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Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated exceptional performance in image-based 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, regions with complex textures require numerous Gaussians to capture significant color variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Binxiao Huang , Zhihao Li , Shiyong Liu , Xiao Tang , Jiajun Tang , Jiaqi Lin , Yuxin Cheng , Zhenyu Chen , Xiaofei Wu , Ngai Wong

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown remarkable success in synthesizing novel views given multiple views of a static scene. Yet, 3DGS faces challenges when applied to dynamic scenes because 3D Gaussian parameters need to be updated per…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Hideki Nakayama

Gaussian Splatting has recently become one of the most popular frameworks for photorealistic 3D scene reconstruction and rendering. While current rasterizers allow for efficient mappings of 3D Gaussian splats onto 2D camera views, this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Daniel Lieber , Alexander Mock , Nils Wandel

Precisely modeling radio propagation in complex environments has been a significant challenge, especially with the advent of 5G and beyond networks, where managing massive antenna arrays demands more detailed information. Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lihao Zhang , Haijian Sun , Samuel Berweger , Camillo Gentile , Rose Qingyang Hu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a new method for modeling and rendering 3D radiance fields that achieves much faster learning and rendering time compared to SOTA NeRF methods. However, it comes with a drawback in the much larger storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 KL Navaneet , Kossar Pourahmadi Meibodi , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Hamed Pirsiavash

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive 3D reconstruction performance with explicit scene representations. Given the widespread application of 3DGS in 3D reconstruction and generation tasks, there is an urgent need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yijia Guo , Wenkai Huang , Yang Li , Gaolei Li , Hang Zhang , Liwen Hu , Jianhua Li , Tiejun Huang , Lei Ma

Implicit neural representation has paved the way for new approaches to dynamic scene reconstruction and rendering. Nonetheless, cutting-edge dynamic neural rendering methods rely heavily on these implicit representations, which frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Xinyu Gao , Wen Zhou , Shaohui Jiao , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaogang Jin

While existing feed-forward Gaussian splatting models offer computational efficiency and can generalize to sparse view settings, their performance is fundamentally constrained by relying on a single forward pass for inference. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Haofei Xu , Daniel Barath , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

3D Gaussian Splatting has made a marked impact on neural rendering by achieving impressive fidelity and performance. Despite this achievement, however, it is not readily applicable to developing interactive applications. Real-time…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xiangzhi Eric Wang , Zackary P. T. Sin

Explicit neural representations such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enable high-fidelity and real-time novel view synthesis, yet optimize for alpha-composited optical appearance rather than ray-intersectable geometry. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Niklas Vaara , Lam Huynh , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

We propose two novel ideas (adoption of deferred rendering and mesh-based representation) to improve the quality of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) based inverse rendering. We first report a problem incurred by hidden Gaussians, where…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Euntae Choi , Sungjoo Yoo

Due to the real-time rendering performance, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as the leading method for radiance field reconstruction. However, its reliance on spherical harmonics for color encoding inherently limits its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Yang , Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

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

Real-time rendering of dynamic scenes with view-dependent effects remains a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. While recent advances in Gaussian Splatting have shown promising results separately handling dynamic scenes (4DGS) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Anwesa Choudhuri , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from sparse-view satellite images is a long-standing and challenging task. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and its variants have recently attracted attention for its high efficiency, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xuejun Huang , Xinyi Liu , Yi Wan , Zhi Zheng , Bin Zhang , Mingtao Xiong , Yingying Pei , Yongjun Zhang

Simultaneously localizing camera poses and constructing Gaussian radiance fields in dynamic scenes establish a crucial bridge between 2D images and the 4D real world. Instead of removing dynamic objects as distractors and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yanyan Li , Youxu Fang , Zunjie Zhu , Kunyi Li , Yong Ding , Federico Tombari

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has become a vital tool for learning a radiance field from multiple posed images. Although 3DGS shows great advantages over NeRF in terms of rendering quality and efficiency, it remains a research challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jiaqi Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Physics simulation is paramount for modeling and utilizing 3D scenes in various real-world applications. However, integrating with state-of-the-art 3D scene rendering techniques such as Gaussian Splatting (GS) remains challenging. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Piotr Borycki , Weronika Smolak , Joanna Waczyńska , Marcin Mazur , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek