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The neural radiance field (NeRF) has made significant strides in representing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views. Despite its advancements, the high computational costs of NeRF have posed challenges for its deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xiangyu Sun , Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Jong Hwan Ko , Usman Ali , Eunbyung Park

The field of 3D reconstruction from images has rapidly evolved in the past few years, first with the introduction of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and more recently with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). The latter provides a significant edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Avinash Paliwal , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Dmytro Kotovenko , Rakesh Ranjan , Vikas Chandra , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results in real-time 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, these methods struggle in large-scale, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Tuan Pham , Qiao Wang , Ben Southall , Kshitij Minhas , Bogdan Matei , Stephan Mandt , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

We introduce NeRF-GS, a novel framework that jointly optimizes Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). This framework leverages the inherent continuous spatial representation of NeRF to mitigate several limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shuangkang Fang , I-Chao Shen , Takeo Igarashi , Yufeng Wang , ZeSheng Wang , Yi Yang , Wenrui Ding , Shuchang Zhou

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has proven to be highly effective in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality and real-time rendering. However, its potential for reconstructing detailed 3D shapes has not been fully explored. Existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Baowen Zhang , Chuan Fang , Rakesh Shrestha , Yixun Liang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

We leverage repetitive elements in 3D scenes to improve novel view synthesis. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved novel view synthesis but renderings of unseen and occluded parts remain…

We introduce a method for using event camera data in novel view synthesis via Gaussian Splatting. Event cameras offer exceptional temporal resolution and a high dynamic range. Leveraging these capabilities allows us to effectively address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Toshiya Yura , Ashkan Mirzaei , Igor Gilitschenski

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown its detailed expressive ability and highly efficient rendering speed in the novel view synthesis (NVS) task. The application to inverse rendering still faces several challenges, as the discrete nature…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

In recent years, neural rendering methods such as NeRFs and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made significant progress in scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, they heavily rely on preprocessed camera poses and 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chenhao Zhang , Yezhi Shen , Fengqing Zhu

We present SplatFace, a novel Gaussian splatting framework designed for 3D human face reconstruction without reliance on accurate pre-determined geometry. Our method is designed to simultaneously deliver both high-quality novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiahao Luo , Jing Liu , James Davis

3D scene representations have gained immense popularity in recent years. Methods that use Neural Radiance fields are versatile for traditional tasks such as novel view synthesis. In recent times, some work has emerged that aims to extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shijie Zhou , Haoran Chang , Sicheng Jiang , Zhiwen Fan , Zehao Zhu , Dejia Xu , Pradyumna Chari , Suya You , Zhangyang Wang , Achuta Kadambi

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao

Recent developments in 3D Gaussian Splatting have made significant advances in surface reconstruction. However, scaling these methods to large-scale scenes remains challenging due to high computational demands and the complex dynamic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shihan Chen , Zhaojin Li , Zeyu Chen , Qingsong Yan , Gaoyang Shen , Ran Duan

Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic surgical scenes from endoscopic video is essential for robotic-assisted surgery. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise in achieving high-quality reconstructions with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jialei Chen , Xin Zhang , Mobarakol Islam , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Daniel S. Elson , Baoru Huang

The reconstruction of 3D objects from calibrated photographs represents a fundamental yet intricate challenge in the domains of computer graphics and vision. Although neural reconstruction approaches based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Chen Du , Truong Nguyen

Traditional volumetric fusion algorithms preserve the spatial structure of 3D scenes, which is beneficial for many tasks in computer vision and robotics. However, they often lack realism in terms of visualization. Emerging 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jiaxin Wei , Stefan Leutenegger

We present a Gaussian Splatting method for surface reconstruction using sparse input views. Previous methods relying on dense views struggle with extremely sparse Structure-from-Motion points for initialization. While learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jiang Wu , Rui Li , Yu Zhu , Rong Guo , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique has significantly advanced the construction of radiance fields from multi-view images, enabling real-time rendering. While point-based rasterization effectively reduces computational demands for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jiaze Li , Zhengyu Wen , Luo Zhang , Jiangbei Hu , Fei Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end transcoding pipeline, to create 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) models from existing 3D plenoptic point cloud or mesh models, when the original multi-view images of the captured 3D object or scene are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Maja Krivokuća , Riad Bendouro , Neus Sabater