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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have emerged as powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and SLAM tasks. However, their performance depends heavily on accurate camera pose priors. Existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proven to be powerful 3D representations, capable of high quality novel view synthesis of complex scenes. While NeRFs have been applied to graphics, vision, and robotics, problems with slow rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Ashkan Mirzaei , Marcus A. Brubaker , Jonathan Kelly , Alex Levinshtein , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Igor Gilitschenski

Autonomous safe navigation in unstructured and novel environments poses significant challenges, especially when environment information can only be provided through low-cost vision sensors. Although safe reactive approaches have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Satyajeet Das , Yifan Xue , Haoming Li , Nadia Figueroa

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a popular option for photo-realistic object capture due to their ability to faithfully capture high-fidelity volumetric content even from handheld video input. Although much research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Binglun Wang , Niladri Shekhar Dutt , Niloy J. Mitra

Neural radiance field (NeRF), in particular its extension by instant neural graphics primitives, is a novel rendering method for view synthesis that uses real-world images to build photo-realistic immersive virtual scenes. Despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ke Li , Tim Rolff , Susanne Schmidt , Reinhard Bacher , Simone Frintrop , Wim Leemans , Frank Steinicke

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated very impressive performance in novel view synthesis via implicitly modelling 3D representations from multi-view 2D images. However, most existing studies train NeRF models with either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiahui Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Rongliang Wu , Yingchen Yu , Wenqing Zhang , Bai Song , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Achieving efficient and consistent localization a prior map remains challenging in robotics. Conventional keyframe-based approaches often suffers from sub-optimal viewpoints due to limited field of view (FOV) and/or constrained motion, thus…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have been remarkably successful at synthesizing novel views of 3D scenes by optimizing a volumetric scene function. This scene function models how optical rays bring color information from a 3D object to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chaitanya Amballa , Sattwik Basu , Yu-Lin Wei , Zhijian Yang , Mehmet Ergezer , Romit Roy Choudhury

In the realm of autonomous driving, achieving precise 3D reconstruction of the driving environment is critical for ensuring safety and effective navigation. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown promise in creating highly detailed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Xiaochao Pan , Jiawei Yao , Hongrui Kou , Tong Wu , Canran Xiao

Neural radiance field (NeRF) has achieved impressive results in high-quality 3D scene reconstruction. However, NeRF heavily relies on precise camera poses. While recent works like BARF have introduced camera pose optimization within NeRF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yunlong Ran , Yanxu Li , Qi Ye , Yuchi Huo , Zechun Bai , Jiahao Sun , Jiming Chen

We present NeRFVS, a novel neural radiance fields (NeRF) based method to enable free navigation in a room. NeRF achieves impressive performance in rendering images for novel views similar to the input views while suffering for novel views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chen Yang , Peihao Li , Zanwei Zhou , Shanxin Yuan , Bingbing Liu , Xiaokang Yang , Weichao Qiu , Wei Shen

In the realm of digital situational awareness during disaster situations, accurate digital representations, like 3D models, play an indispensable role. To ensure the safety of rescue teams, robotic platforms are often deployed to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Hartmut Surmann , Niklas Digakis , Jan-Nicklas Kremer , Julien Meine , Max Schulte , Niklas Voigt

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are able to synthesize realistic novel views from multi-view images captured from distinct positions and perspectives. In NeRF's rendering pipeline, neural networks are used to represent a scene independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kang Han , Wei Xiang , Lu Yu

Considering the problem of novel view synthesis (NVS) from only a set of 2D images, we simplify the training process of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) on forward-facing scenes by removing the requirement of known or pre-computed camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zirui Wang , Shangzhe Wu , Weidi Xie , Min Chen , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Autonomously navigating a robot in everyday crowded spaces requires solving complex perception and planning challenges. When using only monocular image sensor data as input, classical two-dimensional planning approaches cannot be used.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Daniel Dugas , Olov Andersson , Roland Siegwart , Jen Jen Chung

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a deep learning technique that can generate novel views of 3D scenes using sparse 2D images from different viewing directions and camera poses. As an extension of conventional NeRFs in underwater…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Haojie Lian , Xinhao Li , Yilin Qu , Jing Du , Zhuxuan Meng , Jie Liu , Leilei Chen

We propose a novel visual re-localization method based on direct matching between the implicit 3D descriptors and the 2D image with transformer. A conditional neural radiance field(NeRF) is chosen as the 3D scene representation in our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jianlin Liu , Qiang Nie , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang

Recent work on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) exploits multi-view 3D consistency, achieving impressive results in 3D scene modeling and high-fidelity novel-view synthesis. However, there are limitations. First, existing methods assume enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mengfei Li , Ming Lu , Xiaofang Li , Shanghang Zhang

This paper investigates the utility of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) models in extending the regions of operation of a mobile robot, controlled by Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) via static CCTV cameras. Using NeRF as a 3D-representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Daoxin Zhong , Luke Robinson , Daniele De Martini

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau