. However, the limited top viewpoint of satellite imagery results in insufficient supervision on building facades, leaving surface holes and degraded visual fidelity.
arXiv:2609.25578v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban-scale 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery supports disaster response, city monitoring, and geospatial digital twins, yet neural rendering me...
By Wentao Sun, Zhengsen Xu, Yiping Chen, John S. Zelek, Jonathan Li
arXiv:2602.14929v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Aligning ground-level imagery with geo-registered satellite maps is crucial for mapping, navigation, and situational awareness, yet remains challen...
By Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Abhay Yadav, Ananth Vishnu Bhaskar, Hardik Prajapati, Cheng Peng, Rama Chellappa, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, B. S. Manjunath
Scaling 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to large outdoor scenes is costly in both data acquisition and computation. Adopting panoramic images with equirectangular projection (ERP) can reduce capture effort via their full $360^{\circ}$ field of view, yet the resulting omnipresent visibility invalidates existing partitioning strategies that rely on local camera frustums, causing block-wise optimization to degenerate into global training.
STARS-GS is a new structure‑aware 3D Gaussian Splatting framework designed for large‑scale aerial surface reconstruction. It introduces a scene partitioning strategy that preserves continuous scene elements, a neighborhood‑aware Gaussian organization that extends geometric constraints to local neighborhoods, and an adaptive surface regularization that tailors regularization strength to local geometry. Experiments on aerial photogrammetry benchmarks show that STARS‑GS improves the average F1‑score from 0.640 to 0.698, a relative gain of about 9.1%.
By Bocheng Li, Wenjuan Zhang, Jie Pan. Dongxu Han, Xuesong Ma, Yiling Yao, Yaning Wang
Newly triggered landslides rarely carry immediate annotations, so cross-domain transferability determines the value of landslide mapping for emergency response and regional risk assessment. Vision foundation models have strengthened representational transfer, yet on unseen regions, events, and data sources they still generate high-confidence false alarms.
arXiv:2608. 09325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Newly triggered landslides rarely carry immediate annotations, so cross-domain transferability determines the value of landslide mapping for emergency response and regional risk assessment.
By Zhihang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jinlin Wu, Hao Li
SatUnreal is a synthetic dataset created with Unreal Engine that offers 10,000 high‑resolution (0.3 m GSD) satellite stereo pairs. It addresses key limitations of existing benchmarks by ensuring physical geometry simulation, spatio‑temporal consistency, topographic diversity, and mathematically precise occlusion masks via a two‑step line‑trace algorithm. Models trained solely on SatUnreal outperform those trained on real datasets when transferred to real‑world benchmarks such as US3D and WHU‑Stereo.
By Han-Gyeol Kim, JaeWan Park, Junmin Park, Darongsae Kwon
arXiv:2609.39553v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis, but existing general-purpose acceleration methods suffer severe rendering quality...
By Changbai Li, Shuo Yang, Yichen Yang, Shuwei Shao, Huobin Tan
arXiv:2606. 16479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) has already attracted a great deal of attention in a short period of time, not least due to the Best Paper Award at CVPR-2025.
By Markus Hillemann, Robert Langend\"orfer, Steven Landgraf, Markus Ulrich