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L2D2-GS: Learning to Densify for Feedforward Dynamic Gaussian Scene Reconstruction

arXiv 2606.29374 ↗First posted 28 Jun 2026cs.CV cs.GRcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

High-fidelity reconstruction of dynamic urban environments is a cornerstone of autonomous driving simulation and large-scale world modeling. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has established a new standard for real-time rendering, its reliance on expensive per-scene optimization limits scalability. Conversely, recent feedforward methods that infer Gaussian parameters offer faster speed but face fundamental bottlenecks: they are memory-prohibitive at high resolutions and struggle to fuse dense multi-view observations consistently. This paper presents L2D2-GS, a unified framework that reformulates generalizable reconstruction not as a one-shot regression, but as a robust iterative process of optimization and densification. To resolve the ambiguity of supervision in primitive generation, we propose a self-supervised densification policy that derives explicit reward signals from global reconstruction gains to guide local densification. Furthermore, we mitigate irreversible early-stage artifacts through a geometric regularization mechanism, utilizing reparameterization to constrain the optimization manifold and prevent convergence to poor local optima. Extensive experiments on the PandaSet and Waymo datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction fidelity and strong zero-shot generalization, while using fewer primitives than competing baselines.

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  1. 2024DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes18 Nov
  2. 2024OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction29 Aug
  3. 2024Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting2 Jan

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  1. 2023EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervisioncited by 217
  2. 2021PandaSet: Advanced Sensor Suite Dataset for Autonomous Drivingcited by 190
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  6. 2024Long-LRM: Long-sequence Large Reconstruction Model for Wide-coverage Gaussian Splatscited by 114
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  8. 2024TranSplat: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images with Transformerscited by 75
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  16. 2024Generative Densification: Learning to Densify Gaussians for High-Fidelity Generalizable 3D Reconstructioncited by 18
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  22. 2025GaussianLens: Localized High-Resolution Reconstruction via On-Demand Gaussian Densificationcited by 3

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