ResearchResearch paperImage, Video & 3D Generation · Computer Vision1 source · Oct 6, 2026

RDGSplat: Render-Dedicated Geometry for Novel View Synthesis

To this end, we propose RDGSplat, a framework that decodes a second geometry dedicated to rendering from a frozen 3D foundation model, leaving its metric predictions intact.

Key points

  • 3D foundation models enable efficient novel view synthesis by carrying a Gaussian head on the representation they already use for reconstruction.
  • In particular, we devise Render-Dedicated Geometry Decoding, which duplicates the pretrained decoders and optimizes the duplicates under photometric supervision alone.
  • Then, a Target-Pose Conditioned Adapter is introduced to reformulate the representation those decoders read, conditioned on the target camera pose rather than the target image.
  • Extensive experiments show that RDGSplat improves novel view synthesis across three feed-forward backbones on four benchmarks, with every pretrained weight frozen.

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  • [1]RDGSplat: Render-Dedicated Geometry for Novel View Synthesis
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 10:18 PM
    To this end, we propose RDGSplat, a framework that decodes a second geometry dedicated to rendering from a frozen 3D foundation model, leaving its metric predictions intact.
    3D foundation models enable efficient novel view synthesis by carrying a Gaussian head on the representation they already use for reconstruction.

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