arXiv:2609.36969v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a state-of-the-art technique for 3D scene rendering, offering high efficiency and excellent visual quality. However, be...
By Gyeonggwan Lee, Seunghwan Hong, Junghun Suh
arXiv:2603. 07664v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reflective appearance, especially strong and typically near-field specular reflections, poses a fundamental challenge for accurate surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis.
By Ningjing Fan, Yiqun Wang, Dongming Yan, Peter Wonka
arXiv:2606. 05124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: After the success of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for novel view synthesis, many works have explored how to also use it for geometric surface representation.
By Hongyu Zhou, Zorah L\"ahner
Reflections from shiny objects and glass facades naturally extend the field of view of a camera, capturing the surrounding environment without the need to pan the camera or acquire a full panorama. We propose PanoLess, a Gaussian-splat-based framework that reconstructs the surrounding environment as a distant illumination map from images captured on only one side of a reflective surface.
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.
The paper introduces a new framework that uses 2D Gaussian Splatting to capture view‑dependent specular effects, especially near‑field reflections, by directly leveraging observable environment information in input images. It combines a hybrid reflection appearance representation with view‑dependent specular modeling, and demonstrates improved rendering quality and geometric accuracy on public benchmarks and a newly curated near‑field reflection dataset.
By Yiming Liang, Tianyu Xiao, Hiroshi Ishikawa