Dynamic scene reconstruction
Key facts. Dynamic scene reconstruction: 417 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 19 Oct 2026). 263 of its 417 mapped papers (63%) cite “4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering” (2023, arXiv 2310.08528). 8 new papers 1 Oct–19 Oct.
What’s new
1 Oct – 19 Oct 2026
8 new papers, 1 Oct – 19 Oct; 0 this week.
- Earlier · 8
- SwitchSplat: Learning Discrete Object States from Casually Captured Scenes also fits: Semantic 3D scene understanding and robotics
- ResStreamGS: Residual-Sensitive Dual-Stream Gaussian Splatting for Mobile Volumetric Video Streaming also fits: 3D Gaussian splatting methods
- Physical-Field-Bridged Material Parameter Inference from Multi-View Deformation Videos also fits: Semantic 3D scene understanding and robotics
- Make It Flow: Animating Water in 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes also fits: 3D Gaussian splatting methods
- PhysForge: Material-Controllable 3D Reconstruction with Separable Components also fits: Sparse-input reconstruction
- S2Tok: Streaming 3D Gaussian Reconstruction with Persistent Spatial Tokens also fits: Sparse-input reconstruction
- Sparse-View 4D Gaussian Splatting via Spatiotemporal Priors and Generative Assistance
- Affine-Aligned Atlas for Canonical Gaussian Construction in Video Representation
Foundations
Most cited by papers here
- 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering2023cited by 263 here
- Deformable 3D Gaussians for High-Fidelity Monocular Dynamic Scene Reconstruction2023cited by 225 here
- HexPlane: A Fast Representation for Dynamic Scenes2023cited by 185 here
- Dynamic 3D Gaussians: Tracking by Persistent Dynamic View Synthesis2023cited by 175 here
- Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splatting2023cited by 166 here
Lineage
The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.
Each paper on the line cites the one before.
- 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 78 here
- 2021HyperNeRF: A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 132 here
- 2022TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fieldscited by 71 here
- 2022Fast Dynamic Radiance Fields with Time-Aware Neural Voxelscited by 127 here
- 2022NeRFPlayer: A Streamable Dynamic Scene Representation with Decomposed Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 78 here
- 2023HexPlane: A Fast Representation for Dynamic Scenescited by 185 here
- 2023Dynamic 3D Gaussians: Tracking by Persistent Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 175 here
- 2023Deformable 3D Gaussians for High-Fidelity Monocular Dynamic Scene Reconstructioncited by 225 here
- 20234D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Renderingcited by 263 here
- 2023Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splattingcited by 166 here
- 2023SC-GS: Sparse-Controlled Gaussian Splatting for Editable Dynamic Scenescited by 135 here
- 2023Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 138 here
- 2024Per-Gaussian Embedding-Based Deformation for Deformable 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 62 here
11 more it builds on, not in this chain
- 2021Dynamic View Synthesis from Dynamic Monocular Videocited by 94 here
- 2021Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstructioncited by 54 here
- 2022Streaming Radiance Fields for 3D Video Synthesiscited by 58 here
- 2022DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Renderingcited by 63 here
- 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 350 here
- 2023Scaffold-GS: Structured 3D Gaussians for View-Adaptive Renderingcited by 55 here
- 2023Gaussian-Flow: 4D Reconstruction with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Particlecited by 86 here
- 20244D-Rotor Gaussian Splatting: Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenescited by 85 here
- 20243DGStream: On-the-Fly Training of 3D Gaussians for Efficient Streaming of Photo-Realistic Free-Viewpoint Videoscited by 68 here
- 2024Motion-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstructioncited by 55 here
- 20243D Geometry-aware Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 53 here
The 24 most cited of 1,422.
Browse
30 of 417, ranked 6–35
- 6Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis2023138
- 7SC-GS: Sparse-Controlled Gaussian Splatting for Editable Dynamic Scenes2023135
- 8Gaussian-Flow: 4D Reconstruction with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Particle202386
- 94D-Rotor Gaussian Splatting: Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes202485
- 103DGStream: On-the-Fly Training of 3D Gaussians for Efficient Streaming of Photo-Realistic Free-Viewpoint Videos202468
- 11Per-Gaussian Embedding-Based Deformation for Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting202462
- 12Motion-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstruction202455
- 133D Geometry-aware Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic View Synthesis202453
- 14DynMF: Neural Motion Factorization for Real-time Dynamic View Synthesis with 3D Gaussian Splatting202351
- 15GauFRe: Gaussian Deformation Fields for Real-time Dynamic Novel View Synthesis202347
All 30
- 16Dynamic Gaussian Marbles for Novel View Synthesis of Casual Monocular Videos202443
- 17Fully Explicit Dynamic Gaussian Splatting202441
- 18A Compact Dynamic 3D Gaussian Representation for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis202335
- 19GaussianFlow: Splatting Gaussian Dynamics for 4D Content Creation202433
- 20MotionGS: Exploring Explicit Motion Guidance for Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting202432
- 21Grid4D: 4D Decomposed Hash Encoding for High-Fidelity Dynamic Gaussian Splatting202431
- 22Swift4D:Adaptive divide-and-conquer Gaussian Splatting for compact and efficient reconstruction of dynamic scene202529
- 23FreeTimeGS: Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime and Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction202528
- 24MoDGS: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting from Casually-captured Monocular Videos with Depth Priors202427
- 25Superpoint Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Reconstruction202427
- 26SplineGS: Robust Motion-Adaptive Spline for Real-Time Dynamic 3D Gaussians from Monocular Video202427
- 274D Gaussian Splatting with Scale-aware Residual Field and Adaptive Optimization for Real-time Rendering of Temporally Complex Dynamic Scenes202426
- 28SWinGS: Sliding Windows for Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting202326
- 29DreamGaussian4D: Generative 4D Gaussian Splatting202326
- 30MoDec-GS: Global-to-Local Motion Decomposition and Temporal Interval Adjustment for Compact Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting202523
- 31MEGA: Memory-Efficient 4D Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Scenes202423
- 32Masked Space-Time Hash Encoding for Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstruction202323
- 33Im4D: High-Fidelity and Real-Time Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes202322
- 34Animate124: Animating One Image to 4D Dynamic Scene202320
- 35Consistent4D: Consistent 360deg Dynamic Object Generation from Monocular Video202318