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Many works have succeeded in reconstructing Gaussian human avatars from multi-view videos. However, they either struggle to capture pose-dependent appearance details with a single MLP, or rely on a computationally intensive neural network…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

In the realm of image composition, generating realistic shadow for the inserted foreground remains a formidable challenge. Previous works have developed image-to-image translation models which are trained on paired training data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Qingyang Liu , Junqi You , Jianting Wang , Xinhao Tao , Bo Zhang , Li Niu

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Decoupling lighting from geometry using unconstrained photo collections is notoriously challenging. Solving it would benefit many users as creating complex 3D assets takes days of manual labor. Many previous works have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Joanna Kaleta , Kacper Kania , Tomasz Trzcinski , Marek Kowalski

This paper presents a unified framework that allows high-quality dynamic Gaussian Splatting from both defocused and motion-blurred monocular videos. Due to the significant difference between the formation processes of defocus blur and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xuankai Zhang , Junjin Xiao , Qing Zhang

Shadows encode rich information about scene geometry and illumination, yet existing methods either predict a unified shadow mask or overlook attached shadows entirely. We address this gap by proposing a framework for jointly detecting cast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

Image composition targets at inserting a foreground object into a background image. Most previous image composition methods focus on adjusting the foreground to make it compatible with background while ignoring the shadow effect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Yan Hong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

3DGS employs a large number of Gaussian primitives to fit scenes, resulting in substantial storage and computational overhead. Existing pruning methods rely on manually designed criteria or introduce additional learnable parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xiaobin Deng , Qiuli Yu , Changyu Diao , Min Li , Duanqing Xu

High-quality scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis based on Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) typically require steady, high-quality photographs, often impractical to capture with handheld cameras. We present a method that adapts to camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Otto Seiskari , Jerry Ylilammi , Valtteri Kaatrasalo , Pekka Rantalankila , Matias Turkulainen , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu , Arno Solin

We introduce a novel approach to creating ultra-realistic head avatars and rendering them in real-time (>30fps at $2048 \times 1334$ resolution). First, we propose a hybrid explicit representation that combines the advantages of two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongrui Cai , Yuting Xiao , Xuan Wang , Jiafei Li , Yudong Guo , Yanbo Fan , Shenghua Gao , Juyong Zhang

In 3D reconstruction, the problem of inverse rendering, namely recovering the illumination of the scene and the material properties, is fundamental. Existing Gaussian Splatting-based methods primarily target static scenes and often assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Joanna Kaleta , Piotr Wójcik , Kacper Marzol , Tomasz Trzciński , Kacper Kania , Marek Kowalski

Removing objects from images is a challenging problem that is important for many applications, including mixed reality. For believable results, the shadows that the object casts should also be removed. Current inpainting-based methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Edward Zhang , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Janne Kontkanen , Brian Curless

Differentiable rendering with 3D Gaussian primitives has emerged as a powerful method for reconstructing high-fidelity 3D scenes from multi-view images. While it offers improvements over NeRF-based methods, this representation still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kaifeng Sheng , Zheng Zhou , Yingliang Peng , Qianwei Wang

We present a new approach, termed GPS-Gaussian, for synthesizing novel views of a character in a real-time manner. The proposed method enables 2K-resolution rendering under a sparse-view camera setting. Unlike the original Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Shunyuan Zheng , Boyao Zhou , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

Illumination patterns of computational ghost imaging (CGI) systems suffer from reduced contrast when passing through a scattering medium, which causes the effective information in the reconstruction result to be drowned out by noise. A…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-18 Li-Xing Lin , Jie Cao , Qun Hao

Current Gaussian Splatting approaches are effective for reconstructing entire scenes but lack the option to target specific objects, making them computationally expensive and unsuitable for object-specific applications. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Marcel Rogge , Didier Stricker

In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sepideh Hosseinzadeh , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

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

Gaussian Splatting has changed the game for real-time photo-realistic rendering. One of the most popular applications of Gaussian Splatting is to create animatable avatars, known as Gaussian Avatars. Recent works have pushed the boundaries…