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3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing high-fidelity novel views. Nonetheless, its effectiveness critically depends on the quality of the initialized point cloud. Specifically, achieving uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yikang Zhang , Rui Fan

Standard Gaussian splatting methods rely on heuristic densification and pruning to adaptively allocate primitives during training, and the resulting Gaussian count strongly influences both reconstruction quality and runtime. This makes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pratik Singh Bisht , Andreas Kolb

Recent significant advances in 3D scene representation have been driven by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which has enabled real-time rendering with photorealistic quality. 3DGS often requires a large number of primitives to achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoran Wang , Guoxi Huang , Fan Zhang , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) leverages densely distributed Gaussian primitives for high-quality scene representation and reconstruction. While existing 3DGS methods perform well in scenes with minor view variation, large view changes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chenhao Zhang , Yuanping Cao , Lei Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently advanced radiance field reconstruction by offering superior capabilities for novel view synthesis and real-time rendering speed. However, its strategy of blending optimization and adaptive density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Rong Liu , Rui Xu , Yue Hu , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng

3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) has emerged as a powerful representation for high-quality scene reconstruction, offering compelling rendering quality. However, the training process of GS often suffers from slow convergence due to inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Binxiao Huang , Zhengwu Liu , Ngai Wong

The introduction of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced novel view synthesis by utilizing Gaussians to represent scenes. Encoding Gaussian point features with anchor embeddings has significantly enhanced the performance of newer 3DGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyan Su , Baozhu Zhao , Xiaohan Zhang , Qi Liu

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is an innovative rendering technique that surpasses the neural radiance field (NeRF) in both rendering speed and visual quality by leveraging an explicit 3D scene representation. Existing 3DGS approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Yating Huang , Qijun Yang , Hujun Yin

Recently, Gaussian Splatting, a method that represents a 3D scene as a collection of Gaussian distributions, has gained significant attention in addressing the task of novel view synthesis. In this paper, we highlight a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Haoxuan Qu , Zhuoling Li , Hossein Rahmani , Yujun Cai , Jun Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) achieves real-time photorealistic novel view synthesis, yet struggles with complex scenes due to over-reconstruction artifacts, manifesting as local blurring and needle-shape distortions. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuxin Cheng , Binxiao Huang , Wenyong Zhou , Taiqiang Wu , Zhengwu Liu , Graziano Chesi , Ngai Wong

3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructs scenes by starting from a sparse Structure-from-Motion initialization and refining under-reconstructed regions. This process is slow, as it requires multiple densification steps where Gaussians are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Björn Ommer

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

The 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) gained its popularity recently by combining the advantages of both primitive-based and volumetric 3D representations, resulting in improved quality and efficiency for 3D scene rendering. However, 3DGS is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhihao Liang , Qi Zhang , Wenbo Hu , Ying Feng , Lei Zhu , Kui Jia

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become the method of choice for photo-realistic 3D reconstruction of scenes, due to being able to efficiently and accurately recover the scene appearance and geometry from images. 3DGS represents the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ivan Desiatov , Torsten Sattler

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting have enhanced efficient and high-quality novel view synthesis. However, representing scenes requires a large number of Gaussian points, leading to high storage demands and limiting practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Liheng Zhang , Weihao Yu , Zubo Lu , Haozhi Gu , Jin Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables photorealistic rendering but suffers from artefacts due to sparse Structure-from-Motion (SfM) initialisation. To address this limitation, we propose GP-GS, a Gaussian Process (GP) based densification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhihao Guo , Jingxuan Su , Chenghao Qian , Shenglin Wang , Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Wei Zhou , Hadi Amirpour , Yunlong Zhao , Liangxiu Han , Peng Wang

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

In the domain of 3D scene representation, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a pivotal technology. However, its application to large-scale, high-resolution scenes (exceeding 4k$\times$4k pixels) is hindered by the excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Wenkai Liu , Tao Guan , Bin Zhu , Lili Ju , Zikai Song , Dan Li , Yuesong Wang , Wei Yang

Adaptive density control in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) repeatedly grows the Gaussian population through fixed-cardinality random splitting to discover useful scene structure. However, in vanilla 3DGS, its binary split operator requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yongjae Lee , Jingxing Li , Abhay Kumar Yadav , Rama Chellappa , Deliang Fan