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The advent of neural 3D Gaussians has recently brought about a revolution in the field of neural rendering, facilitating the generation of high-quality renderings at real-time speeds. However, the explicit and discrete representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yingwenqi Jiang , Jiadong Tu , Yuan Liu , Xifeng Gao , Xiaoxiao Long , Wenping Wang , Yuexin Ma

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for accurately representing scenes. However, despite its superior novel view synthesis capabilities, extracting the geometry of the scene directly from the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yaniv Wolf , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has recently emerged as a promising method for novel view synthesis and surface reconstruction, offering better view-consistency and geometric accuracy than volumetric 3DGS. However, 2DGS suffers from severe…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma

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

Efficiently synthesizing novel views from sparse inputs while maintaining accuracy remains a critical challenge in 3D reconstruction. While advanced techniques like radiance fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting achieve rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Yu Lin , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

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

Synthesizing consistent and photorealistic 3D scenes is an open problem in computer vision. Video diffusion models generate impressive videos but cannot directly synthesize 3D representations, i.e., lack 3D consistency in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Katja Schwarz , Norman Mueller , Peter Kontschieder

Image representation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recently, Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation framework, and its extension to 2D image representation enables lightweight, yet expressive modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Masaya Takabe , Hiroshi Watanabe , Sujun Hong , Tomohiro Ikai , Zheming Fan , Ryo Ishimoto , Kakeru Sugimoto , Ruri Imichi

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

We present a novel method for 6-DoF object tracking and high-quality 3D reconstruction from monocular RGBD video. Existing methods, while achieving impressive results, often struggle with complex objects, particularly those exhibiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Takuya Ikeda , Sergey Zakharov , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Istvan Balazs Opra , Shun Iwase , Dian Chen , Mark Tjersland , Robert Lee , Alexandre Dilly , Rares Ambrus , Koichi Nishiwaki

Transient objects in video sequences can significantly degrade the quality of 3D scene reconstructions. To address this challenge, we propose T-3DGS, a novel framework that robustly filters out transient distractors during 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Alexander Markin , Vadim Pryadilshchikov , Artem Komarichev , Ruslan Rakhimov , Peter Wonka , Evgeny Burnaev

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) have established new benchmarks for rendering quality and efficiency in 3D reconstruction. However, 3D-GS faces critical limitations when generating novel views that significantly deviate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yifei Gao , Kerui Ren , Jie Ou , Lei Wang , Jiaji Wu , Jun Cheng

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity for efficient scene rendering by representing scenes as explicit sets of anisotropic 3D Gaussians. However, most existing work focuses primarily on modeling external surfaces. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Shuxin Liang , Yihan Xiao , Wenlu Tang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a leading 3D scene reconstruction method, obtaining high-quality reconstruction with real-time rendering runtime performance. The main idea behind 3DGS is to represent the scene as a collection of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rajaei Khatib , Raja Giryes

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently enabled real-time rendering of unbounded 3D scenes for novel view synthesis. However, this technique requires dense training views to accurately reconstruct 3D geometry. A limited number of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haolin Xiong , Sairisheek Muttukuru , Rishi Upadhyay , Pradyumna Chari , Achuta Kadambi

The underwater 3D scene reconstruction is a challenging, yet interesting problem with applications ranging from naval robots to VR experiences. The problem was successfully tackled by fully volumetric NeRF-based methods which can model both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huapeng Li , Wenxuan Song , Tianao Xu , Alexandre Elsig , Jonas Kulhanek

Reconstructing high-fidelity underwater scenes remains a challenging task due to light absorption, scattering, and limited visibility inherent in aquatic environments. This paper presents an enhanced Gaussian Splatting-based framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhuodong Jiang , Haoran Wang , Guoxi Huang , Brett Seymour , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted widespread attention due to its high-quality rendering, and ultra-fast training and rendering speed. However, due to the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Danpeng Chen , Hai Li , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Weijian Xie , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang