Yuxi Hu, Jun Zhang, Wei Mao, Yuchen Rao, Friedrich Fraundorfer
Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient generalizable novel view synthesis, but existing pixel-aligned methods often generate highly redundant Gaussian primitives, causing the final representation size and rendering cost to grow rapidly with image resolution and the number of input views. We propose BudgetSplat, a budget-controllable feed-forward framework that adapts the final Gaussian representation to a user-specified preservation ratio. Rather than treating compaction as simple importance ranking, we formulate it as a joint problem of importance estimation, spatial coverage, and cross-view redundancy. A single trained model supports varying numbers of context views and multiple test-time budgets without per-budget retraining or per-scene compression. To realize this formulation, Intra-Cross Mask Supervision provides structure-, coverage-, and redundancy-aware guidance for learning Gaussian importance, while budget-conditioned feature modulation adapts Gaussian opacity and attributes to the requested preservation ratio. Coverage-Aware Budget Selection further combines patch-wise pre-selection, view-wise opacity ranking, and 3D redundancy suppression to construct compact yet spatially distributed Gaussian representations. Experiments on indoor reconstruction and cross-dataset generalization demonstrate consistent quality--size trade-offs across different input view counts and preservation ratios, substantially reducing final representation storage and rendering cost while preserving rendering quality.
Yuxi Hu, Wenhao Dong, Jun Zhang, Friedrich Fraundorfer
Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) becomes increasingly difficult to scale to long multi-view sequences. Anchor-based compression methods such as ZPressor alleviate representation growth by decoding Gaussians only from a compact set of anchor feature maps, but keeping these anchors fixed forces each one to aggregate an increasing number of support views. We identify this representation--fusion mismatch and introduce \textbf{CrossPressor}, a training-free method for scalable anchor-based fusion. CrossPressor preserves all decoder-facing anchor queries while constraining the view-growing support sequence through coverage-cycled evidence routing, distributing retained spatial evidence across support views and fusion layers while keeping all support views represented. Routing before K/V projection, together with joint context packing, further reduces support-side fusion cost without retraining. CrossPressor maintains reconstruction quality close to dense fusion while achieving up to $26.12\times$ faster cross-view fusion and $1.43\times$ end-to-end acceleration on long input sequences. Our project page is at: https://yuhsihu.github.io/CrossPressor.