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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown its ability in rapid rendering and high-fidelity mapping. In this paper, we introduce LVI-GS, a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Visual-Inertial mapping framework with 3DGS, which leverages the complementary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Huibin Zhao , Weipeng Guan , Peng Lu

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time, photorealistic scene reconstruction. However, conventional 3DGS frameworks typically rely on sparse point clouds derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yan Fang , Jianfei Ge , Jiangjian Xiao

Designing and validating sensor applications and algorithms in simulation is an important step in the modern development process. Furthermore, modern open-source multi-sensor simulation frameworks are moving towards the usage of video-game…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wouter Jansen , Nico Huebel , Jan Steckel

Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from 2D images and generating diverse views over time is challenging due to scene complexity and temporal dynamics. Despite advancements in neural implicit models, limitations persist: (i) Inadequate Scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Zeyu Yang , Hongye Yang , Zijie Pan , Li Zhang

Recent GS-based rendering has made significant progress for LiDAR, surpassing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in both quality and speed. However, these methods exhibit artifacts in extrapolated novel view synthesis due to the incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qifeng Chen , Jiarun Liu , Rengan Xie , Tao Tang , Sicong Du , Yiru Zhao , Yuchi Huo , Sheng Yang

Radiance field methods represent the state of the art in reconstructing complex scenes from multi-view photos. However, these reconstructions often suffer from one or both of the following limitations: First, they typically represent scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Chao Wang , Krzysztof Wolski , Bernhard Kerbl , Ana Serrano , Mojtaba Bemana , Hans-Peter Seidel , Karol Myszkowski , Thomas Leimkühler

Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shrisudhan Govindarajan , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Reconstructing dynamic scenes with large-scale and complex motions remains a significant challenge. Recent techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown promise but still struggle with scenes involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Qiankun Gao , Yanmin Wu , Chengxiang Wen , Jiarui Meng , Luyang Tang , Jie Chen , Ronggang Wang , Jian Zhang

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

We present DrivingGaussian++, an efficient and effective framework for realistic reconstructing and controllable editing of surrounding dynamic autonomous driving scenes. DrivingGaussian++ models the static background using incremental 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yajiao Xiong , Xiaoyu Zhou , Yongtao Wan , Deqing Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we present a real-time photo-realistic SLAM method based on marrying Gaussian Splatting with LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM. Most existing radiance-field-based SLAM systems mainly focus on bounded indoor environments, equipped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xiaolei Lang , Laijian Li , Chenming Wu , Chen Zhao , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv , Xingxing Zuo

Methods for Novel View Synthesis (NVS) have recently found traction in the field of LiDAR simulation and large-scale 3D scene reconstruction. While solutions for faster rendering or handling dynamic scenes have been proposed, LiDAR specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Richard Marcus , Marc Stamminger

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

Dynamic scene rendering and reconstruction play a crucial role in computer vision and augmented reality. Recent methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have enabled accurate modeling of dynamic urban scenes, but for urban scenes they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Siddharth Tourani , Jayaram Reddy , Akash Kumbar , Satyajit Tourani , Nishant Goyal , Madhava Krishna , N. Dinesh Reddy , Muhammad Haris Khan

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

We present TraceFlow, a novel framework for high-fidelity rendering of dynamic specular scenes by addressing two key challenges: precise reflection direction estimation and physically accurate reflection modeling. To achieve this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jiachen Tao , Junyi Wu , Haoxuan Wang , Zongxin Yang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan

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

With the ability of providing direct and accurate enough range measurements, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is playing an essential role in localization and detection for autonomous vehicles. Since single LiDAR suffers from hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yusheng Wang , Yidong Lou , Weiwei Song , Huan Yu , Zhiyong Tu

High-Fidelity 3D scene reconstruction plays a crucial role in autonomous driving by enabling novel data generation from existing datasets. This allows simulating safety-critical scenarios and augmenting training datasets without incurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pou-Chun Kung , Skanda Harisha , Ram Vasudevan , Aline Eid , Katherine A. Skinner

We propose Transmission-Reflection Gaussians (TR-Gaussians), a novel 3D-Gaussian-based representation for high-fidelity rendering of planar transmission and reflection, which are ubiquitous in indoor scenes. Our method combines 3D Gaussians…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yong Liu , Keyang Ye , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou