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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

Understanding physical properties such as friction, stiffness, hardness, and material composition is essential for enabling robots to interact safely and effectively with their surroundings. However, existing 3D reconstruction methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Samarth Chopra , Jing Liang , Gershom Seneviratne , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we present a novel geometry-aware RGB-D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system, named G2S-ICP SLAM. The proposed method performs high-fidelity 3D reconstruction and robust camera pose tracking in real-time by representing each scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Gyuhyeon Pak , Hae Min Cho , Euntai Kim

Dense 3D representations of the environment have been a long-term goal in the robotics field. While previous Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) representation have been prevalent for its implicit, coordinate-based model, the recent emergence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Siting Zhu , Guangming Wang , Xin Kong , Dezhi Kong , Hesheng Wang

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a novel paradigm for 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery. However, in multi-temporal satellite images, prevalent shadows exhibit significant inconsistencies due to varying illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Feng Luo , Hongbo Pan , Xiang Yang , Baoyu Jiang , Fengqing Liu , Tao Huang

In this paper, we introduce GS-LIVM, a real-time photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Visual mapping framework with Gaussian Splatting tailored for outdoor scenes. Compared to existing methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jin Wu , Jun Ma

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing high-fidelity novel views. Nonetheless, its effectiveness critically depends on the quality of the initialized point cloud. Specifically, achieving uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yikang Zhang , Rui Fan

Three-dimensional Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an efficient representation for novel-view synthesis, achieving impressive visual quality. However, in scenes dominated by large and low-texture regions, common in indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xirui Jin , Renbiao Jin , Boying Li , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu

Visual localization involves estimating a query image's 6-DoF (degrees of freedom) camera pose, which is a fundamental component in various computer vision and robotic tasks. This paper presents LoGS, a vision-based localization pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuzhou Cheng , Jianhao Jiao , Yue Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, differentiable rendering and high-fidelity reconstruction across diverse real-world scenes. However, existing 3DGS-SLAM approaches handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) allows flexible adjustments to scene representation, enabling continuous optimization of scene quality during dense visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in static environments. However, 3DGS faces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Long Wen , Shixin Li , Yu Zhang , Yuhong Huang , Jianjie Lin , Fengjunjie Pan , Zhenshan Bing , Alois Knoll

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized photorealistic rendering, its vast ecosystem of assets remains incompatible with high-performance LiDAR simulation, a critical tool for robotics and autonomous driving. We present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junzhe Wu , Yufei Jia , Yiyi Yan , Zhixing Chen , Tiao Tan , Zifan Wang , Guangyu Wang

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

Initial applications of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) demonstrate the generation of high-quality volumetric reconstructions from monocular video streams. However, despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yan Song Hu , Dayou Mao , Yuhao Chen , John Zelek

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables high-quality, real-time rendering for bounded scenes, its extension to large-scale urban environments gives rise to critical challenges in terms of geometric consistency, memory efficiency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Changbai Li , Haodong Zhu , Hanlin Chen , Xiuping Liang , Tongfei Chen , Shuwei Shao , Linlin Yang , Huobin Tan , Baochang Zhang

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly influenced neural fields, as it enables high-fidelity rendering with impressive visual quality. However, 3DGS has difficulty accurately representing surfaces. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haofan Ren , Qingsong Yan , Ming Lu , Rongfeng Lu , Zunjie Zhu

Although various visual localization approaches exist, such as scene coordinate regression and camera pose regression, these methods often struggle with optimization complexity or limited accuracy. To address these challenges, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Gennady Sidorov , Malik Mohrat , Denis Gridusov , Ruslan Rakhimov , Sergey Kolyubin

Following the advent of NeRFs, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has paved the way to real-time neural rendering overcoming the computational burden of volumetric methods. Following the pioneering work of 3D-GS, several methods have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evangelos Ververas , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jifei Song , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Abstract representations of 3D scenes play a crucial role in computer vision, enabling a wide range of applications such as mapping, localization, surface reconstruction, and even advanced tasks like SLAM and rendering. Among these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chenggang Yang , Yuang Shi