SpatialSplat: Efficient Semantic 3D from Sparse Unposed Images
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Abstract (arXiv)
A major breakthrough in 3D reconstruction is the feedforward paradigm to generate pixel-wise 3D points or Gaussian primitives from sparse, unposed images. To further incorporate semantics while avoiding the significant memory and storage costs of high-dimensional semantic features, existing methods extend this paradigm by associating each primitive with a compressed semantic feature vector. However, these methods have two major limitations: (a) the naively compressed feature compromises expressiveness, affecting the model's ability to capture fine-grained semantics, and (b) the pixel-wise primitive prediction introduces redundancy in overlapping areas, causing unnecessary memory overhead. To this end, we introduce SpatialSplat, a feedforward framework that produces redundancy-aware Gaussians and capitalizes on a dual-field semantic representation. Particularly, with the insight that primitives within the same instance exhibit high semantic consistency, we decompose the semantic representation into a coarse feature field that encodes uncompressed semantics with minimal primitives, and a fine-grained yet low-dimensional feature field that captures detailed inter-instance relationships. Moreover, we propose a selective Gaussian mechanism, which retains only essential Gaussians in the scene, effectively eliminating redundant primitives. Our proposed Spatialsplat learns accurate semantic information and detailed instances prior with more compact 3D Gaussians, making semantic 3D reconstruction more applicable. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate our method, demonstrating a remarkable 60% reduction in scene representation parameters while achieving superior performance over state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://github.com/shengyuuu/SpatialSplat.git
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- 2026UniSem: Generalizable Semantic 3D Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Images18 Mar 2026
- 2026GAP-MLLM: Geometry-Aligned Pre-training for Activating 3D Spatial Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models17 Mar 2026
- 2025FLEG: Feed-Forward Language Embedded Gaussian Splatting from Any Views via Compact Semantic Representation19 Dec 2025
- 2025C3G: Learning Compact 3D Representations with 2K Gaussians3 Dec 2025
- 2025A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splatting Applications: Segmentation, Editing, and Generation13 Aug 2025
- 2025Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction: Recent Advances and Open Challenges22 Jul 2025
- 2025LongSplat: Online Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting from Long Sequence Images22 Jul 2025
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- 2025E3D-Bench: A Benchmark for End-to-End 3D Geometric Foundation Modelscited by 7
- 2025Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction: Recent Advances and Open Challengescited by 4
- 2025FLEG: Feed-Forward Language Embedded Gaussian Splatting from Any Views via Compact Semantic Representationcited by 4
- 2026StructSplat: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Sparse Viewscited by 2
- 2026Learning 3D Representations for Spatial Intelligence from Unposed Multi-View Imagescited by 1
- 2026Bridging 3D Gaussians and Semantic Occupancy for Comprehensive Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding from Unposed Imagescited by 1
- 2026UniSem: Generalizable Semantic 3D Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Imagescited by 0
- 2026GA-GS: Generation-Assisted Gaussian Splatting for Static Scene Reconstructioncited by 0
- 2026GroupForward: Building Referable 3D Scenes via Instance-Grouped Feed-Forward Gaussian Splattingcited by 0
- 2026GroupForward: Building Referable 3D Scenes via Instance-Grouped Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting18 Aug 2026
- 2026Bridging 3D Gaussians and Semantic Occupancy for Comprehensive Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding from Unposed Images2 Jul 2026
- 2026StructSplat: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Sparse Views26 Jun 2026
- 2026Learning 3D Representations for Spatial Intelligence from Unposed Multi-View Images12 Apr 2026
- 2026GA-GS: Generation-Assisted Gaussian Splatting for Static Scene Reconstruction6 Apr 2026
- 2026UniSem: Generalizable Semantic 3D Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Images18 Mar 2026
- 2025FLEG: Feed-Forward Language Embedded Gaussian Splatting from Any Views via Compact Semantic Representation19 Dec 2025
- 2025C3G: Learning Compact 3D Representations with 2K Gaussians3 Dec 2025
- 2025A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splatting Applications: Segmentation, Editing, and Generation13 Aug 2025
- 2025Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction: Recent Advances and Open Challenges22 Jul 2025
- 2025LongSplat: Online Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting from Long Sequence Images22 Jul 2025
- 2025E3D-Bench: A Benchmark for End-to-End 3D Geometric Foundation Models2 Jun 2025