It is demonstrated that using multiple cameras, even with a low baseline, significantly improves reconstruction quality in single-shot, few-shot, and casual video settings, and under a fixed sensor budget, angular sampling improves reconstruction when exposures are scarce despite lower spatial resolution.
Abstract
Many consumer smartphones, stereo cameras, and light field cameras record multiple synchronized viewpoints in a single exposure event. However, novel view synthesis pipelines commonly use only a monocular stream and rely on camera motion or learned priors to obtain angular coverage. In this paper, we ask: why do we use only one viewpoint? We analyze sensor-limited multi-view, where one sensor trades off spatial and angular resolution, and exposure-limited multi-view, where multiple sensors on one commodity device observe each event simultaneously. We introduce a new dataset incorporating three types of commodity multi-view cameras, and evaluate sparse-view 3DGS and 4DGS baselines measuring reconstruction quality as a function of number of exposures and angle between extreme views. Our results demonstrate that using multiple cameras, even with a low baseline, significantly improves reconstruction quality in single-shot, few-shot, and casual video settings. In addition, under a fixed sensor budget, angular sampling improves reconstruction when exposures are scarce despite lower spatial resolution. The gains are most pronounced for single-shot and dynamic scenes, where a stationary monocular camera lacks the angular diversity to recover scene geometry and motion.
This paper proposes a framework for efficient incremental optimization of 3D Gaussian Splatting models and achieves a 24% relative improvement in SSIM with just 120 seconds of additional optimization on the Mip-NeRF360 dataset.
In light-field (LF) imaging systems, dense spatial sampling from a camera array enables powerful post-capture capabilities such as refocusing and depth estimation. However, real-world LF capture is often affected by hardware malfunctions, where one or more cameras in the array fail, leading to missing sub-aperture images and degraded reconstruction quality. This paper addresses the problem of defective or missing view restoration in light-field camera arrays. We propose a novel generative framework that synthesizes the absent views by exploiting information from a carefully selected subset of neighboring cameras. These selected images, along with a positional encoding map indicating both their locations and the desired target view, are fed into a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) trained to generate the missing viewpoint in a geometrically consistent manner. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world LF datasets demonstrate that our method produces visually plausible and photometrically accurate reconstructions, outperforming baselines for view interpolation both quantitatively and qualitatively. The proposed framework thus offers a robust and efficient solution for fault-tolerant light-field image acquisition.
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This work proposes GSPotential, a framework that quantifies view-space supervision imbalance using a Camera Potential Field, and uses the potential field to guide reconstruction from two complementary aspects.
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This work aligns monocular estimates with valid multi-view geometric depths and verify their consistency to identify reliable geometric anchors, which support consistency-aware pruning and depth supervision, and aligned mono-only estimates and RGB-D joint optimization improves appearance fidelity and geometric consistency under sparse-view supervision.
Large-scale training and refined optimization techniques have greatly improved sparse multi-view 3D reconstruction. Despite their relevance to surgery, such methods have never before been rigorously evaluated on real endoscopic images. Current clinical telerobots deploy a single stereo camera inside the patient, making multi-viewpoint data extremely rare. This paper presents MV-dVRK, the first ex-vivo surgical dataset to combine multiple exposure-synchronized stereo viewpoints with accurate surface geometry and camera poses. The static subset of the benchmark provides dense SfM reference geometry, validated against an industrial 3D scanner, together with ground-truth camera poses and sparse-view test sets. We use MV-dVRK to systematically compare zero-shot monocular, stereo, multi-stereo, and multi-view 3D reconstruction methods as the number of viewpoints increases. With two endoscopes, multi-stereo reconstruction achieves the highest coverage. With a third viewpoint, optimization-based multi-view methods perform best, covering 67% of ground-truth surface points within a 1 mm tolerance and recovering highly accurate relative camera poses. By contrast, feed-forward foundation models cover only 43% of the ground-truth surface in the same setting. MV-dVRK also includes ten dynamic sequences spanning multiple surgical tasks, with increasing kinematic complexity and tissue deformation, providing a basis for future research in multi-viewpoint surgical perception. The project is available at: https://mv-dvrk.is.mpg.de.
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This work proposes a novel 3D-aware video restoration framework designed to enhance the quality of sparse 3DGS reconstruction and introduces a camera-conditioned geometric prior that guides the network toward geometrically grounded restoration that remains coherent across viewpoints.
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