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Gaussian Splatting (GS) has become one of the most important neural rendering algorithms. GS represents 3D scenes using Gaussian components with trainable color and opacity. This representation achieves high-quality renderings with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Krzysztof Byrski , Grzegorz Wilczyński , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Piotr Borycki , Dawid Baran , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

Existing portrait relighting methods struggle with precise control over facial shadows, particularly when faced with challenges such as handling hard shadows from directional light sources or adjusting shadows while remaining in harmony…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Andrew Hou , Zhixin Shu , Xuaner Zhang , He Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jae Shin Yoon , Xiaoming Liu

We propose GRGS, a generalizable and relightable 3D Gaussian framework for high-fidelity human novel view synthesis under diverse lighting conditions. Unlike existing methods that rely on per-character optimization or ignore physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yipengjing Sun , Shengping Zhang , Chenyang Wang , Shunyuan Zheng , Zonglin Li , Xiangyang Ji

Moving target shadows among video synthetic aperture radar (Video-SAR) images are always interfered by low scattering backgrounds and cluttered noises, causing poor detec-tion-tracking accuracy. Thus, a shadow-background-noise 3D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaowo Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Tianwen Zhang , Zhenyu Yang , Jun Shi , Xu Zhan

Implicit neural representation methods have shown impressive advancements in learning 3D scenes from unstructured in-the-wild photo collections but are still limited by the large computational cost of volumetric rendering. More recently, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hiba Dahmani , Moussab Bennehar , Nathan Piasco , Luis Roldao , Dzmitry Tsishkou

We introduce BecomingLit, a novel method for reconstructing relightable, high-resolution head avatars that can be rendered from novel viewpoints at interactive rates. Therefore, we propose a new low-cost light stage capture setup, tailored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jonathan Schmidt , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Niessner

Virtual production (VP) use LED walls to provide both background imagery and image-based lighting. While this enables on-set compositing, it couples lighting to background and scene appearance, limiting flexibility for downstream editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adrian Azzarelli , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , James Pollock , David R. Bull

Lightweight creation of 3D digital avatars is a highly desirable but challenging task. With only sparse videos of a person under unknown illumination, we propose a method to create relightable and animatable neural avatars, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenbin Lin , Chengwei Zheng , Jun-Hai Yong , Feng Xu

Ray-tracing-based 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) methods overcome the limitations of rasterization -- rigid pinhole camera assumptions, inaccurate shadows, and lack of native reflection or refraction -- but remain slower due to the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Peiyu Xu , Xin Sun , Krishna Mullia , Raymond Fei , Iliyan Georgiev , Shuang Zhao

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

The introduction of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced novel view synthesis by utilizing Gaussians to represent scenes. Encoding Gaussian point features with anchor embeddings has significantly enhanced the performance of newer 3DGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyan Su , Baozhu Zhao , Xiaohan Zhang , Qi Liu

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown its detailed expressive ability and highly efficient rendering speed in the novel view synthesis (NVS) task. The application to inverse rendering still faces several challenges, as the discrete nature…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

Reconstructing complex reflections in real-world scenes from 2D images is essential for achieving photorealistic novel view synthesis. Existing methods that utilize environment maps to model reflections from distant lighting often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Tao Xie , Xi Chen , Zhen Xu , Yiman Xie , Yudong Jin , Yujun Shen , Sida Peng , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

In this paper, we present a novel differentiable point-based rendering framework to achieve photo-realistic relighting. To make the reconstructed scene relightable, we enhance vanilla 3D Gaussians by associating extra properties, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jian Gao , Chun Gu , Youtian Lin , Zhihao Li , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Li Zhang , Yao Yao

Previous surface reconstruction methods either suffer from low geometric accuracy or lengthy training times when dealing with real-world complex dynamic scenes involving multi-person activities, and human-object interactions. To tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shuo Wang , Binbin Huang , Ruoyu Wang , Shenghua Gao

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

We present GI-GS, a novel inverse rendering framework that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and deferred shading to achieve photo-realistic novel view synthesis and relighting. In inverse rendering, accurately modeling the shading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hongze Chen , Zehong Lin , Jun Zhang

Recent advancements in Gaussian Splatting have enabled increasingly accurate reconstruction of photorealistic head avatars, opening the door to numerous applications in visual effects, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. This, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kelian Baert , Mae Younes , Francois Bourel , Marc Christie , Adnane Boukhayma

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse portraits, but lack intuitive shadow control. Existing editing approaches, as post-processing, struggle to offer effective manipulation across diverse styles. Additionally, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Haoming Cai , Tsung-Wei Huang , Shiv Gehlot , Brandon Y. Feng , Sachin Shah , Guan-Ming Su , Christopher Metzler