Instrument-Splatting++: Towards Controllable Surgical Instrument Digital Twin Using Gaussian Splatting
Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS)(生物医学工程系,新加坡国立大学);Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia(电气与计算机工程系,不列颠哥伦比亚大学)
Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Chengjiaao Liao, Qian Li, Daiyun Shen, Chang Han Low, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Yueming Jin
High-quality and controllable digital twins of surgical instruments are critical for Real2Sim in robot-assisted surgery, as they enable realistic simulation, synthetic data generation, and perception learning under novel poses. We present Instrument-Splatting++, a monocular 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) framework that reconstructs surgical instruments as a fully controllable Gaussian asset with high fidelity. Our pipeline starts with part-wise geometry pretraining that injects CAD priors into Gaussian primitives and equips the representation with part-aware semantic rendering. Built on the pretrained model, we propose a semantics-aware pose estimation and tracking (SAPET) method to recover per-frame 6-DoF pose and joint angles from unposed endoscopic videos, where a gripper-tip network trained purely from synthetic semantics provides robust supervision and a loose regularization suppresses singular articulations. Finally, we introduce Robust Texture Learning (RTL), which alternates pose refinement and robust appearance optimization, mitigating pose noise during texture learning. The proposed framework can perform pose estimation and learn realistic texture from unposed videos. We validate our method on sequences extracted from EndoVis17/18, SAR-RARP, and an in-house dataset, showing superior photometric quality and improved geometric accuracy over state-of-the-art baselines. We further demonstrate a downstream keypoint detection task where unseen-pose data augmentation from our controllable instrument Gaussian improves performance.
GaussTwin: Unified Simulation and Correction with Gaussian Splatting for Robotic Digital Twins
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt(德累斯顿技术大学智能自主系统实验室);German Research Center for AI (DFKI), SAIROL(德国人工智能研究中心(DFKI)SAIROL);Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)(德国机器人研究所);NAVER LABS Europe(NAVER LABS欧洲)
SurgCalib: Gaussian Splatting-Based Hand-Eye Calibration for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Robotics and Control Laboratory, University of British Columbia(机器人与控制实验室,不列颠哥伦比亚大学);Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore(生物医学工程系,新加坡国立大学);Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of British Columbia(耳鼻喉科–头颈外科部,不列颠哥伦比亚大学)
Advancing Dense Endoscopic Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting-driven Surface Normal-aware Tracking and Mapping
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)(香港中文大学);CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute(香港中文大学深圳研究院);Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院香港创新研究院);Qilu Hospital of Shandong University(山东大学齐鲁医院)
EndoFlow-SLAM: Real-Time Endoscopic SLAM with Flow-Constrained Gaussian Splatting
School of Advanced Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University(西安交通大学利物浦大学先进技术学院);School of AI and Advanced Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University(西安交通大学利物浦大学人工智能与高级计算学院);School of Physical Sciences, University of Liverpool(利物浦大学物理科学学院);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州))
Registering Neural 4D Gaussians for Endoscopic Surgery
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)(香港中文大学);Shenzhen Research Institute, CUHK(香港中文大学深圳研究院);KTH, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan Royal Institute of Technology(瑞典皇家理工学院);Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited(香港应用科技研究院有限公司)
Transforming Omnidirectional RGB-LiDAR data into 3D Gaussian Splatting
Department of Computer Science, State University of New York(计算机科学系,纽约州立大学);Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York(机械工程系,纽约州立大学)
EndoWave: 4D Gaussian Splatting with Rational Wavelet for Endoscopic Reconstruction
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西安交通大学利物浦大学);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科学与技术大学(广州));Zhejiang University of Technology(浙江工业大学)
GrowSplat: Constructing Temporal Digital Twins of Plants with Gaussian Splats
The AUTOLab at UC Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校AUTOLab);Siemens Research Lab(西门子研究实验室);Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre, Wageningen University and Research(荷兰植物生态表型中心,瓦赫宁根大学与研究中心)
RoboGSim: A Real2Sim2Real Robotic Gaussian Splatting Simulator
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);MEGVII Technology(商汤科技);Zhejiang University(浙江大学)