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3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from computationally intensive processes like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Yang , Jungseok Hong , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity for efficient scene rendering by representing scenes as explicit sets of anisotropic 3D Gaussians. However, most existing work focuses primarily on modeling external surfaces. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Shuxin Liang , Yihan Xiao , Wenlu Tang

Reconstructing dynamic driving scenes is essential for developing autonomous systems through sensor-realistic simulation. Although recent methods achieve high-fidelity reconstructions, they either rely on costly human annotations for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Carl Lindström , Mahan Rafidashti , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Martin R. Oswald , Lennart Svensson

3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved impressive performance in novel view synthesis with real-time rendering capabilities. However, reconstructing high-quality surfaces with fine details using 3D Gaussians remains a challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiepeng Wang , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Junhui Hou , Xin Li , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

In this study, we present an end-to-end pipeline capable of converting drone-captured video streams into high-fidelity 3D reconstructions with minimal latency. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively used in aerial real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Christos Maikos , Georgios Angelidis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) in unseen environments is a fundamental task for Embodied AI. Agents in existing works learn ObjectNav policies based on 2D maps, scene graphs, or image sequences. Considering this task happens in 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jiazhao Zhang , Liu Dai , Fanpeng Meng , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Kai Xu , He Wang

We propose GS-IR, a novel inverse rendering approach based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) that leverages forward mapping volume rendering to achieve photorealistic novel view synthesis and relighting results. Unlike previous works that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhihao Liang , Qi Zhang , Ying Feng , Ying Shan , Kui Jia

Radiance field methods, such as Neural Radiance Field or 3D Gaussian Splatting, have emerged as seminal 3D representations for synthesizing realistic novel views. For practical applications, there is ongoing research on flexible scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ji Hyun Seo , Byounhyun Yoo , Gerard Jounghyun Kim

Road surface is the sole contact medium for wheels or robot feet. Reconstructing road surface is crucial for unmanned vehicles and mobile robots. Recent studies on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting (GS) have achieved…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wenhua Wu , Tong Zhao , Chensheng Peng , Lei Yang , Yintao Wei , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized real-time photorealistic view synthesis, its fundamental reliance on symmetric Gaussian distributions introduces visual artifacts that hinder accurate spatial data exploration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Gaochao Song , Ziran Yin , Hao Wang

Robotics applications often rely on scene reconstructions to enable downstream tasks. In this work, we tackle the challenge of actively building an accurate map of an unknown scene using an RGB-D camera on a mobile platform. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Liren Jin , Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Recent advancements in photo-realistic novel view synthesis have been significantly driven by Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Nevertheless, the explicit nature of 3DGS data entails considerable storage requirements, highlighting a pressing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

3D scene reconstruction and rendering are core tasks in computer vision, with applications spanning industrial monitoring, robotics, and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and its variants have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Chi-Shiang Gau , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Athanasios Bacharis , Saketh Madhuvarasu , Tara Javidi

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an alternative representation that leverages a 3D Gaussian-based representation and introduces an approximated volumetric rendering, achieving very fast rendering speed and promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

Following the advent of NeRFs, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has paved the way to real-time neural rendering overcoming the computational burden of volumetric methods. Following the pioneering work of 3D-GS, several methods have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evangelos Ververas , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jifei Song , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Rendering and reconstruction are long-standing topics in computer vision and graphics. Achieving both high rendering quality and accurate geometry is a challenge. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Meng Wei , Qianyi Wu , Jianmin Zheng , Hamid Rezatofighi , Jianfei Cai

Reconstructing urban scenes is challenging due to their complex geometries and the presence of potentially dynamic objects. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based methods have shown strong performance, but existing approaches often incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ziwen Li , Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Yunlong Che , Yandong Guo , Tongliang Liu , Fakhri Karray , Mingming Gong

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Through rapid, differentiable rasterization of 3D Gaussians, many 3DGS SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xulang Liu , Ning Tan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated its advantages in achieving fast and high-quality rendering. As point clouds serve as a widely-used and easily accessible form of 3D representation, bridging the gap between point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weiqi Zhang , Junsheng Zhou , Haotian Geng , Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enabled photorealistic mapping, its integration into SLAM has largely followed traditional camera-centric pipelines. As a result, they inherit well-known weaknesses such as high computational load, failure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jaeseok Park , Chanoh Park , Minsu Kim , Minkyoung Kim , Soohwan Kim