Beyond Static Gaussians: An Empirical Investigation of Architectural Paradigms for Dynamic 3D Scene Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00452v1
• Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 00:42:38 GMT
• Title: Beyond Static Gaussians: An Empirical Investigation of Architectural Paradigms for Dynamic 3D Scene Reconstruction
• Abstract summary: Dynamic scene reconstruction via 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a compelling approach for representing evolving environments.<n>This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of dynamic 3DGS methods, categorizing them into two paradigms.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Dynamic scene reconstruction via 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a compelling approach for representing evolving environments, yet understanding trade-offs between methodologies remains crucial. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of dynamic 3DGS methods, categorizing them into two paradigms: structure-guided methods employing auxiliary representations (deformation fields, canonical spaces, grids) to model temporal changes, and gaussian-centric methods encoding dynamics directly into primitives via continuous functions or 4D representations. We evaluate representative methods from both paradigms on the D-NeRF benchmark. Our findings reveal that structure-guided methods achieve superior reconstruction fidelity and compact model sizes, while gaussian-centric approaches demonstrate significantly higher rendering speeds enabling real-time performance, though with greater quality variability and potentially substantial storage overhead. This analysis highlights a fundamental trade-off between reconstruction quality/compactness versus rendering speed, providing insights to guide future research and application development in dynamic scene reconstruction.

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