SwiftNDC: Fast Neural Depth Correction for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22565v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:07:53 GMT
• Title: SwiftNDC: Fast Neural Depth Correction for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction
• Authors: Kang Han, Wei Xiang, Lu Yu, Mathew Wyatt, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella,
• Abstract summary: SwiftNDC is a fast and general framework built around a Neural Depth Correction field.<n>We generate a dense point cloud through back-projection and robust reprojection-error filtering.<n>This reliable dense geometry substantially accelerates 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for mesh reconstruction.<n>We conduct a comprehensive study across five datasets, including two for mesh reconstruction, as well as three for novel-view synthesis.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Depth-guided 3D reconstruction has gained popularity as a fast alternative to optimization-heavy approaches, yet existing methods still suffer from scale drift, multi-view inconsistencies, and the need for substantial refinement to achieve high-fidelity geometry. Here, we propose SwiftNDC, a fast and general framework built around a Neural Depth Correction field that produces cross-view consistent depth maps. From these refined depths, we generate a dense point cloud through back-projection and robust reprojection-error filtering, obtaining a clean and uniformly distributed geometric initialization for downstream reconstruction. This reliable dense geometry substantially accelerates 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for mesh reconstruction, enabling high-quality surfaces with significantly fewer optimization iterations. For novel-view synthesis, SwiftNDC can also improve 3DGS rendering quality, highlighting the benefits of strong geometric initialization. We conduct a comprehensive study across five datasets, including two for mesh reconstruction, as well as three for novel-view synthesis. SwiftNDC consistently reduces running time for accurate mesh reconstruction and boosts rendering fidelity for view synthesis, demonstrating the effectiveness of combining neural depth refinement with robust geometric initialization for high-fidelity and efficient 3D reconstruction.

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