Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second

Abstract

We present SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image. Given a single photograph, SHARP regresses the parameters of a 3D Gaussian representation of the depicted scene. This is done in less than a second on a standard GPU via a single feedforward pass through a neural network. The 3D Gaussian representation produced by SHARP can then be rendered in real time, yielding high-resolution photorealistic images for nearby views. The representation is metric, with absolute scale, supporting metric camera movements. Experimental results demonstrate that SHARP delivers robust zero-shot generalization across datasets. It sets a new state of the art on multiple datasets, reducing LPIPS by 25–34% and DISTS by 21–43% versus the best prior model, while lowering the synthesis time by three orders of magnitude.

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Views synthesized by SHARP

SHARP synthesizes a photorealistic 3D representation from a single photograph in less than a second. The synthesized representation supports high-resolution rendering of nearby views, with sharp details and fine structures, at more than 100 frames per second on a standard GPU. We illustrate on photographs from Unsplash.

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Citation

@inproceedings{Sharp2025:arxiv,
  title      = {Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second},
  author     = {Lars Mescheder and Wei Dong and Shiwei Li and Xuyang Bai and Marcel Santos and Peiyun Hu and Bruno Lecouat and Mingmin Zhen and Ama\"{e}l Delaunoyand Tian Fang and Yanghai Tsin and Stephan R. Richter and Vladlen Koltun},
  journal    = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10685},
  year       = {2025},
  url        = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685},
}