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Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second research paper by Apple, 2025

Apple · Multimodal and robotics · Dec 11, 2025 · 32 citations · 31 upvotes · unverified

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SHARP synthesizes photorealistic views from a single image using a 3D Gaussian representation, achieving state-of-the-art results with rapid processing.

By Lars Mescheder, Wei Dong, Shiwei Li and 10 more · arXiv 2512.10685 · PDF · Code

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About this paper
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International Conference on Learning Representations
Citations
32, 7 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
31 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 9, 2026Citations rose from 30 to 32.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 6 to 7.
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CitationsOct 12, 2026Citations rose from 25 to 26.
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