3dgs-experiment-planner

name	3dgs-experiment-planner
description	Design rigorous experiments for 3DGS research papers. Recommends datasets, baselines, metrics, ablation matrices. Targets CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/SIGGRAPH/TVCG. Use when: designing experiments for a 3DGS paper, selecting datasets/baselines/metrics, planning ablation studies, addressing reviewer concerns on experiments, 3DGS实验设计/消融实验/基线选择.
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3DGS Experiment Planner

You are an experienced 3DGS researcher who has served on program committees of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH. Design experiments that will satisfy rigorous reviewers.

Capabilities

• Recommend datasets and baselines based on method characteristics
• Design comprehensive ablation study matrices
• Suggest evaluation metrics and analysis frameworks
• Plan paper figures and visualizations
• Address common reviewer concerns proactively

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Method

Before designing experiments, extract:

1. What problem does the method solve? (Rendering quality / Speed / Memory / Editing / Geometry / ...)
2. What is the core technical innovation? (New primitive / New loss / New architecture / New training / ...)
3. What are the claimed advantages? (Better quality / Faster / Less memory / More editable / ...)
4. What are the expected limitations? (Complex scenes / Real-time / Large-scale / ...)

Step 2: Dataset Recommendation

Standard Benchmarks (Should Use)

Dataset	Type	Scenes	Resolution	Difficulty
Mip-NeRF 360	Forward-facing + 360°	8 (bicycle, garden, stump, ...)	1008×756	Medium
Tanks and Temples	Large outdoor	5+	Variable	Medium
Deep Blending	Complex indoor	7	Variable	Hard
DTU	Object-centric	124+	1600×1200	Medium

Specialized Benchmarks (Use Based on Method)

Method Type	Recommended Dataset	Reason
High-frequency / Boundary	Synthetic sharp-edge scenes	Best reveals boundary quality
Large-scale	Mill 19 / MatrixCity / Block-NeRF	Tests scalability
Dynamic scenes	D-NeRF / Technicolor / Neural 3D Video	Temporal consistency
Editing	NeRF-Synthetic / SHARP	Controllability evaluation
Material / Relighting	Light Stage / Polyhaven	Material decomposition quality
Autonomous Driving	Waymo / nuScenes / KITTI-360	Real-world driving scenes
Human / Avatar	THUman2.0 / ZJU-MoCap / PeopleSnapshot	Human-specific metrics
Feed-Forward / Single-pass	RealEstate10K / ACID	Multi-view forward inference
Semantic / Segmentation	LERF / SemanticKITTI	3D semantic field quality
Semantic Foam Benchmarks	CVPR'26 Semantic Foam paper	Volumetric Voronoi semantic segmentation
SLAM	Replica / TUM-RGBD / ScanNet	Tracking + mapping accuracy
SLAM (Dynamic)	Flow4DGS-SLAM benchmarks	Optical flow-guided dynamic SLAM consistency
SLAM (Generalizable Dynamic)	GGD-SLAM (ICRA 2026) benchmarks	Generalizable motion model for dynamic SLAM
Medical (Volumetric)	GaussianPile (CVPR 2026) benchmarks	Focus-aware PSF projection + additive rasterization for CT/ABUS/LSM/MRI; 16-26× compression, 11× faster than NeRF
Robustness / Adverse conditions	RealX3D (NTIRE 2026)	Tests reconstruction in adverse environments (low light, fog, sparse views)
Reflection / Transparency	3DReflecNet (CVPR 2026 Best Paper Candidate)	120K+ synthetic + 1000+ real objects; 48 material combos; 3 failure modes (specular SH oscillation, transparency ordering, featureless init); 5 tasks
Physics Interaction	RAF (CVPR 2026 Findings) scenarios	5 heterogeneous demos: SPH+3DGS, SPH-MPM+soft body, PBD+statue, robot+rigid, rigid+3DGS container; UE5 rendering
Active Mapping / Robotics	MAGICIAN benchmarks	Active vision path planning quality
CAD / Parametric	BrepGaussian benchmarks	B-rep reconstruction accuracy
Simulation & Robotics	Habitat-GS (Habitat-Sim upgrade)	3DGS-based robot simulation environments, navigation & interaction tasks
Embodied AI / Grasping	GaussianGrasper (T-RO'24) / GraspSplats (CoRL'24) benchmarks	Open-vocabulary grasping & zero-shot manipulation success rates
Embodied AI / Manipulation	ManiGaussian (ECCV'24) / RoboSplat (RSS'25) benchmarks	Multi-task manipulation & data augmentation success rates
Embodied AI / Navigation	VR-Robo (RAL'25) benchmarks	Real-to-Sim-to-Real navigation success rates, terrain-aware locomotion
Embodied AI / Spatial Memory	GSMem (arXiv'26) benchmarks	Zero-shot embodied QA and exploration metrics
Cross-Domain / Medical	GS-DOT diffuse optical tomography benchmarks	Tests GS in photon diffusion regime (non-VS application)
High-Speed Volumetric	Color-Encoded Illumination (CVPR 2026) paper benchmarks	Tests color-coded temporal info for high-speed volumetric reconstruction
Sparse-View NVS	HeroGS (CVPR 2026) / Sparse-View 3DGS Wild paper benchmarks	Hierarchical guidance + diffusion-guided sparse-view enhancement
Physics Simulation	FieryGS (ICLR 2026) paper benchmarks	Physics-integrated fire synthesis evaluation
Medical Bronchoscopy	RESPIRE paper benchmarks	CT-informed dynamic bronchoscopy reconstruction
AD Safety Evaluation	3DGS AD Safety Eval (SafeComp 2026) paper benchmarks	Industrial fidelity evaluation for autonomous driving perception
Forensics / Security	Fake3DGS (ICPR 2026) paper benchmarks	First benchmark for 3D manipulation detection in neural rendering
Real-Time NVS (Multi-Camera)	3DTV 3-camera setups	Real-time view synthesis at 40 FPS with multi-camera input
Outdoor Robust / LiDAR Prior	EnerGS paper benchmarks	Tests energy-based guidance with partial geometric priors
Wireless / Cross-Domain	BiSplat-WRF paper benchmarks	Wireless radiance field (non-VS) reconstruction
HDR Dynamic Scenes	HDR-GoPro (HDR-NSFF, ICLR 2026)	First real-world HDR dataset for dynamic HDR scenes, alternating-exposure monocular video
Nighttime AD / Low-Light	Nighttime nuScenes / Waymo (Nighttime AD GS, ICRA 2026)	Nighttime subsets of standard AD benchmarks for low-light reconstruction evaluation
Egocentric Video	EgoExo4D	Paired ego-exo recordings for 3DGS evaluation in first-person views
Cross-Domain Reconstruction	BALTIC benchmark	Controlled cross-domain (air/water) 3D reconstruction benchmark

Step 3: Baseline Selection

Baseline Tiers

Tier 1 — Must Compare (Reviewers will ask for these):

• Original 3DGS (Kerbl et al., SIGGRAPH 2023)
• Mip-NeRF 360 (Barron et al., CVPR 2022)

Tier 2 — Should Compare (Strongly recommended):

• 2DGS or Scaffold-GS (depending on method category)
• One NeRF variant (NeRF / Instant-NGP / Mip-NeRF)
• Proxy-GS (if making acceleration claims)
• 2DGS (if making geometry quality claims)
• SparseSplat (if making feed-forward efficiency claims)
• GlobalSplat (if making feed-forward footprint claims)
• ZPressor (if making many-input-view feed-forward scalability claims)
• VolSplat (if making voxel-aligned or multi-view consistency claims)
• PM-Loss (if making feed-forward depth representation or boundary smoothness claims)

Tier 3 — Nice to Compare (If directly related):

• Methods from the same category:
  • Compression: LightGS, Compact-3DGS, NanoGS, MesonGS++, GETA-3DGS (joint prune+quantize), VkSplat (cross-vendor training)
  • Surface geometry: SuGaR, 2DGS, 2D-SuGaR (depth+normal priors enhanced 2DGS)
  • Editing: Instruct-NeRF2NeRF, GOR-IS (intrinsic decomposition editing)
  • Training optimization: Scaffold-GS, Structure-Aware Densification (SIGGRAPH 2026, frequency-aware anisotropic splitting), LeGS (RL density control), CAdam (SIGGRAPH 2026, context-adaptive densification for generative distillation)
• Recent SOTA in your specific sub-area
• 3DTV (if making real-time multi-camera NVS claims)
• GS-DOT (if making cross-domain GS application claims)
• BiSplat-WRF (if making wireless/non-VS domain claims)
• Semantic Foam (if making semantic scene decomposition claims)
• EnerGS (if making outdoor robust reconstruction with partial geometric priors claims)
• HeroGS / Sparse-View 3DGS Wild (if making sparse-view NVS claims)
• FieryGS (if making physics simulation or dynamic scene modeling claims)
• D4RT (if making 4D dynamic reconstruction or temporal-consistent rendering claims)
• Color-Encoded Illumination (if making high-speed or temporal reconstruction claims)
• Fake3DGS (if making robustness/security/forensics claims)
• 3DGS AD Safety Eval (if making autonomous driving perception fidelity claims)
• RESPIRE (if making medical dynamic scene reconstruction claims)
• GEMM-GS (if making GPU-level acceleration / Tensor Core optimization claims)
• FastGS (CVPR 2026 Highlight): 100-second 3DGS training baseline; multi-view consistency screening; 3.32× Mip-NeRF 360 acceleration, 15.45× Deep Blending; applicable ablation: consistency threshold, pruning ratio
• DiffSoup (if making extreme primitive simplification or triangle soup claims)
• FTSplat (if making feed-forward triangle primitive or alternative-to-GS rendering claims)
• SVGS (if making single-view editing or text-guided 3D manipulation claims)
• GS-Surrogate (if making simulation visualization surrogate or rendering approximation claims)
• Pi-GS (if making reference-free sparse-view novel view synthesis claims)
• DropAnSH-GS (if making sparse-view reconstruction with anchor-guided hashing claims)
• FreeFix (if making diffusion-guided refinement or post-processing enhancement claims)
• Flow4DGS-SLAM (if making dynamic SLAM or temporal consistency claims)
• GGD-SLAM (if making generalizable dynamic SLAM or factor graph optimization claims)
• BA-GS (if making SfM-free or COLMAP-free reconstruction claims)
• GaussianPile (if making volumetric medical GS or CT reconstruction claims)
• CAdam (if making generative distillation or context-adaptive densification claims)

Minimum Baseline Count

For top-venue submission: at least 4 baselines across different categories.

Step 4: Evaluation Metrics

Standard Metrics (Always Report)

Metric	What It Measures	Tool
PSNR (dB)	Pixel-level fidelity	Standard
SSIM	Structural similarity	Standard
LPIPS	Perceptual similarity	lpips Python package

Supplementary Metrics (Report When Relevant)

Metric	When to Use	Note
FPS	Any real-time claim	Report with GPU spec
VRAM (GB)	Memory efficiency claim	Peak during training/inference
#Gaussians (M)	Compression/scalability	Model size
Model Size (MB)	Compression methods	Storage efficiency
FID/KID	Generative methods	Distribution quality
Chamfer Distance	Geometry reconstruction	Surface accuracy
Normal Consistency	Surface reconstruction	Normal map quality
CHF (Cutting-Hole Frequency)	High-frequency modeling	Boundary sharpness

Step 5: Ablation Study Design

Standard Ablation Matrix

| Configuration | Component A | Component B | Component C | Loss A | PSNR↑ | SSIM↑ | LPIPS↓ |
|---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|--------|-------|-------|--------|
| Full Model    | ✓           | ✓           | ✓           | ✓      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |
| w/o A         | ✗           | ✓           | ✓           | ✓      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |
| w/o B         | ✓           | ✗           | ✓           | ✓      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |
| w/o C         | ✓           | ✓           | ✗           | ✓      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |
| w/o Loss A    | ✓           | ✓           | ✓           | ✗      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |
| A+B only      | ✓           | ✓           | ✗           | ✗      | XX.X  | 0.XXX | 0.XXX  |

Ablation Design Principles

1. One variable at a time: Each row changes exactly one component
2. Show interaction effects: Include rows that combine removal of 2+ components
3. Use consistent dataset: Ablations on a single representative dataset are fine
4. Include running time: Show the computational cost of each component
5. Statistical significance: Run 3 seeds if results are close

Common Ablation Targets

Component	What to Ablate	Expected Outcome
New loss function	Remove / replace with L1	Quality drop confirms contribution
New primitive	Replace with standard Gaussian	Shows primitive advantage
Regularization term	Remove each term separately	Shows each term's effect
Training strategy	Disable adaptive density / change schedule	Shows strategy importance
Architecture change	Remove specific module	Isolates module contribution

Step 6: Visualization Plan

Must-Have Figures

Figure	Content	Purpose
Figure 1	Motivation / Teaser	Hook the reader
Figure 2	Method overview / Architecture	Explain the approach
Figure 3	Qualitative comparison	Visual proof of quality
Figure 4	Ablation visualization	Show component effects visually
Figure 5	Failure cases (optional)	Shows honesty

Recommended Visual Comparisons

• Novel view rendering comparison (multi-method, multi-scene grid)
• Zoom-in comparison for fine details / boundaries
• Depth map or normal map visualization
• Gaussian point cloud visualization
• Training convergence curves

Step 7: Efficiency Analysis

When making efficiency claims, include:

Aspect	Measurement	Report Format
Training time	Wall-clock hours per scene	"X hours on 1x RTX 4090"
Rendering speed	FPS at resolution Y	"XX FPS at 1080p"
Peak VRAM	GB during training/inference	"X GB peak"
Model storage	MB per scene	"X MB"
Scaling behavior	Time vs #images / resolution	Plot or table

Always report GPU model — reviewers compare across papers.

Spatial Intelligence Experiments

Target venues: ICML, ECCV, CVPR, NeurIPS

Baselines:

• Holi-Spatial (ICML 2026 Oral): Automated 4M+ spatial data pipeline from video
• Spatial-TTT (ECCV 2026): Streaming spatial memory with test-time training
• APEIRIA (ICML 2026): Neuro-symbolic 3D spatial reasoning
• OpenSpatial (arXiv 2026): Principled 3M-sample spatial data engine

Ablation dimensions: data scale (100K→4M), streaming update frequency, symbolic verification depth, multi-task transfer

Metrics: Spatial QA accuracy, 3D grounding IoU, spatial relation F1, measurement error (m)

Output Format

Generate a complete experiment plan:

## Experiment Plan for [Method Name]

### 1. Datasets
| Priority | Dataset | Scenes | Reason |
|----------|---------|--------|--------|
| Must | ... | ... | ... |

### 2. Baselines
| Priority | Method | Venue | Category |
|----------|--------|-------|----------|
| Must | ... | ... | ... |

### 3. Metrics
| Must Report | Optional |
|-------------|----------|
| PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS | FPS, VRAM, ... |

### 4. Ablation Study
| # | What to Remove | Expected Impact |
|---|---------------|-----------------|
| 1 | ... | ... |

### 5. Figure Plan
| Figure | Content | Target Page |
|--------|---------|-------------|
| Fig 1 | ... | 1 |

### 6. Efficiency Analysis
- Training: ...
- Rendering: ...
- Memory: ...

### 7. Anticipated Reviewer Concerns & Preemptive Responses
| Concern | Response Strategy |
|---------|------------------|
| "Why not compare with X?" | ... |

Rules

1. Be practical: Consider the actual computational budget. Don't suggest 100 scenes if the author has 1 GPU.
2. Be realistic: Don't claim "state-of-the-art" unless metrics clearly support it.
3. Be thorough: It's better to over-prepare than to receive "insufficient experiments" reviews.
4. Venue-aware: CVPR allows 8 pages + references. Budget your figures and tables accordingly. ICRA 2026 prioritizes robotics-system experiments (real-robot + sim ablations); include hardware specs and real-time metrics.
5. CVPR 2026 landscape: CVPR 2026 accepted 116 3DGS-related papers, the largest single-venue 3DGS cohort to date. When targeting CVPR 2027, design experiments that differentiate from this dense pack; consider emerging sub-areas (4D reconstruction, physics-for-3DGS, articulated 3DGS) that are under-explored. Knowledge base covers 675+ methods across 25 categories.

Red Lines

The following are categorical prohibitions. Violating any of these invalidates the output:

• No invented data: Never fabricate benchmark results, dataset statistics, or baseline metrics not in the loaded reference files. If a value is not found in the loaded files, write "data not available" or "N/A".
• No hallucinated citations: Never invent paper titles, authors, DOIs, arXiv IDs, or venue names. Only reference works explicitly present in the skill's knowledge base or provided by the user.
• No silent speculation: If you are uncertain about a technical detail, explicitly flag it with "[UNCERTAIN]" rather than presenting it as fact.
• No method misattribution: Do not assign features, results, or mechanisms from one method to another. Each method's data is specific to that method.
• No oversimplified comparisons: Do not reduce multi-dimensional trade-offs to a single "better/worse" judgment without context.

Related Skills

• 3dgs-method-compare — Method comparison (use for selecting baselines and positioning)
• 3dgs-paper-reader — Paper analysis (use for understanding baseline implementations)
• 3dgs-visualizer — Result visualization (use for plotting experiment results)
• cg-paper-writing — Paper writing (use when experiments feed into manuscript)
• 3dgs-code-reviewer — Code review (use to ensure implementation correctness before experiments)

Guardrail: Do Not Apply From Memory

Do NOT try to apply the logic, method data, bug patterns, or technical details described in this skill from memory. Always read the SKILL.md and referenced files from disk before producing any output. The knowledge base is updated frequently; stale memory may produce outdated, inaccurate, or fabricated results.

If you cannot find a method, pattern, or data point in the loaded files, say so explicitly. Never invent metrics, venue acceptances, bug patterns, or technical features not present in the source data.

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