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arxiv: 2606.29782 · v1 · pith:R6ALIDI2new · submitted 2026-06-29 · 💻 cs.CV

Graph-GSReg: Leveraging 3D Scene Graphs for Gaussian Splatting Registration

Jaewon Lee , Mangyu Kong , Euntai Kim This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords 3D Gaussian Splattingscene graphregistration3D scene merginggraph registrationtest-time optimizationvisual consistency
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3D Gaussian Splatting registration is reformulated as graph registration by first building a scene graph from the Gaussians and rendered images.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows how to merge separate 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes by constructing a 3D scene graph that encodes both the Gaussian primitives and the images rendered from them. This step turns the original alignment task into a graph registration problem, supplying a higher-level view that incorporates semantic labels and spatial relations. A subsequent self-supervised optimization step then adjusts the merged Gaussians to remove hollows and floaters that appear in naive unions. The approach is positioned as an alternative to methods that either train large correspondence networks or depend on coarse pose guesses from external models. If the graph step succeeds, registration accuracy improves through global structural consistency rather than local primitive matching alone.

Core claim

The central claim is that a 3D scene graph built from a 3DGS representation and its rendered images supplies a higher-level abstraction that reformulates 3DGS registration as a graph registration problem, thereby capturing semantic information and structural context for accurate alignment; a self-supervised test-time optimization is then applied to the merged Gaussians to enforce visual consistency and eliminate occlusion artifacts.

What carries the argument

The 3D scene graph constructed from Gaussian primitives and rendered images, which converts the registration task into graph alignment.

If this is right

  • Multiple 3DGS scenes can be aligned into a single unified representation without training on large 3DGS datasets.
  • Registration benefits from globally consistent semantic and structural context rather than direct primitive correspondences.
  • Self-supervised refinement removes occlusion artifacts that arise from simple union of scenes.
  • The resulting merged scenes achieve competitive accuracy and rendering quality on both real and synthetic data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same graph-construction step could be applied to other explicit 3D representations such as point clouds or meshes to obtain similar structural priors.
  • Incremental addition of new scenes might become feasible by updating only the affected graph nodes rather than recomputing the entire alignment.
  • Failure modes in low-texture or repetitive environments could be diagnosed by inspecting mismatches in the extracted scene-graph edges.

Load-bearing premise

The scene graph extracted from the Gaussians and their images will reliably encode the semantic and structural cues required to solve the original registration problem.

What would settle it

A direct test on standard real and synthetic 3DGS benchmarks where the graph-derived transformations deviate substantially from ground-truth poses or where the refined merged scene still exhibits persistent floaters and hollows visible in novel views.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.29782 by Euntai Kim, Jaewon Lee, Mangyu Kong.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Graph-GSReg performs 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) registration using 3D scene graphs. Given two partially overlapping 3DGSs, the second column shows the 3D scene graphs constructed from each 3DGS. In the third column, the two scene graphs are matched, and consistent correspondences are obtained through maximum clique search, without erroneous matches. a massive number of Gaussian primitives, training a sin… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall architecture of Graph-GSReg. Starting from independently con￾structed 3DGS models, Graph-GSReg constructs an object-level 3D scene graph from the 3DGS scenes by associating the same objects across frames to form globally con￾sistent nodes (Sec. 3.2). It then aligns two scenes by matching their scene graphs to build a compatibility graph, where TRIMs-based filtering and clique selection produce reli… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: shows the node matching process in large-scale indoor environments with partial overlap, where the first row shows the initial nodes obtained from node association and the second row shows the correspondences after TRIMs￾based filtering and maximum clique selection. The structural agreement between the two final graphs shows that incorrect matches are effectively removed while preserving geometrically cons… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative results on the ScanNet-GSReg [4] dataset. Each row shows rendered images from merged Gaussians. The yellow box highlights regions with severe hollows or occlusions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative results on the uHumans2 [24] synthetic dataset. Each row shows rendered images from merged Gaussians. The yellow box highlights regions with severe hollows or occlusions. 3D Gaussian Splatting Merging. As discussed in Sec. 3.4, we also perform voxelization after registration before merging the two scenes. If the scenes are simply merged without any additional processing, a large number of dupli… view at source ↗
Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison without Test-Time Optimization. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Qualitative results of multiple-scene registration. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results on ScanNet-GSReg [2] showing how the opti [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: PSNR improvement during Test-Time Optimization. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation on the TRIMs threshold τTRIMs. We vary the threshold from 0.1 to 0.9 and evaluate the registration accuracy (RRE, RTE, RSE) and runtime. Larger thresholds relax the constraint, leading to lower accuracy and higher runtime. Larger thresholds therefore lead to higher runtime and lower accuracy. Based on this observation, we set τTRIMs = 0.1 in all experiments, as it provides the best trade-off betwe… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative results on ScanNet-GSReg [2]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative results on the Apartment and Office sequences from our uHumans2- based dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Merging multiple 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes into a single unified Gaussian representation is essential for large-scale 3D mapping and long-term map management. Despite its importance, this area remains underexplored, and existing solutions exhibit several limitations. Learning-based methods attempt direct correspondence between Gaussian primitives and require training on large 3DGS datasets. Image-based optimization methods depend heavily on coarse initialization from generic foundation models and often incur expensive refinement. We present \ourmodel. Our method constructs a 3D scene graph from a 3DGS and its rendered images, \textit{reformulating 3DGS registration as a graph registration problem}. The proposed 3D scene graph represents each 3DGS at a higher-level representation, enabling a globally consistent understanding of semantic information and structural context for accurate registration. To further construct a seamless unified scene, we introduce a Self-Supervised Test-Time Optimization. Naively merging two 3D Gaussian scenes often suffers from occlusion artifacts such as hollows and floaters. To alleviate this issue, we refine the merged Gaussians to preserve visual consistency between the original scenes and the merged scene. We evaluate our method on real and synthetic benchmarks, demonstrating competitive registration accuracy and merged scene rendering quality.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Graph-GSReg for merging multiple 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes. It constructs a 3D scene graph from each 3DGS and its rendered images, reformulating registration as a graph registration problem to leverage higher-level semantic and structural context. A self-supervised test-time optimization then refines the merged Gaussians to reduce occlusion artifacts such as hollows and floaters. The method is evaluated on real and synthetic benchmarks, claiming competitive registration accuracy and merged scene rendering quality.

Significance. If the graph reformulation reliably maps back to accurate primitive-level alignment without significant abstraction loss, the approach could reduce dependence on large training datasets or coarse foundation-model initializations, offering a more scalable path for large-scale 3D mapping and long-term map management.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method description): the central claim that the 3D scene graph enables 'accurate registration' by providing a 'higher-level representation' requires an explicit statement of how the solved graph transformation is applied to the original Gaussian primitives (positions, covariances, opacities). Without this mapping, multiple graph alignments remain consistent with the abstract graph yet produce misaligned primitives, and the subsequent self-supervised optimization is left to compensate without guaranteed convergence.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): the claim of 'competitive registration accuracy' is load-bearing for the reformulation's value, yet no quantitative tables, error metrics (e.g., rotation/translation RMSE), ablation on graph node/edge construction, or comparison against direct primitive matching are referenced; this prevents verification that the graph step, rather than the test-time optimization alone, drives the result.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Notation] Clarify notation for scene-graph nodes versus Gaussian primitives to avoid ambiguity when describing the reformulation.
  2. [Figure 1] Add a figure or diagram illustrating the graph construction pipeline and the mapping from graph solution back to 3DGS parameters.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of clarity and experimental rigor. We address each major comment point by point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method description): the central claim that the 3D scene graph enables 'accurate registration' by providing a 'higher-level representation' requires an explicit statement of how the solved graph transformation is applied to the original Gaussian primitives (positions, covariances, opacities). Without this mapping, multiple graph alignments remain consistent with the abstract graph yet produce misaligned primitives, and the subsequent self-supervised optimization is left to compensate without guaranteed convergence.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit description of the mapping is required for rigor. The manuscript implies the mapping through the graph registration but does not state it with sufficient detail in §3. In the revision we will add a paragraph specifying that the rigid transformation recovered from graph registration is applied directly to each Gaussian's mean position, the covariance is rotated by the same rotation matrix, and opacities are left unchanged. This ensures the graph solution produces a unique primitive-level alignment before test-time optimization begins. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): the claim of 'competitive registration accuracy' is load-bearing for the reformulation's value, yet no quantitative tables, error metrics (e.g., rotation/translation RMSE), ablation on graph node/edge construction, or comparison against direct primitive matching are referenced; this prevents verification that the graph step, rather than the test-time optimization alone, drives the result.

    Authors: The referee is correct that the current experimental section does not contain the requested quantitative tables or ablations. While the manuscript reports competitive performance on real and synthetic benchmarks, it relies primarily on qualitative results and aggregate statements rather than explicit RMSE tables, node/edge ablations, or direct comparisons to primitive-level baselines. We will expand §4 with these elements in the revision to isolate the contribution of the graph registration step. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; derivation chain is self-contained

full rationale

The provided abstract and description contain no equations, parameter-fitting steps, or self-citations that reduce any claimed prediction or result to its own inputs by construction. The method is described as constructing a scene graph from Gaussians and images, reformulating registration as a graph problem, then applying separate self-supervised test-time optimization; these are presented as sequential, independent operations without any load-bearing step that renames a fit, imports uniqueness via prior self-work, or defines the output in terms of the input. The central reformulation is a modeling choice whose validity can be evaluated externally against registration accuracy metrics, so the derivation does not collapse to tautology.

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