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arXiv Computer Vision By Harvey Caldeira, Haoran Wang, Guoxi Huang, Shaoyu Cai, Rachel Fu, Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Geometry beneath the Waves: Dense Priors for Sparse-View Underwater 3D Gaussian Splatting

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