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3D Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as an efficient solution for high-quality and real-time novel view synthesis. However, its capability for accurate surface reconstruction remains underexplored. Due to the discrete and unstructured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

In this paper we present a novel method for efficient and effective 3D surface reconstruction in open scenes. Existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based works typically require extensive training and rendering time due to the adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Gaochao Song , Chong Cheng , Hao Wang

Gaussian Splatting demonstrates impressive results in multi-view reconstruction based on Gaussian explicit representations. However, the current Gaussian primitives only have a single view-dependent color and an opacity to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Rui Xu , Wenyue Chen , Jiepeng Wang , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Shiqing Xin , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled photorealistic view synthesis at high inference speeds. However, its splatting-based rendering model makes several approximations to the rendering equation, reducing physical accuracy. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chinmay Talegaonkar , Yash Belhe , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Nicholas Antipa

Incremental scene reconstruction is essential to the navigation in robotics. Most of the conventional methods typically make use of either TSDF (truncated signed distance functions) volume or neural networks to implicitly represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shaofan Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Generalizable neural surface reconstruction has become a compelling technique to reconstruct from few images without per-scene optimization, where dense 3D feature volume has proven effective as a global representation of scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aoxiang Fan , Corentin Dumery , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

While 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in photorealistic novel view synthesis, its pursuit of fast and high-fidelity 3D reconstruction has long been constrained by a trade-off between geometric accuracy and optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhenhua Du , Zhen Tan , Haoyu Zhang , Dewen Hu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Peidong Liu

Many materials show anisotropic light scattering patterns due to the shape and local alignment of their underlying micro structures: surfaces with small elements such as fibers, or the ridges of a brushed metal, are very sparse and require…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Javier Fabre , Carlos Castillo , Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Jorge Lopez-Moreno

Fast, reliable shape reconstruction is an essential ingredient in many computer vision applications. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that photorealistic novel view synthesis is within reach, but was gated by performance requirements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leonid Keselman , Martial Hebert

Recent advances in feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting have led to rapid improvements in efficient scene reconstruction from sparse views. However, most existing approaches construct Gaussian primitives directly aligned with the pixels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yiming Wang , Lucy Chai , Xuan Luo , Michael Niemeyer , Manuel Lagunas , Stephen Lombardi , Siyu Tang , Tiancheng Sun

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made significant strides in novel view synthesis but is limited by the substantial number of Gaussian primitives required, posing challenges for deployment on lightweight devices. Recent methods address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhengqing Gao , Dongting Hu , Jia-Wang Bian , Huan Fu , Yan Li , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting represents a breakthrough in the field of novel view synthesis. It establishes Gaussians as core rendering primitives for highly accurate real-world environment reconstruction. Recent advances have drastically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jonathan Haberl , Philipp Fleck , Clemens Arth

Recent advancements in computer vision have successfully extended Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) to the 3D domain by leveraging 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Despite this progress, efficiently rendering the high-dimensional features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

Image-based 3D object detection aims to identify and localize objects in 3D space using only RGB images, eliminating the need for expensive depth sensors required by point cloud-based methods. Existing image-based approaches face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Lei Yao , Lap-Pui Chau

Differentiable rendering enables efficient optimization by allowing gradients to be computed through the rendering process, facilitating 3D reconstruction, inverse rendering and neural scene representation learning. To ensure…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Minye Wu , Haizhao Dai , Kaixin Yao , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jingyi Yu

We present MoGA, a novel method to reconstruct high-fidelity 3D Gaussian avatars from a single-view image. The main challenge lies in inferring unseen appearance and geometric details while ensuring 3D consistency and realism. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zijian Dong , Longteng Duan , Jie Song , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger

Generating a coherent 3D scene representation from multi-view images is a fundamental yet challenging task. Existing methods often struggle with multi-view fusion, leading to fragmented 3D representations and sub-optimal performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Junho Kim , Seongwon Lee

Volume data is found in many important scientific and engineering applications. Rendering this data for visualization at high quality and interactive rates for demanding applications such as virtual reality is still not easily achievable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 David Bauer , Qi Wu , Kwan-Liu Ma

We present a novel compression framework for 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) data that leverages transform coding tools originally developed for point clouds. Contrary to existing 3DGS compression methods, our approach can produce compressed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Chenjunjie Wang , Shashank N. Sridhara , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega , Cheng Chang

The problem of 3D reconstruction from posed images is undergoing a fundamental transformation, driven by continuous advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By modeling scenes explicitly as collections of 3D Gaussians, 3DGS enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Vitor Pereira Matias , Daniel Perazzo , Vinicius Silva , Alberto Raposo , Luiz Velho , Afonso Paiva , Tiago Novello