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3D Gaussian splatting has been widely adopted as a 3D representation for novel-view synthesis, relighting, and 3D generation tasks. It delivers realistic and detailed results through a collection of explicit 3D Gaussian primitives, each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xin Sun , Iliyan Georgiev , Yun Fei , Miloš Hašan

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Gaussian splatting has demonstrated excellent performance for view synthesis and scene reconstruction. The representation achieves photorealistic quality by optimizing the position, scale, color, and opacity of thousands to millions of 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Victor Rong , Jingxiang Chen , Sherwin Bahmani , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , David B. Lindell

The accurate reconstruction of dynamic street scenes is critical for applications in autonomous driving, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Traditional methods relying on dense point clouds and triangular meshes struggle with moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peizhen Zheng , Dongjing Jiang , Qingchong Jiao , Redouane EL Bouchtaoui , Flynnwell Jianfei Zhang

2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) is an emerging explicit scene representation method with significant potential for image compression due to high fidelity and high compression ratios. However, existing low-light enhancement algorithms operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuhan Chen , Wenxuan Yu , Guofa Li , Yijun Xu , Ying Fang , Yicui Shi , Long Cao , Wenbo Chu , Keqiang Li

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Gaussian Splatting (GS) enables immersive rendering, but realistic 3D object-scene composition remains challenging. Baked appearance and shadow information in GS radiance fields cause inconsistencies when combining objects and scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jian Gao , Mengqi Yuan , Yifei Zeng , Chang Zeng , Zhihao Li , Zhenyu Chen , Weichao Qiu , Xiao-Xiao Long , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Yao Yao

Radiance field-based methods have recently been used to reconstruct human avatars, showing that we can significantly downscale the systems needed for creating animated human avatars. Although this progress has been initiated by neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nikolaos Zioulis , Nikolaos Kotarelas , Georgios Albanis , Spyridon Thermos , Anargyros Chatzitofis

Reconstructing a 3D scene from images is challenging due to the different ways light interacts with surfaces depending on the viewer's position and the surface's material. In classical computer graphics, materials can be classified as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Mateusz Nowak , Wojciech Jarosz , Peter Chin

3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) enables highly photorealistic scene reconstruction from posed image sequences but struggles with viewpoint extrapolation due to its anisotropic nature, leading to overfitting and poor generalization, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuohan Tao , Boyao Zhou , Hanzhang Tu , Yuwang Wang , Yebin Liu

Recent work has shown that 3D Gaussian-based SLAM enables high-quality reconstruction, accurate pose estimation, and real-time rendering of scenes. However, these approaches are built on a tremendous number of redundant 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianchen Deng , Chang Nie , Shuhong Liu , Wenhua Wu , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Jiuming Liu , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

Neural rendering methods have significantly advanced photo-realistic 3D scene rendering in various academic and industrial applications. The recent 3D Gaussian Splatting method has achieved the state-of-the-art rendering quality and speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Tao Lu , Mulin Yu , Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

In computer graphics and vision, recovering easily modifiable scene appearance from image data is crucial for applications such as content creation. We introduce a novel method that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with an implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jakub Szymkowiak , Weronika Jakubowska , Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Maciej Zięba , Przemyslaw Musialski , Wojtek Pałubicki , Przemysław Spurek

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has established itself as a leading technique for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis of static scenes, achieving outstanding rendering quality and fast training. However, the method does not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Margherita Lea Corona , Wieland Morgenstern , Peter Eisert , Anna Hilsmann

Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated remarkable novel view synthesis performance at high rendering frame rates. Optimization-based inverse rendering within complex capture scenarios remains however a challenging problem. A particular case…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved remarkable success in image representation and compression, but they require substantial training time and memory. Meanwhile, recent 2D Gaussian Splatting (GS) methods (\textit{e.g.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tiantian Li , Xinjie Zhang , Xingtong Ge , Tongda Xu , Dailan He , Jun Zhang , Yan Wang

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Image representation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recently, Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation framework, and its extension to 2D image representation enables lightweight, yet expressive modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Masaya Takabe , Hiroshi Watanabe , Sujun Hong , Tomohiro Ikai , Zheming Fan , Ryo Ishimoto , Kakeru Sugimoto , Ruri Imichi

Relighting of human images enables post-photography editing of lighting effects in portraits. The current mainstream approach uses neural networks to approximate lighting effects without explicitly accounting for the principle of physical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Daichi Tajima , Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated exceptional performance in image-based 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, regions with complex textures require numerous Gaussians to capture significant color variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Binxiao Huang , Zhihao Li , Shiyong Liu , Xiao Tang , Jiajun Tang , Jiaqi Lin , Yuxin Cheng , Zhenyu Chen , Xiaofei Wu , Ngai Wong