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In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chun Gu , Xiaofei Wei , Zixuan Zeng , Yuxuan Yao , Li Zhang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an alternative representation that leverages a 3D Gaussian-based representation and introduces an approximated volumetric rendering, achieving very fast rendering speed and promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

We propose a novel cross-spectral rendering framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that generates realistic and semantically meaningful splats from registered multi-view spectrum and segmentation maps. This extension enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Saptarshi Neil Sinha , Holger Graf , Michael Weinmann

Reflective appearance, especially strong and typically near-field specular reflections, poses a fundamental challenge for accurate surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Existing Gaussian splatting methods either fail to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ningjing Fan , Yiqun Wang , Dongming Yan , Peter Wonka

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made remarkable progress in RGBD SLAM. Current methods usually use 3D Gaussians or view-tied 3D Gaussians to represent radiance fields in tracking and mapping. However, these Gaussians are either too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

3D Gaussian splatting has been widely adopted as a 3D representation for novel-view synthesis, relighting, and 3D generation tasks. It delivers realistic and detailed results through a collection of explicit 3D Gaussian primitives, each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xin Sun , Iliyan Georgiev , Yun Fei , Miloš Hašan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged in computer vision as a promising rendering technique. By adapting the principles of Elliptical Weighted Average (EWA) splatting to a modern differentiable pipeline, 3DGS enables real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ling Chen , Bao Yang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a popular radiance field method, with many application-specific extensions. Most variants rely on the same core algorithm: depth-sorting of Gaussian splats then rasterizing in primitive order. This ensures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shakiba Kheradmand , Delio Vicini , George Kopanas , Dmitry Lagun , Kwang Moo Yi , Mark Matthews , Andrea Tagliasacchi

3D modeling of highly reflective objects remains challenging due to strong view-dependent appearances. While previous SDF-based methods can recover high-quality meshes, they are often time-consuming and tend to produce over-smoothed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jinguang Tong , Xuesong li , Fahira Afzal Maken , Sundaram Muthu , Lars Petersson , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li

We present a novel, hardware rasterized rendering approach for ray-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (RayGS), obtaining both fast and high-quality results for novel view synthesis. Our work contains a mathematically rigorous and geometrically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Samuel Rota Bulò , Nemanja Bartolovic , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities in novel view synthesis. However, rendering reflective objects remains a significant challenge, particularly in inverse rendering and relighting. We introduce RTR-GS, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yongyang Zhou , Fang-Lue Zhang , Zichen Wang , Lei Zhang

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

Differentiable rendering with 3D Gaussian primitives has emerged as a powerful method for reconstructing high-fidelity 3D scenes from multi-view images. While it offers improvements over NeRF-based methods, this representation still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kaifeng Sheng , Zheng Zhou , Yingliang Peng , Qianwei Wang

The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique has significantly advanced the construction of radiance fields from multi-view images, enabling real-time rendering. While point-based rasterization effectively reduces computational demands for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jiaze Li , Zhengyu Wen , Luo Zhang , Jiangbei Hu , Fei Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient reconstruction and high-fidelity real-time rendering of complex scenes on consumer hardware. However, due to its rasterization-based formulation, 3DGS is constrained to ideal pinhole cameras…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Qi Wu , Janick Martinez Esturo , Ashkan Mirzaei , Nicolas Moenne-Loccoz , Zan Gojcic

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

We proposed Precomputed RadianceTransfer of GaussianSplats (PRTGS), a real-time high-quality relighting method for Gaussian splats in low-frequency lighting environments that captures soft shadows and interreflections by precomputing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yijia Guo , Yuanxi Bai , Liwen Hu , Ziyi Guo , Mianzhi Liu , Yu Cai , Tiejun Huang , Lei Ma

We introduce a simple yet effective approach for separating transmitted and reflected light. Our key insight is that the powerful novel view synthesis capabilities provided by modern inverse rendering methods (e.g.,~3D Gaussian splatting)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mingyang Xie , Haoming Cai , Sachin Shah , Yiran Xu , Brandon Y. Feng , Jia-Bin Huang , Christopher A. Metzler

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently revolutionized radiance field reconstruction, achieving high quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering speed without baking. However, 3DGS fails to accurately represent surfaces due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Binbin Huang , Zehao Yu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Shenghua Gao

3D Gaussian Splatting showcases notable advancements in photo-realistic and real-time novel view synthesis. However, it faces challenges in modeling mirror reflections, which exhibit substantial appearance variations from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayue Liu , Xiao Tang , Freeman Cheng , Roy Yang , Zhihao Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Yi Huang , Jiaqi Lin , Shiyong Liu , Xiaofei Wu , Songcen Xu , Chun Yuan