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We present PhySG, an end-to-end inverse rendering pipeline that includes a fully differentiable renderer and can reconstruct geometry, materials, and illumination from scratch from a set of RGB input images. Our framework represents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Qianqian Wang , Kavita Bala , Noah Snavely

Gaussian Splatting (GS) is a recent and pivotal technique in 3D computer graphics. GS-based algorithms almost always bypass classical methods such as ray tracing, which offer numerous inherent advantages for rendering. For example, ray…

Dynamic urban scene modeling is a rapidly evolving area with broad applications. While current approaches leveraging neural radiance fields or Gaussian Splatting have achieved fine-grained reconstruction and high-fidelity novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuru Xiao , Zihan Lin , Chao Lu , Deming Zhai , Kui Jiang , Wenbo Zhao , Wei Zhang , Junjun Jiang , Huanran Wang , Xianming Liu

We present the first system for physically based, neural inverse rendering from multi-viewpoint videos of propagating light. Our approach relies on a time-resolved extension of neural radiance caching -- a technique that accelerates inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Anagh Malik , Benjamin Attal , Andrew Xie , Matthew O'Toole , David B. Lindell

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

The 3D Gaussian splatting methods are getting popular. However, they work directly on the signal, leading to a dense representation of the signal. Even with some techniques such as pruning or distillation, the results are still dense. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yuanhao Gong

We introduce SeaSplat, a method to enable real-time rendering of underwater scenes leveraging recent advances in 3D radiance fields. Underwater scenes are challenging visual environments, as rendering through a medium such as water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Daniel Yang , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an alternative representation that leverages a 3D Gaussian-based representation and introduces an approximated volumetric rendering, achieving very fast rendering speed and promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

This paper proposes a novel framework for large-scale scene reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and aims to address the scalability and accuracy challenges faced by existing methods. For tackling the scalability issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hanyue Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Xinhe Zuo , Yuxin Tong , Ying Long , Chen Liu

Novel view synthesis has experienced significant advancements owing to increasingly capable NeRF- and 3DGS-based methods. However, reflective object reconstruction remains challenging, lacking a proper solution to achieve real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuxuan Yao , Zixuan Zeng , Chun Gu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable success in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse viewpoints remains highly challenging due to insufficient visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaorui Wang , Yi Gu , Deming Zhou , Renjing Xu

Rendering complex reflection of real-world scenes using 3D Gaussian splatting has been a quite promising solution for photorealistic novel view synthesis, but still faces bottlenecks especially in rendering speed and memory storage. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chang Liu , Hongliang Yuan , Lianghao Zhang , Sichao Wang , Jianwei Guo , Shi-Sheng 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

Radiance Field methods have recently revolutionized novel-view synthesis of scenes captured with multiple photos or videos. However, achieving high visual quality still requires neural networks that are costly to train and render, while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bernhard Kerbl , Georgios Kopanas , Thomas Leimkühler , George Drettakis

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained great attention in the 3D scene representation for its high-quality real-time rendering capabilities. However, when the input comprises sparse training views, 3DGS is prone to overfitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ruocheng Wu , Haolan He , Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li , Bihan Wen

Recovering the intrinsic physical attributes of a scene from images, generally termed as the inverse rendering problem, has been a central and challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. In this paper, we present GUS-IR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zhihao Liang , Hongdong Li , Kui Jia , Kailing Guo , Qi Zhang

Inverse rendering methods that account for global illumination are becoming more popular, but current methods require evaluating and automatically differentiating millions of path integrals by tracing multiple light bounces, which remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Jan Novák , Fabrice Rousselle , Matthias Zwicker

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has become one of the most important neural rendering algorithms. GS represents 3D scenes using Gaussian components with trainable color and opacity. This representation achieves high-quality renderings with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Krzysztof Byrski , Grzegorz Wilczyński , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Piotr Borycki , Dawid Baran , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

3D Gaussian splatting (GS) has emerged as a transformative technique in radiance fields. Unlike mainstream implicit neural models, 3D GS uses millions of learnable 3D Gaussians for an explicit scene representation. Paired with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guikun Chen , Wenguan Wang

We develop a method that recovers the surface, materials, and illumination of a scene from its posed multi-view images. In contrast to prior work, it does not require any additional data and can handle glossy objects or bright lighting. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yue Fan , Ningjing Fan , Ivan Skorokhodov , Oleg Voynov , Savva Ignatyev , Evgeny Burnaev , Peter Wonka , Yiqun Wang