Learning Efficient 4D Gaussian Representations from Monocular Videos with Flow Splatting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29976v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:50:27 GMT
• Title: Learning Efficient 4D Gaussian Representations from Monocular Videos with Flow Splatting
• Abstract summary: Reconstructing 3D scenes from monocular videos is challenging due to scene complexity and temporal dynamics.<n>We propose Flow Splatting, which constructs the velocity field and enables conventional splatting technique to render optical flow from the velocity field.<n>Our model achieves better image quality with less time consumption and higher rendering speed.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from monocular videos is challenging due to scene complexity and temporal dynamics. With the advancement of 3D Gaussian Splatting in novel view synthesis, existing methods extend 3D Gaussians to 4D domain with deformation fields, trajectories or spatiotemporal 4D volumes to model scene element deformation. However, these methods suffer from long training time, low rendering speed or high memory consumption for per-frame reconstruction of 4D volumes, without fully exploiting dense dynamic information. To address this issue, we propose Flow Splatting, which constructs the velocity field and enables the conventional splatting technique to render optical flow from the velocity field to supervise dynamics learning process from monocular videos. Specifically, we extend 4D volumes with time varying means and covariance to represent complex dynamics. Then, we construct and approximate the velocity field naturally based on this representations. While conventional volume rendering techniques support to render color fields, we extend the volume rendering strategy to splat the velocity field by considering the influence of camera motions. We conduct experiments on various benchmarks to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our method. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, our model achieves better image quality with less time consumption and higher rendering speed.

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