From Splats to Silicon: Rethinking Computational Efficiency of 3DGS

arXiv:2609.06157 · cs.AR, cs.AI, cs.GR · Submitted 2026-09-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.AR, cs.AI, cs.GR

Submitted: 2026-09-05

Updated: 2026-09-05

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• 3D Gaussian Splatting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Gaussian Splatting — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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