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Recently, 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has demonstrated superior geometry reconstruction quality than the popular 3DGS by using 2D surfels to approximate thin surfaces. However, it falls short when dealing with glossy surfaces, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yixin Yang , Yang Zhou , Hui 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

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

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have demonstrated the feasibility of self-driving scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, most existing methods either rely solely on cameras or use LiDAR only for Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 ZY Chen , F Zhu , H Zhu , DY Kong , XK Kuang , YJ Zhang , CM Jiang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results in image rendering and surface reconstruction. However, its potential in volumetric reconstruction tasks, such as X-ray computed tomography, remains under-explored. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ruyi Zha , Tao Jun Lin , Yuanhao Cai , Jiwen Cao , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

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…

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

Gaussian Splatting is a powerful tool for reconstructing diffuse scenes, but it struggles to simultaneously model specular reflections and the appearance of objects behind semi-transparent surfaces. These specular reflections and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Kunnong Zeng , Chensheng Peng , Yichen Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Cem Yuksel

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has made a notable advancement in the field of neural rendering, 3D scene reconstruction, and novel view synthesis. Nevertheless, 3D-GS encounters the main challenge when it comes to accurately representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Rui Zhang , Tianyue Luo , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei , Jingyi Xu , Qingyuan Zhou , Keyi Liu , Ying He

The use of 3D Gaussians as representation of radiance fields has enabled high quality novel view synthesis at real-time rendering speed. However, the choice of optimising the outgoing radiance of each Gaussian independently as spherical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhe Jun Tang , Tat-Jen Cham

We present GSD, a diffusion model approach based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) representation for 3D object reconstruction from a single view. Prior works suffer from inconsistent 3D geometry or mediocre rendering quality due to improper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuxuan Mu , Xinxin Zuo , Chuan Guo , Yilin Wang , Juwei Lu , Xiaofeng Wu , Songcen Xu , Peng Dai , Youliang Yan , Li Cheng

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

Novel view synthesis (NVS) and surface reconstruction (SR) are essential tasks in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Despite recent progress, these tasks are often addressed independently, with GS-based rendering methods struggling under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qingyuan Zhou , Yuehu Gong , Weidong Yang , Jiaze Li , Yeqi Luo , Baixin Xu , Shuhao Li , Ben Fei , Ying He

Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as the go-to representation for reconstructing and rendering 3D scenes. The transition from 3D to 2D Gaussian primitives has further improved multi-view consistency and surface reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Sebastian Weiss , Derek Bradley

Gaussian Splatting has revolutionized the world of novel view synthesis by achieving high rendering performance in real-time. Recently, studies have focused on enriching these 3D representations with semantic information for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Mihnea-Bogdan Jurca , Remco Royen , Ion Giosan , Adrian Munteanu

Image data captured outdoors often exhibit unbounded scenes and unconstrained, varying lighting conditions, making it challenging to decompose them into geometry, reflectance, and illumination. Recent works have focused on achieving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lianjun Liao , Chunhui Zhang , Tong Wu , Henglei Lv , Bailin Deng , Lin Gao

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

We present Bidirectional Gaussian Primitives, an image-based novel view synthesis technique designed to represent and render 3D objects with surface and volumetric materials under dynamic illumination. Our approach integrates light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyuan Liu , Yu Guo , Xinyuan Li , Bernd Bickel , Ran Zhang

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

Surface reconstruction has been widely studied in computer vision and graphics. However, existing surface reconstruction works struggle to recover accurate scene geometry when the input views are extremely sparse. To address this issue, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Hanzhi Chang , Ruijie Zhu , Wenjie Chang , Mulin Yu , Yanzhe Liang , Jiahao Lu , Zhuoyuan Li , Tianzhu Zhang