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Ultra-fast Neural Inference for Stochastic Gaussian Splatting Denoising

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\phi-RIE: From Photorealistic Reconstruction to Interactive Environments

arXiv cs.GR details ϕ-RIE, a Gaussian-native pipeline that turns photorealistic 3D reconstructions into movable simulator assets. For developers, the key …

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