3D Gaussian Splatting

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3D Gaussian Splatting represents a scene with many small, positioned and oriented Gaussian primitives whose color and opacity are combined by a differentiable renderer. Methods either optimize these primitives from posed multi-view images or predict them with feed-forward networks, often using depth, stereo, or pretrained vision-model features to improve sparse-view reconstruction. Work also extends the representation to changing scenes, avatars, semantic mapping, and applications such as SLAM, while developing pruning, compression, and faster rasterization for limited hardware. A central challenge is balancing convincing novel views and real-time rendering against accurate, stable geometry, especially when views are sparse, cameras are uncertain, or objects move.

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  1. Confidence-Based Mesh Extraction from 3D Gaussians

    Mar 25, 2026Lukas Radl, Felix Windisch, Andreas Kurz +33D Mesh Reconstruction3D Gaussian Splatting

    Graz University of Technology, Austria · Huawei Technologies, Austria

  2. Accurate Point Measurement in 3DGS -- A New Alternative to Traditional Stereoscopic-View Based Measurements

    Mar 25, 2026Deyan Deng, Rongjun QinMulti-View Geometry3D Gaussian Splatting

    Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, US · Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, US

  3. LightSplat: Fast and Memory-Efficient Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding in Five Seconds

    Mar 25, 2026Jaehun Bang, Jinhyeok Kim, Minji Kim +2Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation3D Scene Understanding

    AIGS, UNIST · GSAI, POSTECH

  4. SpectralSplats: Robust Differentiable Tracking via Spectral Moment Supervision

    Mar 25, 2026Avigail Cohen Rimon, Amir Mann, Mirela Ben Chen +13D Gaussian SplattingDifferentiable Rendering

    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology · NVIDIA

  5. FilterGS: Traversal-Free Parallel Filtering and Adaptive Shrinking for Large-Scale LoD 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 25, 2026Yixian Wang, Haolin Yu, Jiadong Tang +43D Gaussian Splatting3DGS Acceleration

    Beijing Institute of Technology

  6. AdvSplat: Adversarial Attacks on Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting Models

    Mar 24, 2026Yiran Qiao, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou +4Adversarial Perturbations3D Gaussian Splatting

    Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106, USA

  7. Stochastic Ray Tracing for the Reconstruction of 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 24, 2026Peiyu Xu, Xin Sun, Krishna Mullia +33D Gaussian SplattingDifferentiable Ray Tracing

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Adobe Research · Canva Research

  8. FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Captures

    Mar 24, 2026Yujie Sun, Zhuoqiang Cai, Chaoyue Niu +43D Avatar Generation3D Reconstruction

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Alibaba Group

  9. Pose-Free Omnidirectional Gaussian Splatting for 360-Degree Videos with Consistent Depth Priors

    Mar 24, 2026Chuanqing Zhuang, Xin Lu, Zehui Deng +4View-Dependent 3DGS3D Gaussian Splatting

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chongqing University · Air Force Engineering University

  10. GSwap: Realistic Head Swapping with Dynamic Neural Gaussian Field

    Mar 24, 2026Jingtao Zhou, Xuan Gao, Dongyu Liu +3Video EditingIdentity-Preserving Video Generation

    School of Mathematical Science, University of Science and Technology of China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

  11. Gau-Occ: Geometry-Completed Gaussians for Multi-Modal 3D Occupancy Prediction

    Mar 24, 2026Chengxin Lv, Yihui Li, Hongyu Yang +13D Occupancy PredictionCamera-LiDAR Fusion

    State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  12. UniQueR: Unified Query-based Feedforward 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 24, 2026Chensheng Peng, Quentin Herau, Jiezhi Yang +63D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    Applied Intuition · UC Berkeley · Stanford University

  13. Instrument-Splatting++: Towards Controllable Surgical Instrument Digital Twin Using Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 24, 2026Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Chengjiaao Liao +5Digital Twins3D Gaussian Splatting

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS.

  14. Predictive Photometric Uncertainty in Gaussian Splatting for Novel View Synthesis

    Mar 24, 2026Chamuditha Jayanga Galappaththige, Thomas Gottwald, Peter Stehr +43D Scene Change Detection3D Gaussian Splatting

    QUT Centre for Robotics, Australia · ARIAM Hub, Australia · University of Wuppertal, Germany +1

  15. Drop-In Perceptual Optimization for 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 23, 2026Ezgi Ozyilkan, Zhiqi Chen, Oren Rippel +23D Gaussian SplattingPerceptual Loss

    Apple · New York University Tandon School of Engineering

  16. FreeArtGS: Articulated Gaussian Splatting Under Free-moving Scenario

    Mar 23, 2026Hang Dai, Hongwei Fan, Han Zhang +3Motion SegmentationArticulated Object Reconstruction

    CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University · PrimeBot · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

  17. GTSR: Subsurface Scattering Awared 3D Gaussians for Translucent Surface Reconstruction

    Mar 23, 2026Youwen Yuan, Xi Zhao3D ReconstructionMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  18. Cross-Instance Gaussian Splatting Registration via Geometry-Aware Feature-Guided Alignment

    Mar 23, 2026Roy Amoyal, Oren Freifeld, Chaim Baskin3D Gaussian Splatting

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  19. Camera-Agnostic Pruning of 3D Gaussian Splats via Descriptor-Based Beta Evidence

    Mar 23, 2026Peter Fasogbon, Ugurcan Budak, Patrice Rondao Alface +13D Gaussian Pruning3D Gaussian Splatting

    Nokia Technologies, Espoo, Finland · Nokia Technologies, Antwerp, Belgium

  20. RefracGS: Novel View Synthesis Through Refractive Water Surfaces with 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing

    Mar 23, 2026Yiming Shao, Qiyu Dai, Chong Gao +6Novel View Synthesis3D Reconstruction

    Shandong University, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · Sun Yat-sen University, China +2

  21. 4DGS360: 360° Gaussian Reconstruction of Dynamic Objects from a Single Video

    Mar 23, 2026Jae Won Jang, Yeonjin Chang, Wonsik Shin +2Dynamic Scene ReconstructionPanoramic 3D Reconstruction

    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  22. FluidGaussian: Propagating Simulation-Based Uncertainty Toward Functionally-Intelligent 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 22, 2026Yuqiu Liu, Jialin Song, Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte +5Fluid-Structure InteractionPhysics-Aware 3D Scene Reconstruction

    Simon Fraser University · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · University of California, Berkeley +1

  23. EmoTaG: Emotion-Aware Talking Head Synthesis on Gaussian Splatting with Few-Shot Personalization

    Mar 22, 2026Haolan Xu, Keli Cheng, Lei Wang +2Talking Head GenerationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 · Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA 92121 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

  24. F4Splat: Feed-Forward Predictive Densification for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 22, 2026Injae Kim, Chaehyeon Kim, Minseong Bae +23D Gaussian SplattingAdaptive Gaussian Densification

    KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  25. 2Xplat: Decoupling Geometry and Appearance Modeling for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 22, 2026Hwasik Jeong, Seungryong Lee, Gyeongjin Kang +43D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    Yonsei University · Sungkyunkwan University

  26. SGAD-SLAM: Splatting Gaussians at Adjusted Depth for Better Radiance Fields in RGBD SLAM

    Mar 22, 2026Pengchong Hu, Zhizhong Han3DGS SLAMVisual SLAM

    Machine Perception Lab, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

  27. Fast and Robust Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 21, 2026Han Jiao, Jiakai Sun, Lei Zhao +33D Gaussian SplattingDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China

  28. The Role of Initialization in 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 21, 2026Ivan Desiatov, Torsten Sattler3DGS Training3D Gaussian Splatting

    Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering · Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics

  29. GaussianPile: A Unified Sparse Gaussian Splatting Framework for Slice-based Volumetric Reconstruction

    Mar 21, 2026Di Kong, Yikai Wang, Wenjie Guo +83D Reconstruction3D Gaussian Splatting

    Tsinghua University · Zhongguancun Academy · Beijing Normal University +3

  30. 3D Gaussian Splatting with Self-Constrained Priors for High Fidelity Surface Reconstruction

    Mar 20, 2026Takeshi Noda, Yu-Shen Liu, Zhizhong Han3D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA