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View synthesis methods using implicit continuous shape representations learned from a set of images, such as the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) method, have gained increasing attention due to their high quality imagery and scalability to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Guo-Wei Yang , Wen-Yang Zhou , Hao-Yang Peng , Dun Liang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Although many recent works have investigated generalizable NeRF-based novel view synthesis for unseen scenes, they seldom consider the synthetic-to-real generalization, which is desired in many practical applications. In this work, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Hao Yang , Lanqing Hong , Aoxue Li , Tianyang Hu , Zhenguo Li , Gim Hee Lee , Liwei Wang

City-scale 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery presents the challenge of extreme viewpoint extrapolation, where our goal is to synthesize ground-level novel views from sparse orbital images with minimal parallax. This requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fei Yu , Yu Liu , Luyang Tang , Mingchao Sun , Zengye Ge , Rui Bu , Yuchao Jin , Haisen Zhao , He Sun , Yangyan Li , Mu Xu , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger

Novel view synthesis aims to generate new view images of a given view image collection. Recent attempts address this problem relying on 3D geometry priors (e.g., shapes, sizes, and positions) learned from multi-view images. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zixiong Huang , Qi Chen , Libo Sun , Yifan Yang , Naizhou Wang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Primitive-based splatting methods like 3D Gaussian Splatting have revolutionized novel view synthesis with real-time rendering. However, their point-based representations remain incompatible with mesh-based pipelines that power AR/VR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jan Held , Sanghyun Son , Renaud Vandeghen , Daniel Rebain , Matheus Gadelha , Yi Zhou , Anthony Cioppa , Ming C. Lin , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Andrea Tagliasacchi

While neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown promise in novel view synthesis, their implicit representation limits explicit control over object manipulation. Existing research has proposed the integration of explicit geometric proxies to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zherui Qiu , Chenqu Ren , Kaiwen Song , Xiaoyi Zeng , Leyuan Yang , Juyong Zhang

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a popular method in representing 3D scenes by optimising a continuous volumetric scene function. Its large success which lies in applying volumetric rendering (VR) is also its Achilles' heel in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhe Jun Tang , Tat-Jen Cham , Haiyu Zhao

In this work, we focus on synthesizing high-fidelity novel view images for arbitrary human performers, given a set of sparse multi-view images. It is a challenging task due to the large variation among articulated body poses and heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jianchuan Chen , Wentao Yi , Liqian Ma , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu

In recent years, implicit online dense mapping methods have achieved high-quality reconstruction results, showcasing great potential in robotics, AR/VR, and digital twins applications. However, existing methods struggle with slow texture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenxing Jiang , Yiming Luo , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Reconstructing the high-fidelity surface from multi-view images, especially sparse images, is a critical and practical task that has attracted widespread attention in recent years. However, existing methods are impeded by the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Rui Peng , Shihe Shen , Kaiqiang Xiong , Huachen Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Xiaodong Gu , Ronggang Wang

This paper addresses the limitations of neural rendering-based multi-view surface reconstruction methods, which require an additional mesh extraction step that is inconvenient and would produce poor-quality surfaces with mesh aliasing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qitong Zhang , Jieqing Feng

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Photo-realistic rendering and novel view synthesis play a crucial role in human-computer interaction tasks, from gaming to path planning. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) model scenes as continuous volumetric functions and achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Iryna Repinetska , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Capturing and rendering novel views of complex real-world scenes is a long-standing problem in computer graphics and vision, with applications in augmented and virtual reality, immersive experiences and 3D photography. The advent of deep…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) enable novel view synthesis with unprecedented visual quality. However, to render photorealistic images, NeRFs require hundreds of deep multilayer perceptron (MLP) evaluations - for each pixel. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ziyu Wan , Christian Richardt , Aljaž Božič , Chao Li , Vijay Rengarajan , Seonghyeon Nam , Xiaoyu Xiang , Tuotuo Li , Bo Zhu , Rakesh Ranjan , Jing Liao

We introduce a novel geometry-guided online video view synthesis method with enhanced view and temporal consistency. Traditional approaches achieve high-quality synthesis from dense multi-view camera setups but require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hyunho Ha , Lei Xiao , Christian Richardt , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Changil Kim , Min H. Kim , Douglas Lanman , Numair Khan

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

Novel view synthesis is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision that aims to reconstruct photorealistic images from novel viewpoints given a set of posed images. However, reconstruction quality degrades sharply under sparse-view conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wenjun Lu , Haodong Chen , Anqi Yi , Guoxi Huang , Yuk Ying Chung , Kun Hu , Zhiyong Wang