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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) proposes an efficient solution for novel view synthesis. Its framework provides fast and high-fidelity rendering. Although less complex than other solutions such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Stéphane Pateux , Matthieu Gendrin , Luce Morin , Théo Ladune , Xiaoran Jiang

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

Efficient scene representations are essential for many real-world applications, especially those involving spatial measurement. Although current NeRF-based methods have achieved impressive results in reconstructing building-scale scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jianlin Guo , Haihong Xiao , Wenxiong Kang

Semantic-aware 3D scene reconstruction is essential for autonomous robots to perform complex interactions. Semantic SLAM, an online approach, integrates pose tracking, geometric reconstruction, and semantic mapping into a unified framework,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zuxing Lu , Xin Yuan , Shaowen Yang , Jingyu Liu , Changyin Sun

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

In this paper, we explore an open research problem concerning the reconstruction of 3D scenes from images. Recent methods have adopt 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to produce 3D scenes due to its efficient training process. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Zijian Wang , Hao Wang

This paper focuses on scene reconstruction under nighttime conditions in autonomous driving simulation. Recent methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have achieved photorealistic modeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tae-Kyeong Kim , Xingxin Chen , Guile Wu , Chengjie Huang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu

Neural rendering techniques have made substantial progress in generating photo-realistic 3D scenes. The latest 3D Gaussian Splatting technique has achieved high quality novel view synthesis as well as fast rendering speed. However, 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xinran Yang , Donghao Ji , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Junyuan Xie

The recently developed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown encouraging and impressive results for visual SLAM. However, most representative methods require RGBD sensors and are only available for indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zhe Xin , Chenyang Wu , Penghui Huang , Yanyong Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

Neural rendering methods have significantly advanced photo-realistic 3D scene rendering in various academic and industrial applications. The recent 3D Gaussian Splatting method has achieved the state-of-the-art rendering quality and speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Tao Lu , Mulin Yu , Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Reconstructing deformable endoscopic tissues is crucial for achieving robot-assisted surgery. However, 3D Gaussian Splatting-based approaches encounter challenges in achieving consistent tissue surface reconstruction, while existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yangsen Chen , Hao Wang

In underwater images, most useful features are occluded by water. The extent of the occlusion depends on imaging geometry and can vary even across a sequence of burst images. As a result, 3D reconstruction methods robust on in-air scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nir Mualem , Roy Amoyal , Oren Freifeld , Derya Akkaynak

Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a leading method for novel view synthesis, offering superior training efficiency and real-time inference compared to NeRF approaches, while still delivering high-quality reconstructions. Beyond view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lorenzo Rutayisire , Nicola Capodieci , Fabio Pellacini

Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse images remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of recovering accurate geometry and texture without optimization. Recent approaches leverage generalizable models to generate 3D scenes using 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bing He , Jingnan Gao , Yunuo Chen , Ning Cao , Gang Chen , Zhengxue Cheng , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of common indoor scenes is crucial for VR and AR applications. 3D Gaussian splatting, a novel differentiable rendering technique, has achieved state-of-the-art novel view synthesis results with high rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Iaroslav Melekhov , Otto Seiskari , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Underwater scene reconstruction is a critical tech-nology for underwater operations, enabling the generation of 3D models from images captured by underwater platforms. However, the quality of underwater images is often degraded due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Junhao Shi , Jisheng Xu , Jianping He , Zhiliang Lin

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

The semantic synthesis of unseen scenes from multiple viewpoints is crucial for research in 3D scene understanding. Current methods are capable of rendering novel-view images and semantic maps by reconstructing generalizable Neural Radiance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Wanlin Liang , Wenxiong Kang