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Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for accurately representing scenes. However, despite its superior novel view synthesis capabilities, extracting the geometry of the scene directly from the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yaniv Wolf , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

Reconstructing urban street scenes is crucial due to its vital role in applications such as autonomous driving and urban planning. These scenes are characterized by long and narrow camera trajectories, occlusion, complex object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiao Cui , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Guofeng Zhang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Recent developments in 3D Gaussian Splatting have made significant advances in surface reconstruction. However, scaling these methods to large-scale scenes remains challenging due to high computational demands and the complex dynamic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shihan Chen , Zhaojin Li , Zeyu Chen , Qingsong Yan , Gaoyang Shen , Ran Duan

Underwater image degradation poses significant challenges for 3D reconstruction, where simplified physical models often fail in complex scenes. We propose \textbf{R-Splatting}, a unified framework that bridges underwater image restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Guoxi Huang , Haoran Wang , Zipeng Qi , Wenjun Lu , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

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

Recent advances in optimizing Gaussian Splatting for scene geometry have enabled efficient reconstruction of detailed surfaces from images. However, when input views are sparse, such optimization is prone to overfitting, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Meiying Gu , Jiawei Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Haonan Luo , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

We propose GauS-SLAM, a dense RGB-D SLAM system that leverages 2D Gaussian surfels to achieve robust tracking and high-fidelity mapping. Our investigations reveal that Gaussian-based scene representations exhibit geometry distortion under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yongxin Su , Lin Chen , Kaiting Zhang , Zhongliang Zhao , Chenfeng Hou , Ziping Yu

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations have demonstrated remarkable performance in novel view synthesis; further, material-lighting disentanglement on 3DGS warrants relighting capabilities and its adaptability to broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kai Ye , Chong Gao , Guanbin Li , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen

Underwater 3D reconstruction and appearance restoration are hindered by the complex optical properties of water, such as wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based methods struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinrui Zhang , Yufeng Wang , Shuangkang Fang , Zesheng Wang , Dacheng Qi , Wenrui Ding

Despite recent advances in leveraging generative prior from pre-trained diffusion models for 3D scene reconstruction, existing methods still face two critical limitations. First, due to the lack of reliable geometric supervision, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junfeng Ni , Yixin Chen , Zhifei Yang , Yu Liu , Ruijie Lu , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized radiance field reconstruction, manifesting efficient and high-fidelity novel view synthesis. However, accurately representing surfaces, especially in large and complex scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yang Liu , Chuanchen Luo , Zhongkai Mao , Junran Peng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently attracted wide attentions in various areas such as 3D navigation, Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D simulation, due to its photorealistic and efficient rendering performance. High-quality reconstrution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hanqing Jiang , Xiaojun Xiang , Han Sun , Hongjie Li , Liyang Zhou , Xiaoyu Zhang , Guofeng Zhang

Gaussian splatting techniques have shown promising results in novel view synthesis, achieving high fidelity and efficiency. However, their high reconstruction quality comes at the cost of requiring a large number of primitives. We identify…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xin Zhang , Anpei Chen , Jincheng Xiong , Pinxuan Dai , Yujun Shen , Weiwei Xu

Accurate geometric reconstruction of deformable tissues in monocular endoscopic video remains a fundamental challenge in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. Although recent volumetric and point primitive methods based on neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Idris O. Sunmola , Zhenjun Zhao , Samuel Schmidgall , Yumeng Wang , Paul Maria Scheikl , Viet Pham , Axel Krieger

In this paper, we introduce Textured-GS, an innovative method for rendering Gaussian splatting that incorporates spatially defined color and opacity variations using Spherical Harmonics (SH). This approach enables each Gaussian to exhibit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Zhentao Huang , Minglun Gong

The problem of 3D reconstruction from posed images is undergoing a fundamental transformation, driven by continuous advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By modeling scenes explicitly as collections of 3D Gaussians, 3DGS enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Vitor Pereira Matias , Daniel Perazzo , Vinicius Silva , Alberto Raposo , Luiz Velho , Afonso Paiva , Tiago Novello

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized fast novel view synthesis, yet its opacity-based formulation makes surface extraction fundamentally difficult. Unlike implicit methods built on Signed Distance Fields or occupancy, 3DGS lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Diego Gomez , Antoine Guédon , Nissim Maruani , Bingchen Gong , Maks Ovsjanikov

The underwater 3D scene reconstruction is a challenging, yet interesting problem with applications ranging from naval robots to VR experiences. The problem was successfully tackled by fully volumetric NeRF-based methods which can model both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huapeng Li , Wenxuan Song , Tianao Xu , Alexandre Elsig , Jonas Kulhanek

Accurate geometric surface reconstruction, providing essential environmental information for navigation and manipulation tasks, is critical for enabling robotic self-exploration and interaction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Zhaoning Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Zongqian Zhan

Previous surface reconstruction methods either suffer from low geometric accuracy or lengthy training times when dealing with real-world complex dynamic scenes involving multi-person activities, and human-object interactions. To tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shuo Wang , Binbin Huang , Ruoyu Wang , Shenghua Gao