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Generating geometric 3D reconstructions from Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) is of great interest. However, accurate and complete reconstructions based on the density values are challenging. The network output depends on input data, NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Miriam Jäger , Boris Jutzi

Novel-view synthesis with sparse input views is important for real-world applications like AR/VR and autonomous driving. Recent methods have integrated depth information into NeRFs for sparse input synthesis, leveraging depth prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shuai Guo , Qiuwen Wang , Yijie Gao , Rong Xie , Li Song

Geometric reconstruction of opaque surfaces from images is a longstanding challenge in computer vision, with renewed interest from volumetric view synthesis algorithms using radiance fields. We leverage the geometry field proposed in recent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Kaiwen Jiang , Venkataram Sivaram , Cheng Peng , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views. Our algorithm represents a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Ben Mildenhall , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Matthew Tancik , Jonathan T. Barron , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Ren Ng

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for multi-view reconstruction, complementing classical photogrammetric pipelines based on Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS). However, their reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiangsan Zhao , Jakob Geipel , Kryzysztof Kusnierek

We represent the ResNeRF, a novel geometry-guided two-stage framework for indoor scene novel view synthesis. Be aware of that a good geometry would greatly boost the performance of novel view synthesis, and to avoid the geometry ambiguity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yuting Xiao , Yiqun Zhao , Yanyu Xu , Shenghua Gao

With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance, allowing to conduct view synthesis using differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Diego Martin Arroyo , Michael Niemeyer , Abhijit Kundu , Federico Tombari

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive results in novel view synthesis, particularly in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), thanks to its ability to represent scenes continuously. However, when just a few input view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hanxin Zhu , Tianyu He , Zhibo Chen

Neural radiance fields achieve unprecedented quality for novel view synthesis, but their volumetric formulation remains expensive, requiring a huge number of samples to render high-resolution images. Volumetric encodings are essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Merlin Nimier-David , Nicholas Sharp , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Sanja Fidler , Thomas Müller , Zan Gojcic

The latest regularized Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approaches produce poor geometry and view extrapolation for large scale sparse view scenes, such as ETH3D. Density-based approaches tend to be under-constrained, while surface-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yuqun Wu , Jae Yong Lee , Chuhang Zou , Shenlong Wang , Derek Hoiem

High-quality view synthesis relies on volume rendering, splatting, or surface rendering. While surface rendering is typically the fastest, it struggles to accurately model fuzzy geometry like hair. In turn, alpha-blending techniques excel…

The reconstruction of indoor scenes from multi-view RGB images is challenging due to the coexistence of flat and texture-less regions alongside delicate and fine-grained regions. Recent methods leverage neural radiance fields aided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Sheng Ye , Yubin Hu , Matthieu Lin , Yu-Hui Wen , Wang Zhao , Yong-Jin Liu , Wenping Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis results, while allowing the rendering of high-resolution images in real-time. However, leveraging 3D Gaussians for surface reconstruction poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zehao Yu , Torsten Sattler , Andreas Geiger

With dense inputs, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is able to render photo-realistic novel views under static conditions. Although the synthesis quality is excellent, existing NeRF-based methods fail to obtain moderate three-dimensional (3D)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Shu Chen , Junyao Li , Yang Zhang , Beiji Zou

We present Neural Microfacet Fields, a method for recovering materials, geometry, and environment illumination from images of a scene. Our method uses a microfacet reflectance model within a volumetric setting by treating each sample along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Alexander Mai , Dor Verbin , Falko Kuester , Sara Fridovich-Keil

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieve photo-realistic view synthesis with densely captured input images. However, the geometry of NeRF is extremely under-constrained given sparse views, resulting in significant degradation of novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zheng Chen , Chen Wang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Haithem Turki , Vasu Agrawal , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder , Deva Ramanan , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) methods have demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis performance. The core approach is to render individual rays by querying a neural network at points sampled along the ray to obtain the density and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Relja Arandjelović , Andrew Zisserman

Surface reconstruction with preservation of geometric features is a challenging computer vision task. Despite significant progress in implicit shape reconstruction, state-of-the-art mesh extraction methods often produce aliased,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Natalia Soboleva , Olga Gorbunova , Maria Ivanova , Evgeny Burnaev , Matthias Nießner , Denis Zorin , Alexey Artemov