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arxiv: 2604.10910 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-13 · 💻 cs.CV

STGV: Spatio-Temporal Hash Encoding for Gaussian-based Video Representation

Jierun Lin , Jiacong Chen , Qingyu Mao , Shuai Liu , Xiandong Meng , Fanyang Meng , Yongsheng Liang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords Gaussian SplattingVideo RepresentationHash EncodingSpatio-Temporal2DGSDynamic ScenesCanonical GaussiansVideo Reconstruction
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The pith

Decomposing video features into separate 2D spatial and 3D temporal hash encodings lets Gaussian splatting model static backgrounds and dynamic motion more accurately.

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

The paper introduces STGV to fix a core limitation in 2D Gaussian Splatting for videos: existing methods mix static and dynamic information through overlapping or content-agnostic embeddings, which hurts deformation accuracy. STGV instead splits the representation into independent learnable 2D spatial hash encodings for background details and 3D temporal hash encodings for motion patterns. It adds a key-frame-based initialization step that builds a stable starting set of canonical Gaussians without feature overlap or geometric incoherence. The authors show this yields higher-fidelity video reconstructions and remains competitive when the representation is used for editing or compression tasks.

Core claim

STGV decomposes video features into learnable 2D spatial and 3D temporal hash encodings to facilitate the learning of motion patterns for dynamic components while maintaining background details for static elements. In addition, it constructs a more stable and consistent initial canonical Gaussian representation through a key frame canonical initialization strategy, preventing feature overlapping and a structurally incoherent geometry representation.

What carries the argument

Spatio-temporal hash encoding that decomposes features into independent 2D spatial and 3D temporal components, paired with key-frame canonical initialization for the starting Gaussian primitives.

Load-bearing premise

That cleanly separating spatial and temporal hash encodings will isolate static and dynamic video elements without creating new inconsistencies or requiring per-video hyperparameter retuning.

What would settle it

A video clip containing strongly coupled static and dynamic elements, such as a walking person whose moving shadow alters the background texture, that shows no PSNR gain or introduces visible flickering when rendered with the decomposed encodings versus entangled baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.10910 by Fanyang Meng, Jiacong Chen, Jierun Lin, Qingyu Mao, Shuai Liu, Xiandong Meng, Yongsheng Liang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The visual comparison of utilizing different deformation fields for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall of our proposed method STGV. We first select the first frame from a GoP as the key-frame to perform coarse training to construct the canonical [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The visual comparison between Key Frame Canonical and Multi-frame [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visual comparison results. From left to right are yachtride, cows and boat video. Benefiting from Spatio-Temporal hash encoding and KFCI strategy, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The spatial interpolation visualization on Beauty and Honeybee. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Video inpainting visualization on cows and blackswan. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visual comparison of static hash encoding and dynamic encoding [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Results with different Gaussian Numbers. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of video denoising. TABLE VII QUANTITATIVE RESULTS COMPARISON ON THE UVG DATASET IN PSNR/MS-SSIM. Method Beauty Bosph. Honey. Jockey Ready. Shake. Yacht. Avg. NeRV 35.24/0.9446 33.95/0.9567 39.88/0.9924 34.07/0.9509 27.00/0.9324 34.98/0.9667 28.67/0.9212 33.40/0.9494 E-NeRV 35.82/0.9508 36.01/0.9760 39.06/0.9937 36.09/0.9710 30.30/0.9689 36.53/0.9790 31.34/0.9590 35.09/0.9712 2DGS 33.71/0.94… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visualization of reconstruction quality on Jockey, Readysteaygo, and Camel (from top to bottom). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has recently become a promising paradigm for high-quality video representation. However, existing methods employ content-agnostic or spatio-temporal feature overlapping embeddings to predict canonical Gaussian primitive deformations, which entangles static and dynamic components in videos and prevents modeling their distinct properties effectively. These result in inaccurate predictions for spatio-temporal deformations and unsatisfactory representation quality. To address these problems, this paper proposes a Spatio-Temporal hash encoding framework for Gaussian-based Video representation (STGV). By decomposing video features into learnable 2D spatial and 3D temporal hash encodings, STGV effectively facilitates the learning of motion patterns for dynamic components while maintaining background details for static elements. In addition, we construct a more stable and consistent initial canonical Gaussian representation through a key frame canonical initialization strategy, preventing from feature overlapping and a structurally incoherent geometry representation. Experimental results demonstrate that our method attains better video representation quality (+0.98 PSNR) against other Gaussian-based methods and achieves competitive performance in downstream video tasks.

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Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper proposes STGV, a framework for 2D Gaussian Splatting-based video representation. It decomposes video features into independent learnable 2D spatial hash encodings (for static background) and 3D temporal hash encodings (for dynamic motion), combined with a key-frame canonical initialization strategy to produce stable, non-overlapping Gaussian primitives. The central claim is that this separation yields higher-fidelity video reconstruction (+0.98 PSNR over prior Gaussian methods) while remaining competitive on downstream tasks such as video editing or interpolation.

Significance. If the quantitative gains are reproducible and the ablation evidence confirms that the spatio-temporal hash decomposition (rather than initialization alone) drives the improvement, the work would offer a practical advance in disentangling static/dynamic modeling within explicit 3D Gaussian representations. Hash encodings provide a compact, learnable alternative to MLP-based deformation fields, which could scale better to longer videos and support real-time applications.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the headline +0.98 PSNR claim is presented without any description of the experimental protocol, datasets, training-time controls, or model-size matching. No table or figure in the provided text isolates whether the gain survives when the key-frame initialization is held fixed while swapping only the hash decomposition.
  2. [§3.2, §4.3] §3.2 (Method) and §4.3 (Ablations): the manuscript does not contain an ablation that removes or replaces the spatio-temporal hash decomposition while retaining the key-frame initialization. Without this control, the load-bearing assumption that independent 2D/3D hash encodings cleanly separate static and dynamic components cannot be verified; the reported gain may be attributable to initialization alone.
  3. [§3.1] §3.1 (Canonical Initialization): the description of how key-frame Gaussians are constructed and how feature overlap is prevented is high-level; no equations or pseudocode specify the exact projection, culling, or optimization steps that guarantee structural coherence across frames.
minor comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] Notation for the 2D spatial and 3D temporal hash tables is introduced without a compact table summarizing input/output dimensions, hash resolution, and number of levels.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure 2 (qualitative results) would benefit from side-by-side error maps or zoomed insets highlighting regions where prior methods fail but STGV succeeds.
  3. [Related Work] The paper cites several recent 2DGS and 3DGS video works but omits direct comparison to recent non-Gaussian video NeRF or hash-based methods (e.g., recent extensions of Instant-NGP to video).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below. We agree that the manuscript would benefit from additional experimental details, a targeted ablation, and expanded technical descriptions, and we will incorporate these changes in the revised version.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the headline +0.98 PSNR claim is presented without any description of the experimental protocol, datasets, training-time controls, or model-size matching. No table or figure in the provided text isolates whether the gain survives when the key-frame initialization is held fixed while swapping only the hash decomposition.

    Authors: The experimental protocol, datasets (standard video benchmarks used for evaluation), training-time controls, and model-size matching are described in Section 4. We will revise the abstract to include a concise reference to the evaluation setup. To isolate the contribution of the spatio-temporal hash decomposition, we will add a new ablation in the revised §4.3 that holds the key-frame initialization fixed and varies only the hash encoding components. Results will be shown in an additional table comparing the full model against a variant without the decomposed encodings. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2, §4.3] §3.2 (Method) and §4.3 (Ablations): the manuscript does not contain an ablation that removes or replaces the spatio-temporal hash decomposition while retaining the key-frame initialization. Without this control, the load-bearing assumption that independent 2D/3D hash encodings cleanly separate static and dynamic components cannot be verified; the reported gain may be attributable to initialization alone.

    Authors: We agree that the current ablations in §4.3 do not include a control that removes the spatio-temporal hash decomposition while retaining the key-frame initialization. This control is necessary to verify the independent benefit of the 2D/3D decomposition for separating static and dynamic components. We will add this exact ablation experiment to the revised manuscript and report the results in §4.3 to demonstrate that the gains are not attributable to initialization alone. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (Canonical Initialization): the description of how key-frame Gaussians are constructed and how feature overlap is prevented is high-level; no equations or pseudocode specify the exact projection, culling, or optimization steps that guarantee structural coherence across frames.

    Authors: Section 3.1 provides a high-level description of the key-frame canonical initialization to emphasize its role in stability and overlap prevention. We acknowledge that more precise technical details are needed for reproducibility. In the revision, we will expand §3.1 with additional equations describing the projection and culling steps, as well as pseudocode for the optimization procedure that ensures structural coherence across frames. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: STGV proposes a novel decomposition and initialization without reducing claims to self-defined inputs or self-citation chains.

full rationale

The paper introduces STGV as a modeling framework that decomposes features into independent 2D spatial and 3D temporal hash encodings plus a key-frame canonical initialization strategy. No equations, derivations, or first-principles results are shown that equate a claimed prediction to its own fitted parameters or prior self-citations by construction. Performance gains are asserted via experimental comparison to other Gaussian-based methods rather than any self-referential loop. The central claims rest on the proposed architecture choices, which are independent of the reported metrics and do not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from the authors' own prior work as load-bearing justification.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The method implicitly assumes that hash encodings can be learned independently for space and time without cross-talk.

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