Dehaze-then-Splat: Generative Dehazing with Physics-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Smoke-Free Novel View Synthesis

Boss Chen, Hanqing Wang

We present Dehaze-then-Splat, a two-stage pipeline for multi-view smoke removal and novel view synthesis developed for Track~2 of the NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction C…