arXiv:2608.20687v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in novel view synthesis. However, extracting high-fidelity surfaces directly from 3DGS remains ch...
By Chuanjin Fan, Wenjie Chang, Bohao Liao, Yujia Chen, Wenfei Yang, Tianzhu Zhang
The paper introduces Iterative Gaussian Synopsis, a top‑down unfolding framework that generates compact, progressive levels of detail for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Starting from a full‑resolution 3DGS model, it iteratively prunes Gaussian primitives using a learnable mask, building a multi‑level hierarchy that preserves visual quality while reducing storage. The method combines hierarchical spatial grids with a shared Anchor Codebook to capture global structure and local details, enabling efficient, level‑specific rendering with minimal data overhead.
By Yuqin Lu, Yihua Dai, Yang Zhou, Guiqing Li, Shengfeng He
DepthGS introduces a depth-guided Gaussian splatting framework that leverages depth discrepancies to bound reconstruction error in both single-view and multi-view settings. The method proposes adaptive normal regularization for single-view optimization and cross-view depth consistency regularization for multi-view optimization, guided by theoretical depth-error relationships. Experiments on DTU, Mip-NeRF360, and Tanks and Temples show that DepthGS achieves competitive performance in surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis.
By Xiao Ren, Yu Liu, Ning An, Jian Cheng, Xin Qiao, You-Fu Li, He Kong
LoBE-GS is a Load‑Balanced and Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting framework designed for large‑scale scene reconstruction. It introduces a load‑balanced KD‑tree partitioning scheme that balances camera counts per block, uses depth‑based back‑projection to speed up camera assignment, and applies visibility cropping and selective densification to cut training costs. Experiments on urban and outdoor datasets show up to an order‑of‑magnitude faster scene‑partitioning and a 3.2× reduction in worst‑block fine‑training time compared to CityGaussian, while keeping reconstruction quality competitive.
By Sheng-Hsiang Hung, Ting-Yu Yen, Wei-Fang Sun, Simon See, Shih-Hsuan Hung, Hung-Kuo Chu
OctreeSplat introduces a hierarchical octree-guided feed‑forward Gaussian splatting method that extracts multi‑view features and geometric priors from a frozen visual foundation model. By constructing a hierarchical octree and predicting densification scores, it allocates Gaussian primitives at spatially varying densities, improving depth rendering and surface reconstruction. The approach requires only 76 million additional parameters and 35 GPU‑hours to train, and demonstrates competitive RGB view synthesis, depth synthesis, and surface reconstruction on Replica, TUM, Tanks and Temples, and DTU datasets while reducing the number of Gaussian primitives needed.
MEGA is a new framework that extracts object-level, watertight meshes from 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes. It uses a segment-then-mesh approach, leveraging Spatial Visual Distillation (SVD) to sample diverse camera views of each segmented object and train a mesh reconstruction model with photometric supervision. Experiments on popular benchmarks show that MEGA outperforms existing methods in accurately recovering object-level 3D occupancy and supports complex physical interactions by combining high-quality meshes with photorealistic 3DGS rendering.
By Liwei Liao, Yingkui Zhang, Qianqian Tong, Ronggang Wang