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. Code and weights are provided at https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp
@article{arxiv.2512.10685,
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 Amaël Delaunoy and Tian Fang and Yanghai Tsin and Stephan R. Richter and Vladlen Koltun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10685},
year = {2026}
}
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Published at ICLR 2026. Code and weights available at https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp