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In the realm of robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, dynamic scene reconstruction can significantly enhance downstream tasks and improve surgical outcomes. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based methods have recently risen to prominence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yiming Huang , Beilei Cui , Long Bai , Ziqi Guo , Mengya Xu , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

Inverse rendering of glossy objects from RGB imagery remains fundamentally limited by inherent ambiguity. Although NeRF-based methods achieve high-fidelity reconstruction via dense-ray sampling, their computational cost is prohibitive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xingyuan Yang , Min Wei

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made a significant impact on rendering and reconstruction techniques. Current research predominantly focuses on improving rendering performance and reconstruction quality using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yinlong Bai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Junkai Niu , Hai Li , Yijia He , Yi Zhou

3D scene reconstruction and rendering are core tasks in computer vision, with applications spanning industrial monitoring, robotics, and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and its variants have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Chi-Shiang Gau , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Athanasios Bacharis , Saketh Madhuvarasu , Tara Javidi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enables 3D scene reconstruction from several 2D images but incurs high rendering latency via its point-sampling design. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) improves on NeRF with explicit scene representation and an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haomin Li , Bowen Zhu , Fangxin Liu , Zongwu Wang , Xinran Liang , Li Jiang , Haibing Guan

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

Recent novel view synthesis (NVS) techniques, including Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly advanced 3D scene reconstruction with high-quality rendering and realistic detail recovery. Effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wanzhou Liu , Zhexiao Xiong , Xinyu Li , Nathan Jacobs

Representing and rendering dynamic scenes has been an important but challenging task. Especially, to accurately model complex motions, high efficiency is usually hard to guarantee. To achieve real-time dynamic scene rendering while also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guanjun Wu , Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wei Wei , Wenyu Liu , Qi Tian , Xinggang Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves an appealing balance between rendering quality and efficiency, but relies on approximating 3D Gaussians as 2D projections--an assumption that degrades accuracy, especially under generic large…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zixun Huang , Cho-Ying Wu , Yuliang Guo , Xinyu Huang , Liu Ren

The 3D Gaussian splatting method has drawn a lot of attention, thanks to its high performance in training and high quality of the rendered image. However, it uses anisotropic Gaussian kernels to represent the scene. Although such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuanhao Gong , Lantao Yu , Guanghui Yue

Scene reconstruction has emerged as a central challenge in computer vision, with approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting achieving remarkable progress. While Gaussian Splatting demonstrates strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alexander Valverde , Brian Xu , Yuyin Zhou , Meng Xu , Hongyun Wang

3D scene reconstruction is fundamental for spatial intelligence applications such as AR, robotics, and digital twins. Traditional multi-view stereo struggles with sparse viewpoints or low-texture regions, while neural rendering approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiaqi Yao , Zhongmiao Yan , Jingyi Xu , Songpengcheng Xia , Yan Xiang , Ling Pei

This paper presents a novel approach for sparse 3D reconstruction by leveraging the expressive power of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and fast transfer of their features to learn accurate occupancy fields. Existing 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shubhendu Jena , Franck Multon , Adnane Boukhayma

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a powerful alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), excelling in complex scene reconstruction and efficient rendering. However, it relies on high-quality point clouds from Structure-from-Motion (SfM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziao Liu , Zhenjia Li , Yifeng Shi , Xiangang Li

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated the remarkable potential of neural networks to capture the intricacies of 3D objects. By encoding the shape and color information within neural network weights, NeRFs excel at producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak , Jacek Tabor , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing photorealistic images of large-scale scenes. However, they are often plagued by a loss of fine details and long rendering durations. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zipeng Wang , Dan Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in 3D scene reconstruction. Beyond novel view synthesis, it shows great potential for multi-view surface reconstruction. Existing methods employ optimization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chensheng Dai , Shengjun Zhang , Min Chen , Yueqi Duan

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

Rendering novel view images in dynamic scenes is a crucial yet challenging task. Current methods mainly utilize NeRF-based methods to represent the static scene and an additional time-variant MLP to model scene deformations, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Diwen Wan , Ruijie Lu , Gang Zeng