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LingGS: Decoupling Feed-Forward Geometry Prediction from Camera Tracking for High-Fidelity Gaussian SLAM
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GraftRay: Physically Based Mesh Insertion into Gaussian Splatting Scenes via Path Tracing
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StereoSplat: Metric-Scale Novel View Synthesis via Stereo-Grounded Gaussian Splatting
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