TRiGS: Temporal Rigid-Body Motion for Scalable 4D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv cs.CV / 4/2/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper argues that existing 4D Gaussian Splatting approaches often use piecewise linear velocity and short temporal windows, which causes temporal fragmentation and repeated primitive regeneration.
  • It introduces TRiGS, a unified continuous 4D representation that models rigid motion of primitives using SE(3) transformations, hierarchical Bezier residuals, and learnable local anchors.
  • By preserving continuous temporal identity for primitives, TRiGS reduces the proliferation of Gaussians and mitigates unbounded memory growth, improving scalability.
  • Experiments show TRiGS delivers high-fidelity rendering and can scale to much longer sequences (reported around 600–1200 frames) without severe memory bottlenecks, outperforming prior methods in temporal stability.

Abstract

Recent 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) methods achieve impressive dynamic scene reconstruction but often rely on piecewise linear velocity approximations and short temporal windows. This disjointed modeling leads to severe temporal fragmentation, forcing primitives to be repeatedly eliminated and regenerated to track complex nonlinear dynamics. This makeshift approximation eliminates the long-term temporal identity of objects and causes an inevitable proliferation of Gaussians, hindering scalability to extended video sequences. To address this, we propose TRiGS, a novel 4D representation that utilizes unified, continuous geometric transformations. By integrating SE(3) transformations, hierarchical Bezier residuals, and learnable local anchors, TRiGS models geometrically consistent rigid motions for individual primitives. This continuous formulation preserves temporal identity and effectively mitigates unbounded memory growth. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TRiGS achieves high fidelity rendering on standard benchmarks while uniquely scaling to extended video sequences (e.g., 600 to 1200 frames) without severe memory bottlenecks, significantly outperforming prior works in temporal stability.

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