Generalizable Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction from Unconstrained Images

Vinayak Gupta, Chih-Hao Lin, Shenlong Wang, Anand Bhattad, Jia-Bin Huang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 33217-33226

Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse, unposed images remains challenging under real-world conditions with varying illumination and transient occlusions. Existing methods rely on scene-specific optimization with appearance embeddings or dynamic masks, requiring extensive per-scene training and failing under sparse views. Moreover, evaluations on limited scenes raise questions about generalization. We present GenWildSplat, a feed-forward framework for sparse-view outdoor reconstruction that requires no per-scene optimization. Given unposed internet images, GenWildSplat predicts depth, camera parameters, and 3D Gaussians in a canonical space using learned geometric priors. An appearance adapter modulates appearance for target lighting conditions, while semantic segmentation handles transient objects. Through curriculum learning on synthetic and real data, GenWildSplat generalizes across diverse illumination and occlusion patterns. Evaluations on PhotoTourism and a new 20-scene MegaScenes benchmark demonstrate state-of-the-art feed-forward reconstruction quality, achieving real-time inference without test-time optimization.