# G-SHARP: Gaussian Surgical Hardware Accelerated Real-time Pipeline

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02482 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.02482/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 19 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 2 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04079/) (2023)
- [gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.06765/) (2024)
- [Neural Rendering for Stereo 3D Reconstruction of Deformable Tissues in Robotic Surgery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.15255/) (2022)
- [Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.16416/) (2024)
- [Deform3DGS: Flexible Deformation for Fast Surgical Scene Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.17835/) (2024)
- [EndoGaussian: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.12561/) (2024)
- [SurgicalGaussian: Deformable 3D Gaussians for High-Fidelity Surgical Scene Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.05023/) (2024)
- [Surgical Gaussian Surfels: Highly Accurate Real-time Surgical Scene Rendering using Gaussian Surfels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.04079/) (2025)
- [EndoWave: 4D Gaussian Splatting with Rational Wavelet for Endoscopic Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.23087/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose G-SHARP, a commercially compatible, real-time surgical scene reconstruction framework designed for minimally invasive procedures that require fast and accurate 3D modeling of deformable tissue. While recent Gaussian splatting approaches have advanced real-time endoscopic reconstruction, existing implementations often depend on non-commercial derivatives, limiting deployability. G-SHARP overcomes these constraints by being the first surgical pipeline built natively on the GSplat (Apache-2.0) differentiable Gaussian rasterizer, enabling principled deformation modeling, robust occlusion handling, and high-fidelity reconstructions on the EndoNeRF pulling benchmark. Our results demonstrate state-of-the-art reconstruction quality with strong speed-accuracy trade-offs suitable for intra-operative use. Finally, we provide a Holoscan SDK application that deploys G-SHARP on NVIDIA IGX Orin and Thor edge hardware, enabling real-time surgical visualization in practical operating-room settings.
