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. StreetForward: Perceiving Dynamic Street with Feedforward Causal Attention

    Mar 20, 2026Zhongrui Yu, Zhao Wang, Yijia Xie +4Dynamic Scene ReconstructionFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    Li Auto Inc. · Zhejiang University

  2. Zero Shot Deformation Reconstruction for Soft Robots Using a Flexible Sensor Array and Cage Based 3D Gaussian Modeling

    Mar 20, 2026Linrui Shou, Zilang Chen, Wenjia Xu +2Deformable Shape ReconstructionSoft Robotics

    University of Notre Dame · University of Washington

  3. Matryoshka Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 19, 2026Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Hakan Aktas +113D Gaussian Splatting3DGS Training

    University of Cambridge · Chalmers University of Technology · Google

  4. Reconstruction Matters: Learning Geometry-Aligned BEV Representation through 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 19, 2026Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Burhaneddin Yaman +4Bird's-Eye-View RepresentationAutonomous Driving Perception

    Bosch Research North America & Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) · Case Western Reserve University · Washington University in St. Louis

  5. From ex(p) to poly: Gaussian Splatting with Polynomial Kernels

    Mar 19, 2026Joerg H. Mueller, Martin Winter, Markus Steinberger3D Gaussian Splatting3DGS Acceleration

    Huawei Technologies, Switzerland · Huawei Technologies, Austria · Graz University of Technology, Austria

  6. SwiftGS: Episodic Priors for Immediate Satellite Surface Recovery

    Mar 19, 2026Rong Fu, Jiekai Wu, Xiaowen Ma +43D ReconstructionFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    Independent Researcher

  7. Inst4DGS: Instance-Decomposed 4D Gaussian Splatting with Multi-Video Label Permutation Learning

    Mar 19, 2026Yonghan Lee, Dinesh Manocha3D Gaussian SplattingInstance Segmentation

    University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  8. Semantic Segmentation and Depth Estimation for Real-Time Lunar Surface Mapping Using 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 18, 2026Guillem Casadesus Vila, Adam Dai, Grace Gao3D MappingStereo Depth Estimation

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

  9. AHOY! Animatable Humans under Occlusion from YouTube Videos with Gaussian Splatting and Video Diffusion Priors

    Mar 18, 2026Aymen Mir, Riza Alp Guler, Xiangjun Tang +23D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany · Imperial College London, UK · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia +1

  10. CrowdGaussian: Reconstructing High-Fidelity 3D Gaussians for Human Crowd from a Single Image

    Mar 18, 2026Yizheng Song, Yiyu Zhuang, Qipeng Xu +53D Human ReconstructionSingle-View 3D Reconstruction

    Nanjing University, China · State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, China · Fudan University, China

  11. UniSem: Generalizable Semantic 3D Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Images

    Mar 18, 2026Guibiao Liao, Qian Ren, Kaimin Liao +43D ReconstructionSparse-View 3D Reconstruction

    Moore Threads AI

  12. Does it matter which Gaussians you pick in 4D Gaussian streaming?

    Mar 18, 2026Ashim Dahal, Rabab Abdelfattah, Nick Rahimi3D Gaussian Splatting4D Reconstruction

    School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

  13. Rethinking Pose Refinement in 3D Gaussian Splatting under Pose Prior and Geometric Uncertainty

    Mar 17, 2026Mangyu Kong, Jaewon Lee, Seongwon Lee +1Camera Pose Estimation3D Gaussian Splatting

    Yonsei University · Kookmin University · Korea Institution of Science and Technology

  14. ProgressiveAvatars: Progressive Animatable 3D Gaussian Avatars

    Mar 17, 2026Kaiwen Song, Jinkai Cui, Juyong Zhang3D Avatar Generation3D Gaussian Splatting

    University of Science and Technology of China

  15. OGScene3D: Incremental Open-Vocabulary 3D Gaussian Scene Graph Mapping for Scene Understanding

    Mar 17, 2026Siting Zhu, Ziyun Lu, Guangming Wang +53D Scene Understanding3D SGG

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · University of Cambridge, England · University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany +2

  16. Leveling3D: Leveling Up 3D Reconstruction with Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting and Geometry-Aware Generation

    Mar 17, 2026Yiming Huang, Baixiang Huang, Beilei Cui +3Novel View Synthesis3D Gaussian Splatting

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  17. NanoGS: Training-Free Gaussian Splat Simplification

    Mar 17, 2026Butian Xiong, Rong Liu, Tiantian Zhou +33DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

    USC Institute for Creative Technologies · Texas A&M University

  18. Feed-forward Gaussian Registration for Head Avatar Creation and Editing

    Mar 16, 2026Malte Prinzler, Paulo Gotardo, Siyu Tang +13D Avatar GenerationMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    ETH Zürich · Google

  19. NavGSim: High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Large-Scale Navigation

    Mar 16, 2026Jiahang Liu, Yuanxing Duan, Jiazhao Zhang +4Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Peking University · Galbot · BAAI

  20. LiDAR-EVS: Enhance Extrapolated View Synthesis for 3D Gaussian Splatting with Pseudo-LiDAR Supervision

    Mar 16, 2026Yiming Huang, Xin Kang, Sipeng Zhang +3Novel View SynthesisAutonomous Driving Simulation

    NVIDIA · CUHK

  21. E2EGS: Event-to-Edge Gaussian Splatting for Pose-Free 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 16, 2026Yunsoo Kim, Changki Sung, Dasol Hong +13D ReconstructionNovel View Synthesis

    Urban Robotics Lab, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

  22. Direct Object-Level Reconstruction via Probabilistic Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 15, 2026Shuai Guo, Ao Guo, Junchao Zhao +5Object-Centric 3D Reconstruction3D Gaussian Splatting

    School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence of Zhengzhou University, 450001, China · 2Zhengzhou University Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Swarm Systems, 450001, China · School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, 116025, China

  23. 4D Synchronized Fields: Motion-Language Gaussian Splatting for Temporal Scene Understanding

    Mar 15, 2026Mohamed Rayan Barhdadi, Samir Abdaljalil, Rasul Khanbayov +24D Scene UnderstandingDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    Texas A&M University · Hamad Bin Khalifa University

  24. S2GS: Streaming Semantic Gaussian Splatting for Online Scene Understanding and Reconstruction

    Mar 15, 2026Renhe Zhang, Yuyang Tan, Jingyu Gong +4Streaming 3D Reconstruction3D Scene Understanding

    East China Normal University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  25. PhyGaP: Physically-Grounded Gaussians with Polarization Cues

    Mar 14, 2026Jiale Wu, Xiaoyang Bai, Zongqi He +23D Scene Relighting3D Gaussian Splatting

    The University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University

  26. RetimeGS: Continuous-Time Reconstruction of 4D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 14, 2026Xuezhen Wang, Li Ma, Yulin Shen +24D Reconstruction3D Gaussian Splatting

    HKUST · Netflix Eyeline Labs · HKUST(GZ)

  27. Spectral Defense Against Resource-Targeting Attack in 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 13, 2026Yang Chen, Yi Yu, Jiaming He +33D Gaussian SplattingAdversarial Robustness

    Nanyang Technological University · UESTC · Tsinghua University +2

  28. Catalyst4D: High-Fidelity 3D-to-4D Scene Editing via Dynamic Propagation

    Mar 13, 2026Shifeng Chen, Yihui Li, Jun Liao +23D Scene Editing3D Gaussian Splatting

    State Key Laboratory of Complex and Critical Software Environment, Beihang University, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, China +1

  29. LR-SGS: Robust LiDAR-Reflectance-Guided Salient Gaussian Splatting for Self-Driving Scene Reconstruction

    Mar 13, 2026ZY Chen, F Zhu, H Zhu +43D Gaussian SplattingAutonomous Driving

  30. AstroSplat: Physics-Based Gaussian Splatting for Rendering and Reconstruction of Small Celestial Bodies

    Mar 12, 2026Jennifer Nolan, Travis Driver, John Christian3D Reconstruction3D Gaussian Splatting

    Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA