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Over the past year, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has received significant attention for its ability to represent 3D scenes in a perceptually accurate manner. However, it can require a substantial amount of storage since each splat's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Brent Zoomers , Maarten Wijnants , Ivan Molenaers , Joni Vanherck , Jeroen Put , Lode Jorissen , Nick Michiels

Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between shadow and non-shadow images, in which the joint modeling of lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Fang Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

We introduce G-Style, a novel algorithm designed to transfer the style of an image onto a 3D scene represented using Gaussian Splatting. Gaussian Splatting is a powerful 3D representation for novel view synthesis, as -- compared to other…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Áron Samuel Kovács , Pedro Hermosilla , Renata G. Raidou

State-of-the-art neural rendering methods optimize Gaussian scene representations from a few photographs for novel-view synthesis. Building on these representations, we develop an efficient algorithm, dubbed Gaussian Wave Splatting, to turn…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Suyeon Choi , Brian Chao , Jacqueline Yang , Manu Gopakumar , Gordon Wetzstein

Recent developments in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have significantly propelled the capabilities of photo-realistic 3D scene rendering across various academic and industrial fields. The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique, alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zexu Huang , Min Xu , Stuart Perry

3D reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and the task is especially challenging when the object to reconstruct is partially or fully occluded. We introduce a method that uses the shadows cast by an unobserved object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Sachit Menon , Chengzhi Mao , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

Although significant progress has been made in reconstructing sharp 3D scenes from motion-blurred images, a transition to real-world applications remains challenging. The primary obstacle stems from the severe blur which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jeongtaek Oh , Jaeyoung Chung , Dongwoo Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

We present a neural extension of basic shadow mapping for fast, high quality hard and soft shadows. We compare favorably to fast pre-filtering shadow mapping, all while producing visual results on par with ray traced hard and soft shadows.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Sayantan Datta , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christoph Schied , Zhao Dong

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao

Modeling relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular video is a long-standing and challenging task. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have been employed to reconstruct the avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Seonghwa Choi , Moonkyeong Choi , Mingyu Jang , Jaekyung Kim , Jianfei Cai , Wen-Huang Cheng , Sanghoon Lee

While recent learning based methods have been observed to be superior for several vision-related applications, their potential in generating artistic effects has not been explored much. One such interesting application is Shadow Art - a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Kaustubh Sadekar , Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

We present DC-Gaussian, a new method for generating novel views from in-vehicle dash cam videos. While neural rendering techniques have made significant strides in driving scenarios, existing methods are primarily designed for videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Linhan Wang , Kai Cheng , Shuo Lei , Shengkun Wang , Wei Yin , Chenyang Lei , Xiaoxiao Long , Chang-Tien Lu

Recent efforts in using 3D Gaussians for scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis can achieve impressive results on curated benchmarks; however, images captured in real life are often blurry. In this work, we analyze the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Cheng Peng , Yutao Tang , Yifan Zhou , Nengyu Wang , Xijun Liu , Deming Li , Rama Chellappa

Synthesizing novel views of large-scale scenes from unconstrained in-the-wild images is an important but challenging task in computer vision. Existing methods, which optimize per-image appearance and transient occlusion through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yiqing Li , Xuan Wang , Jiawei Wu , Yikun Ma , Zhi Jin

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

By supervising camera rays between a scene and multi-view image planes, NeRF reconstructs a neural scene representation for the task of novel view synthesis. On the other hand, shadow rays between the light source and the scene have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jingwang Ling , Zhibo Wang , Feng Xu

We propose two novel ideas (adoption of deferred rendering and mesh-based representation) to improve the quality of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) based inverse rendering. We first report a problem incurred by hidden Gaussians, where…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Euntae Choi , Sungjoo Yoo