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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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have remodeled 3D scene representation since release. NeRFs can effectively reconstruct complex 3D scenes from 2D images, advancing different fields and applications such as scene understanding, 3D content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Wenhui Xiao , Remi Chierchia , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Xuesong Li , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Leo Lebrat

Recently, continuous representation methods emerge as novel paradigms that characterize the intrinsic structures of real-world data through function representations that map positional coordinates to their corresponding values in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yisi Luo , Xile Zhao , Deyu Meng

In recent years, the neural radiance field (NeRF) model has gained popularity due to its ability to recover complex 3D scenes. Following its success, many approaches proposed different NeRF representations in order to further improve both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Rajaei Khatib , Raja Giryes

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in capturing complex 3D scenes with high fidelity. However, one persistent challenge that hinders the widespread adoption of NeRFs is the computational bottleneck due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

3D modeling has long been an important area in computer vision and computer graphics. Recently, thanks to the breakthroughs in neural representations and generative models, we witnessed a rapid development of 3D modeling. 3D human modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ruihe Wang , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

We have witnessed significant progress in deep learning-based 3D vision, ranging from neural radiance field (NeRF) based 3D representation learning to applications in novel view synthesis (NVS). However, existing scene-level datasets for…

The ability for robots to perform efficient and zero-shot grasping of object parts is crucial for practical applications and is becoming prevalent with recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). To bridge the 2D-to-3D gap for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mazeyu Ji , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Xueyan Zou , Xiaolong Wang

Current 3D representations like meshes, voxels, point clouds, and NeRF-based neural implicit fields exhibit significant limitations: they are often task-specific, lacking universal applicability across reconstruction, generation, editing,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tielong Wang , Yuxuan Xiong , Jinfan Liu , Zhifan Zhang , Ye Chen , Yue Shi , Bingbing Ni

Following rapid advancements in text and image generation, research has increasingly shifted towards 3D generation. Unlike the well-established pixel-based representation in images, 3D representations remain diverse and fragmented,…

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has made remarkable progress in the field of computer vision and graphics, providing strong technical support for solving key tasks including 3D scene understanding, new perspective synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mingyuan Yao , Yukang Huo , Yang Ran , Qingbin Tian , Ruifeng Wang , Haihua Wang

Over the past two decades, research in the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has undergone a significant evolution, highlighting its critical role in enabling autonomous exploration of unknown environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Fabio Tosi , Youmin Zhang , Ziren Gong , Erik Sandström , Stefano Mattoccia , Martin R. Oswald , Matteo Poggi

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

3D segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications in autonomous driving and robotics. It has received significant attention from the computer vision, graphics and machine learning communities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Xiaoyan Liu , Zhengeng Yang , Wei Sun , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

We introduce an approach for selecting objects in neural volumetric 3D representations, such as multi-plane images (MPI) and neural radiance fields (NeRF). Our approach takes a set of foreground and background 2D user scribbles in one view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongzheng Ren , Aseem Agarwala , Bryan Russell , Alexander G. Schwing , Oliver Wang

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

This paper introduces a generalised 3rd-order Spectral Representation Method for the simulation of multi-dimensional stochastic fields with asymmetric non-linearities. The simulated random fields satisfy a prescribed Power Spectrum and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Lohit Vandanapu , Michael D. Shields