GS-Scale: Unlocking Large-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting Training via Host Offloading Donghyun Lee, Dawoon Jeong, Jae W. Lee, Hongil Yoon tl;dr: all Gaussians->host memory->necessary subset ->GPU on demand during each training iteration->host-offloading arxiv.org/abs/2509.15645

Camera Splatting for Continuous View Optimization Gahye Lee, Hyomin Kim, Gwangjin Ju, Jooeun Son, Hyejeong Yoon, Seungyong Lee tl;dr: camera->camera splat (specialized 3D Gaussian)->camera parameters; virtual cameras->evaluate camera splat arxiv.org/abs/2509.15677

MS-GS: Multi-Appearance Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild Deming Li, Kaiwen Jiang, Yutao Tang, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Rama Chellappa, Cheng Peng tl;dr: depth prediction in semantic regions->SfM depth->initialization; virtual views->sparse view arxiv.org/abs/2509.15548

DistillMatch: Leveraging Knowledge Distillation from Vision Foundation Model for Multimodal Image Matching Meng Yang, Fan Fan, Zizhuo Li, Songchu Deng, Yong Ma, Jiayi Ma tl;dr: DINOv2/3->semantic features->LoFTR arxiv.org/abs/2509.16017

RGB-Only Supervised Camera Parameter Optimization in Dynamic Scenes Fang Li, Hao Zhang, Narendra Ahuja tl;dr: no additional GT supervision arxiv.org/abs/2509.15123

Towards the Next Generation of 3D Reconstruction @parskatt.bsky.social PhD Thesis. tl;dr: would be useful in teaching image matching - nice explanations. (too) Fancy and stylish notation. Cool Ack section and cover image. liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

And here is a link to the thesis itself: liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

MemGS: Memory-Efficient Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time SLAM Yinlong Bai, Hongxin Zhang, Sheng Zhong, Junkai Niu, Hai Li, Yijia He, Yi Zhou tl;dr: merge redundant 3D Gaussian primitives with geometric similarity within the same voxel arxiv.org/abs/2509.13536

MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction @nikv9.bsky.social et al. tl;dr: flexible input & metric output version of VGGT arxiv.org/abs/2509.13414

Embracing Bulky Objects with Humanoid Robots: Whole-Body Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning Chunxin Zheng, Kai Chen, Zhihai Bi, Yulin Li, Liang Pan, Jinni Zhou, Haoang Li, Jun Ma tl;dr: pre-trained human motion prior with NSDF representation+RL arxiv.org/abs/2509.13534

BIM Informed Visual SLAM for Construction Monitoring Asier Bikandi, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Muhammad Shaheer, @alitourani.bsky.social, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez tl;dr: structural consistency between the as-built map and the as-planned BIM->SLAM back-end arxiv.org/abs/2509.13972

MCGS-SLAM: A Multi-Camera SLAM Framework Using Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Mapping Zhihao Cao, Hanyu Wu, Li Wa Tang, Zizhou Luo, Zihan Zhu, Wei Zhang, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social, @martin-r-oswald.bsky.social tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2509.14191

Plug-and-Play PDE Optimization for 3D Gaussian Splatting: Toward High-Quality Rendering and Reconstruction Yifan Mo, Youcheng Cai, Ligang Liu tl;dr: PDE+viscous term->3DGS optimization; MPM->PDE arxiv.org/abs/2509.13938

Universal Gröbner Bases of (Universal) Multiview Ideals Timothy Duff, Jack Kendrick, Rekha R. Thomas tl;dr: extend multiview ideals to universal multiview ideals arxiv.org/abs/2509.12376

Gaussian-Plus-SDF SLAM: High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction at 150+ fps Zhexi Peng, Kun Zhou, Tianjia Shao tl;dr: SDF->initial scene->color errors->correction by 3DGS arxiv.org/abs/2509.11574

FastTrack: GPU-Accelerated Tracking for Visual SLAM Kimia Khabiri, Parsa Hosseininejad, Shishir Gopinath, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2509.10757

SpatialVID: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Spatial Annotations Jiahao Wang, Yufeng Yuan, Rujie Zheng, Youtian Lin, Jian Gao, Lin-Zhuo Chen, Yajie Bao, Yi Zhang, Chang Zeng, Yanxi Zhou, Xiaoxiao Long, Hao Zhu, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Xun Cao, Yao Yao tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2509.09676

SMapper: A Multi-Modal Data Acquisition Platform for SLAM Benchmarking Pedro Miguel Bastos Soares, Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Asier Bikandi Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2509.09509

3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2509.07996

Online Dynamic SLAM with Incremental Smoothing and Mapping Jesse Morris, Yiduo Wang, Viorela Ila tl;dr: object-centric point+world-centric motion representation; sparsity-aware factor graph arxiv.org/abs/2509.08197

Faster VGGT with Block-Sparse Global Attention Chung-Shien Brian Wang, Christian Schmidt, Jens Piekenbrinck, Bastian Leibe tl;dr: block-sparse attention replaces global attention another work to improve scalability of VGGT arxiv.org/abs/2509.07120

RayGaussX: Accelerating Gaussian-Based Ray Marching for Real-Time and High-Quality Novel View Synthesis Hugo Blanc, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud, Alexis Paljic tl;dr: empty-space skipping and adaptive sampling+reordering of primitives&rays+scale-regularization arxiv.org/abs/2509.07782

OmniMap: A General Mapping Framework Integrating Optics, Geometry, and Semantics Yinan Deng, Yufeng Yue, Jianyu Dou, Jingyu Zhao, Jiahui Wang, Yujie Tang, Yi Yang, Mengyin Fu tl;dr: optics, geometry, and semantics->3DGS-Voxel hybrid representation arxiv.org/abs/2509.07500

Scaling Transformer-Based Novel View Synthesis Models with Token Disentanglement and Synthetic Data Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Srinivas Kaza, Xuan Luo, Vishal M. Patel, Stephen Lombardi, Jungyeon Park arxiv.org/abs/2509.06950

CausNVS: Autoregressive Multi-view Diffusion for Flexible 3D Novel View Synthesis Xin Kong, Daniel Watson, Yannick Strümpler, @miniemeyer.bsky.social, Federico Tombari tl;dr: a framewise attention layer with causal masking on top of a pretrained 2D diffusion backbone arxiv.org/abs/2509.06579

GeoSplat: A Deep Dive into Geometry-Constrained Gaussian Splatting Yangming Li, Chaoyu Liu, Lihao Liu, Simon Masnou, Carola-Bibian Schönlieb tl;dr: high-order info->GS; manifold/varifold-based methods->geometric priors arxiv.org/abs/2509.05075

WinT3R: Window-Based Streaming Reconstruction with Camera Token Pool Zizun Li, Jianjun Zhou, Yifan Wang, Haoyu Guo, Wenzheng Chang, Yang Zhou, Haoyi Zhu, Junyi Chen, Chunhua Shen, Tong He tl;dr: window-based attention+camera token pool for memory arxiv.org/abs/2509.05296

ViSTA-SLAM: Visual SLAM with Symmetric Two-view Association @ganlinzhang.xyz, @shenhanqian.bsky.social, @xiwang1212.bsky.social, @dcremers.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.01584

FastVGGT: Training-Free Acceleration of Visual Geometry Transformer You Shen, Zhipeng Zhang, Yansong Qu, Liujuan Cao tl;dr: token merging->VGGT without dense global attention arxiv.org/abs/2509.02560

SR-SLAM: Scene-reliability Based RGB-D SLAM in Diverse Environments Haolan Zhang, et al. tl;dr: object detection confidence+spatial distribution+feature quality+depth quality+historical references->scene reliability assessment->SLAM arxiv.org/abs/2509.01111

FGO-SLAM: Enhancing Gaussian SLAM with Globally Consistent Opacity Radiance Field Fan Zhu, Yifan Zhao, Ziyu Chen, Biao Yu, Hui Zhu tl;dr: ORB-SLAM3->tracking; opacity radiance field->mapping arxiv.org/abs/2509.01547

Radially Distorted Homographies, Revisited Mårten Wadenbäck, Marcus Valtonen Örnhag, @parskatt.bsky.social tl;dr: minimal solvers for one-sided/two-sided equal/two-sided independent radial distortion homography arxiv.org/abs/2508.21190

Multi-View 3D Point Tracking Frano Rajič, @haofeixu.bsky.social, Marko Mihajlovic, Siyuan Li, Irem Demir, Emircan Gündoğdu, Lei Ke, Sergey Prokudin, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social, Siyu Tang arxiv.org/abs/2508.21060

Minimal Solvers for Full DoF Motion Estimation from Asynchronous Tracks @petrhruby.bsky.social, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2508.17537

SAIL-Recon: Large SfM by Augmenting Scene Regression with Localization Junyuan Deng, Heng Li, Tao Xie, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Ping Tan, Xiaoyang Guo arxiv.org/abs/2508.17972

GSVisLoc: Generalizable Visual Localization for Gaussian Splatting Scene Representations Fadi Khatib, Dror Moran, Guy Trostianetsky, Yoni Kasten, Meirav Galun, Ronen Basri tl;dr: 3D features (from 3DGS)+2D features (from query)->3D-2D correspondences->PnP+RANSAC arxiv.org/abs/2508.18242

COSMO-Bench: A Benchmark for Collaborative SLAM Optimization Daniel McGann, Easton R. Potokar, Michael Kaess tl;dr: in title; LiDAR data arxiv.org/abs/2508.16731

FlowVLA: Thinking in Motion with a Visual Chain of Thought Zhide Zhong, Haodong Yan, Junfeng Li, Xiangchen Liu, Xin Gong, Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Haoang Li tl;dr: Visual CoT->dynamics; autoregressive Transformer ->appearance+reasoning arxiv.org/abs/2508.18269

MeshSplat: Generalizable Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction via Gaussian Splatting Hanzhi Chang, Ruijie Zhu, Wenjie Chang, Mulin Yu, Yanzhe Liang, Jiahao Lu, Zhuoyuan Li, Tianzhu Zhang tl;dr: MVSplat->2DGS->mesh+NVS arxiv.org/abs/2508.17811

HAMSt3R: Human-Aware Multi-view Stereo 3D Reconstruction Sara Rojas, Matthieu Armando, Bernard Ghamen, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social, @vincentleroy.bsky.social, Gregory Rogez arxiv.org/abs/2508.16433

Enhancing Novel View Synthesis from extremely sparse views with SfM-free 3D Gaussian Splatting Framework Zongqi He, et al. arxiv.org/abs/2508.15457

Fast globally optimal Truncated Least Squares point cloud registration with fixed rotation axis Ivo Ivanov, Carsten Markgraf tl;dr: TLS->formulation; BnB->solver; contractor->reduce search space of BnB arxiv.org/abs/2508.15613

GSFix3D: Diffusion-Guided Repair of Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting Jiaxin Wei, Stefan Leutenegger, Simon Schaefer tl;dr: fuse mesh and 3DGS->rendered images->pretrained diffusion model+random mask augmentation->removes artifacts+inpainting+completion arxiv.org/abs/2508.14717

Online 3D Gaussian Splatting Modeling with Novel View Selection Byeonggwon Lee, Junkyu Park, Khang Truong Giang, Soohwan Song tl;dr: shapes and positional gradients of Gaussians ->uncertainty->NBV->3DGS arxiv.org/abs/2508.14014

Distilled-3DGS:Distilled 3D Gaussian Splatting Lintao Xiang, Xinkai Chen, Jianhuang Lai, Guangcong Wang tl;dr: vanilla 3DGS+noise-augmented 3DGS+dropout-regularized 3DGS->multi teachers->voxel histogram-based structural loss->student arxiv.org/abs/2508.14037

LongSplat: Robust Unposed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Casual Long Videos Chin-Yang Lin, Cheng Sun, Fu-En Yang, Min-Hung Chen, Yen-Yu Lin, Yu-Lun Liu arxiv.org/abs/2508.14041

4DNeX: Feed-Forward 4D Generative Modeling Made Easy Zhaoxi Chen, Tianqi Liu, Long Zhuo, Jiawei Ren, Zeng Tao, He Zhu, Fangzhou Hong, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu arxiv.org/abs/2508.13154

G-CUT3R: Guided 3D Reconstruction with Camera and Depth Prior Integration Ramil Khafizov, Artem Komarichev, Ruslan Rakhimov, Peter Wonka, Evgeny Burnaev tl;dr: camera parameters or/and depthmaps->CUT3R arxiv.org/abs/2508.11379

i2Nav-Robot: A Large-Scale Indoor-Outdoor Robot Dataset for Multi-Sensor Fusion Navigation and Mapping Hailiang Tang, Tisheng Zhang, Liqiang Wang, Xin Ding, Man Yuan, Zhiyu Xiang, Jujin Chen, Yuhan Bian, Shuangyan Liu, Yuqing Wang, Guan Wang, Xiaoji Niu tl;dr: in title arxiv.org/abs/2508.11485

ViPE: Video Pose Engine for 3D Geometric Perception Jiahui Huang, Qunjie Zhou, Hesam Rabeti, Aleksandr Korovko, Huan Ling, Xuanchi Ren, Tianchang Shen, Jun Gao, Dmitry Slepichev, Chen-Hsuan Lin, Jiawei Ren, Kevin Xie, Joydeep Biswas, @lealtaixe.bsky.social, Sanja Fidler arxiv.org/abs/2508.10934