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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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

Synthesizing radio-frequency (RF) data given the transmitter and receiver positions, e.g., received signal strength indicator (RSSI), is critical for wireless networking and sensing applications, such as indoor localization. However, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kang Yang , Gaofeng Dong , Sijie Ji , Wan Du , Mani Srivastava

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) have revolutionized novel view synthesis, facilitating real-time, high-quality image rendering. However, in scenarios involving reflective surfaces, particularly mirrors, 3D-GS often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zihan Wang , Shuzhe Wang , Matias Turkulainen , Junyuan Fang , Juho Kannala

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

We propose VDN-NeRF, a method to train neural radiance fields (NeRFs) for better geometry under non-Lambertian surface and dynamic lighting conditions that cause significant variation in the radiance of a point when viewed from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Bingfan Zhu , Yanchao Yang , Xulong Wang , Youyi Zheng , Leonidas Guibas

Computational neuromorphic imaging (CNI) with event cameras offers advantages such as minimal motion blur and enhanced dynamic range, compared to conventional frame-based methods. Existing event-based radiance field rendering methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jingqian Wu , Shuo Zhu , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

High-fidelity three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is essential for robotics and simulation. While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieve impressive rendering quality, their reliance on time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiong Jinlin , Li Can , Shen Jiawei , Qi Zhigang , Sun Lei , Zhao Dongyang

Despite Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showing compelling results in photorealistic novel views synthesis of real-world scenes, most existing approaches require accurate prior camera poses. Although approaches for jointly recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Shin-Fang Chng , Sameera Ramasinghe , Jamie Sherrah , Simon Lucey

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

Novel View Synthesis (NVS) for street scenes play a critical role in the autonomous driving simulation. The current mainstream technique to achieve it is neural rendering, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhongrui Yu , Haoran Wang , Jinze Yang , Hanzhang Wang , Zeke Xie , Yunfeng Cai , Jiale Cao , Zhong Ji , Mingming Sun

Most current NeRF variants for satellites are designed for one specific scene and fall short of generalization to new geometry. Additionally, the RGB images require pan-sharpening as an independent preprocessing step. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tongtong Zhang , Yuanxiang Li

Digital twins are fundamental to the development of autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence. However, achieving high-granularity surface reconstruction and high-fidelity rendering remains a challenge. Gaussian splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jianheng Liu , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Chunran Zheng , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang

While 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) offers explicit and efficient scene representations for cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction, conventional photometric optimization inherently suffers from spectral bias under ultra sparse-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jian Lin , Jiancheng Fang , Shaoyu Wang , Changan Lai , Yikun Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated superior novel view synthesis performance but are slow at rendering. To speed up the volume rendering process, many acceleration methods have been proposed at the cost of large memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sicheng Li , Hao Li , Yue Wang , Yiyi Liao , Lu Yu

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are able to synthesize realistic novel views from multi-view images captured from distinct positions and perspectives. In NeRF's rendering pipeline, neural networks are used to represent a scene independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kang Han , Wei Xiang , Lu Yu

Navigating outdoor environments with visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems poses significant challenges due to dynamic scenes, lighting variations, and seasonal changes, requiring robust solutions. While traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sida Peng , Xingang Pan , Nanxuan Zhao , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Learning a 3D representation of a scene has been a challenging problem for decades in computer vision. Recent advances in implicit neural representation from images using neural radiance fields(NeRF) have shown promising results. Some of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Arnab Dey , Andrew I. Comport

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) is a new rendering approach that outperforms the neural radiance field (NeRF) in terms of both speed and image quality. 3D-GS represents 3D scenes by utilizing millions of 3D Gaussians and projects these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Joongho Jo , Hyeongwon Kim , Jongsun Park