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Weronika Jakubowska

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arXiv2026

ORCA: Occlusion-Aware Refinement and Completion for Novel View Synthesis

Novel-view synthesis from a single image is a fundamentally ambiguous problem. As the camera moves away from the input viewpoint, previously hidden regions become visible, exposing missing geometry and holes in the reconstructed scene. Existing methods often rely on generative models to complete such regions. However, many of these artifacts are small gaps near depth boundaries and do not require generating new scene content. In order to eliminate expensive process of generating image we introduce ORCA, an occlusion-aware method for reconstructing and completing explorable 3D scenes from a single image. ORCA first introduces 3D structure into a Gaussian-anchor representation using monocular depth while preserving the original camera-ray correspondence. During scene exploration, missing regions are handled based on their size and structure. Small disocclusions are repaired using RGB-D information already available in the reconstruction, while generative inpainting is reserved for larger regions that cannot be reliably recovered from the scene. New Gaussian anchors are added and optimized locally without modifying the existing representation. By reducing unnecessary reliance on generative inpainting, ORCA limits generation-induced hallucinations and better preserves the content and structure of the original scene. On DIV2K, ORCA improves novel-view quality over VistaDream across all reported metrics, increasing MUSIQ from 61.60 to 68.71 and CLIP-IQA from 0.474 to 0.574. These results show that many novel-view artifacts can be repaired effectively by reusing information already present in the reconstructed scene.

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arXiv2026

Learning Representations from 3D Gaussian Splats

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a recent approach for scene rendering. Although primarily designed for view synthesis, its potential for scene understanding tasks remains underexplored. In this work, we conduct a comparative evaluation of various geometric deep learning architectures for the classification of 3D scenes represented using Gaussian Splatting. We benchmark point-based and graph-based models across both traditional point cloud datasets and dedicated Gaussian Splatting datasets. Scenes are embedded into latent representations, which are evaluated through end-to-end classification, linear probing, and clustering analysis. Our study provides insight into the suitability of different geometry-aware architectures and input feature configurations for learning effective 3D Gaussian Splat representations. The results highlight consistent differences between architectural families and reveal the impact of Gaussian-specific attributes on the quality of representation.

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arXiv2026

GaINeR: Geometry-Aware Implicit Network Representation

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are widely used for modeling continuous 2D images, enabling high-fidelity reconstruction, super-resolution, and compression. Architectures such as SIREN, WIRE, and FINER demonstrate their ability to capture fine image details. However, conventional INRs lack explicit geometric structure, limiting local editing, and integration with physical simulation. To address these limitations, we propose GaINeR (Geometry-Aware Implicit Neural Representation for Image Editing), a novel framework for 2D images that combines trainable Gaussian distributions with a neural network-based INR. For a given image coordinate, the model retrieves the K nearest Gaussians, aggregates distance-weighted embeddings, and predicts the RGB value via a neural network. This design enables continuous image representation, interpretable geometric structure, and flexible local editing, providing a foundation for physically aware and interactive image manipulation. Our method supports geometry-consistent transformations, seamless super-resolution, and integration with physics-based simulations. Moreover, the Gaussian representation allows lifting a single 2D image into a geometry-aware 3D representation, enabling depth-guided editing. Experiments demonstrate that GaINeR achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality while maintaining flexible and physically consistent image editing. The official implementation of our method is publicly available at https://github.com/WJakubowska/GaINeR.

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arXiv2025

Neural Surface Priors for Editable Gaussian Splatting

In computer graphics and vision, recovering easily modifiable scene appearance from image data is crucial for applications such as content creation. We introduce a novel method that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with an implicit surface representation, enabling intuitive editing of recovered scenes through mesh manipulation. Starting with a set of input images and camera poses, our approach reconstructs the scene surface using a neural signed distance field. This neural surface acts as a geometric prior guiding the training of Gaussian Splatting components, ensuring their alignment with the scene geometry. To facilitate editing, we encode the visual and geometric information into a lightweight triangle soup proxy. Edits applied to the mesh extracted from the neural surface propagate seamlessly through this intermediate structure to update the recovered appearance. Unlike previous methods relying on the triangle soup proxy representation, our approach supports a wider range of modifications and fully leverages the mesh topology, enabling a more flexible and intuitive editing process. The complete source code for this project can be accessed at: https://github.com/WJakubowska/NeuralSurfacePriors.

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