LagrangianSplats: Divergence-Free Transport of Gaussian Primitives for Fluid Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09299v1
• Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 03:45:50 GMT
• Title: LagrangianSplats: Divergence-Free Transport of Gaussian Primitives for Fluid Reconstruction
• Abstract summary: Reconstructing 3D fluid velocity fields from sparse 2D video observations is a highly ill-posed inverse problem.<n>Existing methods typically impose these constraints through soft penalties, often leading to compromised accuracy and convergence issues.<n>We introduce a reconstruction framework that structurally enforces both constraints. Specifically, we parameterize the reconstructed velocity using a continuous Divergence-Free Kernel representation.
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• Abstract: Reconstructing 3D fluid velocity fields from sparse 2D video observations is a highly ill-posed inverse problem, demanding both transport consistency with observed motion and physical validity under fluid laws. Existing methods typically impose these constraints through soft penalties, often leading to compromised accuracy and convergence issues. We introduce a reconstruction framework that structurally enforces both constraints. Specifically, we parameterize the reconstructed velocity using a continuous Divergence-Free Kernel representation, driving the advection of a Lagrangian 3D Gaussian Splatting representation. This formulation intrinsically guarantees both flow incompressibility and long-range transport coherence by construction. To enable the efficient optimization of such a constrained system, we introduce a novel Sliding Window scheme that propagates gradients over meaningful temporal horizons while maintaining tractable training costs. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both transport consistency and physical accuracy, enabling applications such as high-quality re-simulation and flow analysis.

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