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A good clustering algorithm can discover natural groupings in data. These groupings, if used wisely, provide a form of weak supervision for learning representations. In this work, we present Clustering-based Contrastive Learning (CCL), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Vivek Sharma , Makarand Tapaswi , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

3D Gaussian Splatting shows great potential in reconstructing photo-realistic 3D scenes. However, these methods typically bake illumination into their representations, limiting their use for physically-based rendering and scene editing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zirui Wu , Jianteng Chen , Laijian Li , Shaoteng Wu , Zhikai Zhu , Kang Xu , Martin R. Oswald , Jie Song

Weighted Gaussian Curvature is an important measurement for images. However, its conventional computation scheme has low performance, low accuracy and requires that the input image must be second order differentiable. To tackle these three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yuanhao Gong , Wenming Tang , Lebin Zhou , Lantao Yu , Guoping Qiu

This paper proposes an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore the per-point ambiguities and less discriminated features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yap-Peng Tan

Recent advancements in dynamic 3D scene reconstruction have shown promising results, enabling high-fidelity 3D novel view synthesis with improved temporal consistency. Among these, 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) has emerged as an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Seungjun Oh , Younggeun Lee , Hyejin Jeon , Eunbyung Park

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become one of the most influential works in the past year. Due to its efficient and high-quality novel view synthesis capabilities, it has been widely adopted in many research fields and applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Glenn Grubert , Florian Barthel , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its real-time, photo-realistic rendering in novel-view synthesis and 3D modeling. However, existing methods struggle with accurately modeling in-the-wild scenes affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Chuanyu Fu , Guanying Chen , Yuqi Zhang , Kunbin Yao , Yuan Xiong , Chuan Huang , Shuguang Cui , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Xiaochun Cao

Clustering mixtures of Gaussian distributions is a fundamental and challenging problem that is ubiquitous in various high-dimensional data processing tasks. While state-of-the-art work on learning Gaussian mixture models has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Kushnir , Shirin Jalali , Iraj Saniee

Reconstructing a 3D scene from images is challenging due to the different ways light interacts with surfaces depending on the viewer's position and the surface's material. In classical computer graphics, materials can be classified as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Mateusz Nowak , Wojciech Jarosz , Peter Chin

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) excels at producing highly detailed 3D reconstructions, but these scenes often require specialised renderers for effective visualisation. In contrast, point clouds are a widely used 3D representation and are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lewis A G Stuart , Michael P Pound

In computer vision, image segmentation is always selected as a major research topic by researchers. Due to its vital rule in image processing, there always arises the need of a better image segmentation method. Clustering is an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Anil Kumar Gupta

Graph clustering, a classical task in graph learning, involves partitioning the nodes of a graph into distinct clusters. This task has applications in various real-world scenarios, such as anomaly detection, social network analysis, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaoyang Ji , Yuchen Zhou , Haofu Yang , Shiyue Xu , Jiahao Li

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful explicit representation enabling real-time, high-fidelity 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, its practical use is hindered by the massive memory and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Seokhyun Youn , Soohyun Lee , Geonho Kim , Weeyoung Kwon , Sung-Ho Bae , Jihyong Oh

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a very promising scene representation, achieving state-of-the-art quality in novel view synthesis significantly faster than competing alternatives. However, its use of spherical harmonics to represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 T. Berriel Martins , Javier Civera

Radiance Fields have become a powerful tool for modeling 3D scenes from multiple images. However, they remain difficult to segment into semantically meaningful regions. Some methods work well using 2D semantic masks, but they generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Corentin Dumery , Aoxiang Fan , Ren Li , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

The accurate reconstruction of dynamic street scenes is critical for applications in autonomous driving, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Traditional methods relying on dense point clouds and triangular meshes struggle with moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peizhen Zheng , Dongjing Jiang , Qingchong Jiao , Redouane EL Bouchtaoui , Flynnwell Jianfei Zhang

Recent works on 3D scene understanding leverage 2D masks from visual foundation models (VFMs) to supervise radiance fields, enabling instance-level 3D segmentation. However, the supervision signals from foundation models are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tsuheng Hsu , Guiyu Liu , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä

Towards holistic understanding of 3D scenes, a general 3D segmentation method is needed that can segment diverse objects without restrictions on object quantity or categories, while also reflecting the inherent hierarchical structure. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haiyang Ying , Yixuan Yin , Jinzhi Zhang , Fan Wang , Tao Yu , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

This paper presents a novel method for instance segmentation of 3D point clouds. The proposed method is called Gaussian Instance Center Network (GICN), which can approximate the distributions of instance centers scattered in the whole scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shih-Hung Liu , Shang-Yi Yu , Shao-Chi Wu , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu