LDG: Lightweight Deformable 3D Gaussians for Single-View Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

Recent deformable 3D Gaussians methods achieve high-quality reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, they require multi-view information and are not applicable to single-view dynamic scenes captured from mobile phones. Additionally, the high-dimensional hidden layer of deformation MLP and the excessive number of Gaussian primitives and attributes impose significant storage pressure, greatly limiting their practical application. To address the issues, we propose a novel Lightweight Deformable 3D Gaussians teacher-student framework. Specifically, we initialize Gaussian primitives with an initialization strategy designed for single-view scenes, and then optimize the teacher model using color and depth information. For the trained teacher model, we distill deformation MLP, prune Gaussian primitives and Gaussian attributes, and finally obtain a student model with low storage and high efficiency. Public benchmark experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework, showing a compression rate exceeding 4× while maintaining satisfactory rendering quality. Project page: https://poyoki.github.io/ldg/.