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In the rapidly evolving field of 3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) represent significant advancements. Although 2DGS compresses 3D Gaussian primitives into 2D Gaussian surfels to effectively…

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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

Radiance fields have demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing novel views from sparse input views, yet prevailing methods suffer from high training costs and slow inference speed. This paper introduces DNGaussian, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Xin Ning , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

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

Sparse-view scene reconstruction often faces significant challenges due to the constraints imposed by limited observational data. These limitations result in incomplete information, leading to suboptimal reconstructions using existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiangyu Sun , Runnan Chen , Mingming Gong , Dong Xu , Tongliang 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 (GS) has received a lot of attention in surface reconstruction. However, while 3D objects can be of complex and diverse shapes in the real world, existing GS-based methods only limitedly use a single type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Haoxuan Qu , Yujun Cai , Hossein Rahmani , Ajay Kumar , Junsong Yuan , Jun Liu

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting has been widely studied because of its realistic and efficient novel-view synthesis, it is still challenging to extract a high-quality surface from the point-based representation. Previous works improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hanlin Chen , Fangyin Wei , Chen Li , Tianxin Huang , Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Novel view synthesis (NVS) in low-light scenes remains a significant challenge due to degraded inputs characterized by severe noise, low dynamic range (LDR) and unreliable initialization. While recent NeRF-based approaches have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Sun , Fenggen Yu , Huiyao Xu , Tao Zhang , Changqing Zou

One of the key advantages of 3D rendering is its ability to simulate intricate scenes accurately. One of the most widely used methods for this purpose is Gaussian Splatting, a novel approach that is known for its rapid training and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Artur Kasymov , Bartosz Czekaj , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a mainstream solution for novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. By explicitly encoding a 3D scene using a collection of Gaussian kernels, 3DGS achieves high-quality rendering with superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lei Lan , Tianjia Shao , Zixuan Lu , Yu Zhang , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yin Yang

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

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has reshaped the field of photorealistic 3D reconstruction, achieving impressive rendering quality and speed. However, when applied to large-scale street scenes, existing methods suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Guangting Zheng , Jiajun Deng , Xiaomeng Chu , Yu Yuan , Houqiang Li , Yanyong Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis with high visual quality. However, existing methods struggle with semi-transparent specular surfaces that exhibit both complex reflections and clear transmission, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ji Shi , Xianghua Ying , Bowei Xing , Ruohao Guo , Wenzhen Yue

Due to the real-time rendering performance, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as the leading method for radiance field reconstruction. However, its reliance on spherical harmonics for color encoding inherently limits its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Yang , Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

Differentiable rendering techniques have recently shown promising results for free-viewpoint video synthesis of characters. However, such methods, either Gaussian Splatting or neural implicit rendering, typically necessitate per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Boyao Zhou , Shunyuan Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has demonstrated impressive quality and efficiency in novel view synthesis. However, shape extraction from Gaussian primitives remains an open problem. Due to inadequate geometry parameterization and approximation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Baowen Zhang , Chenxing Jiang , Heng Li , Shaojie Shen , Ping Tan

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in scene reconstruction. However, most existing GS-based surface reconstruction methods focus on 3D objects or limited scenes. Directly applying these methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yuanyuan Gao , Yalun Dai , Hao Li , Weicai Ye , Junyi Chen , Danpeng Chen , Dingwen Zhang , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang , Junwei Han

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising performance in novel view synthesis. Previous methods adapt it to obtaining surfaces of either individual 3D objects or within limited scenes. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Junyi Chen , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Danpeng Chen , Di Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Guofeng Zhang , Yu Qiao , Tong He