3DGS Compression

3DGS: 3D Gaussian Splatting

Overview

3D Gaussian Splatting compression studies how to represent scenes with fewer or cheaper-to-store Gaussian primitives without losing important visual detail. Common approaches prune or merge redundant splats, allocate capacity by importance, quantize attributes, and use anchors, entropy models, or image and video codecs to encode what remains. Some methods compress dynamic scenes by sharing stable content across frames or coding motion and residuals, with evaluation spanning novel-view benchmarks such as Mip-NeRF 360 and streaming or mobile settings. The central tension is balancing rate and rendering quality across viewpoints and motion while keeping encoding, decoding, and quality assessment practical.

Latest papers

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85 papers17 papers in the last four weeks, up 13% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Codec-Compatible Learned Compression for 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 17, 2026Feiyang Yu, Qi Yang, Wenjie Huang +33DGS CompressionLearned Image Compression

  2. EGGHead: Efficient Generalizable Gaussian Heads from a Single Image

    Oct 16, 2026Pilseo Park, Andrew Hou, Michel Sarkis +33D Face ReconstructionSingle-View 3D Reconstruction

  3. Feed-Forward Multi-View Feature Coding for 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 14, 2026Seungmi Choi, Ji-Hyoun Choi, Suhyun Jo +23DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  4. RDCompGS: Rate-Distortion Optimization for Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting with Image Codecs

    Oct 14, 2026Huiping Ren, Shuai Wan, Luqian Bai +23DGS CompressionGaussian Splatting Compression

  5. PLEDGE: Progressive Lossy Error-Bounded Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 13, 2026Mingze Xia, Yuxiao Li, Baixi Sun +6Quantization3DGS Compression

  6. Efficient Gaussian Splatting Sequence Compression with Standard Video Codecs

    Oct 6, 2026Qi Yang, Shuting Xia, Le Yang +23DGS CompressionVideo Compression

  7. Mobile-4DGS: Unified Static-Dynamic Real-time Mobile Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 4, 2026Xiaobiao Du, Zhen Fang, Tianqing Zhu +23DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  8. SCION: Scene Composition with Instanced Neural Primitives

    Oct 1, 2026William Koch, Amogh Joshi, Cyrus Vachha +23DGS Compression3D Scene Editing

  9. TSGL: Teacher-Student Graph Learning for 3DGS Compression

    Sep 29, 2026Matin Bani Saedi, Matthew Kyan, Gene Cheung3DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  10. NRF-GS: Neural Residual Fields for Expressive and Compact Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 29, 2026Pratik Singh Bisht, Andreas Kolb3DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  11. Rate-Distortion Adaptive Primitive Selection for Omnidirectional Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 28, 2026Yulong Cheng, Youneng Bao, Junfeng Zhou +23DGS Compression3D Gaussian Pruning

  12. Gaussian Splatting-based Volumetric Video Compression with Sparse 4D Anchors

    Sep 27, 2026Ge Gao, Siyue Teng, Chanqgi Wang +53DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  13. FeCoSplat: Feedback-Guided Compression for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 27, 2026Yuxuan Li, Yihang Chen, Yufeng Zhang +23DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  14. Gauss What You Need: Compact Gaussian Splatting Across Scene Scales

    Sep 25, 2026Afif Boudaoud, Jiayi Liu, Alexandru Calotoiu +13D Gaussian Splatting3DGS Training

  15. Towards Practical Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 24, 2026Pengpeng Yu, Yueru Chen, Fei Song +43DGS CompressionEntropy Coding

  16. Robust, Estimator-Agnostic Dynamic 3DGS Compression

    Sep 22, 2026Chenjunjie Wang, Zixi Huang, Yao Wang +13DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  17. GARO: Geometry-Aware Redundancy Optimization for Real-Time and High-Fidelity Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 20, 2026Huiwen Xue, Kaixing Zhao, Zuheng Ming +13DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  18. Compressing 3D Gaussian Splatting via Cross-Representation Priors

    Sep 19, 2026Yezheng Zhang, Huanxiong Liang, Chuqin Zhou +23DGS CompressionGaussian Splatting Compression

  19. GS-PQM: A Parameter-Domain Quality Metric for Compressed Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 18, 2026Pedro Martin, António Rodrigues, João Ascenso +1Gaussian Splatting Compression3DGS Compression

  20. PhGS: Post-Hoc Pruning and Refinement of Single-View Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstructions

    Sep 17, 2026Rinto Yagawa, Han Cheng, Dieter Schmalstieg +23DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  21. Transforming harmonic coefficients for 3D splat compression

    Sep 14, 2026Tam Thuc Do, Philip A. Chou, Gene Cheung3DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting

  22. SparseTalk - Sparsifying 3D Gaussian Language Fields for Efficient 3D Visual Question Answering

    Sep 14, 2026Davit Soselia, Joseph JaJa, Amitabh Varshney3DGS CompressionLanguage-Embedded 3DGS

  23. LinearMask-GS: Stable-Mask Importance Pruning for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 9, 2026Donghun Ryu, Minhyeok Lee3DGS Compression3D Gaussian Splatting