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We propose Pulsar, an efficient sphere-based differentiable renderer that is orders of magnitude faster than competing techniques, modular, and easy-to-use due to its tight integration with PyTorch. Differentiable rendering is the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Christoph Lassner , Michael Zollhöfer

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Krzysztof Byrski , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Marcin Kądziołka , Dawid Baran , Przemysław Spurek

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 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

Radio frequency (RF) propagation modeling poses unique electromagnetic simulation challenges. While recent neural representations have shown success in visible spectrum rendering, the fundamentally different scales and physics of RF signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Xingyu Chen , Zihao Feng , Kun Qian , Xinyu Zhang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled photorealistic view synthesis at high inference speeds. However, its splatting-based rendering model makes several approximations to the rendering equation, reducing physical accuracy. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chinmay Talegaonkar , Yash Belhe , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Nicholas Antipa

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

Vision foundation models trained on massive amounts of visual data have shown unprecedented reasoning and planning skills in open-world settings. A key challenge in applying them to robotic tasks is the modality gap between visual data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ruoshi Liu , Alper Canberk , Shuran Song , Carl Vondrick

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has proven to be highly effective in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality and real-time rendering. However, its potential for reconstructing detailed 3D shapes has not been fully explored. Existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Baowen Zhang , Chuan Fang , Rakesh Shrestha , Yixun Liang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

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

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) is a new rendering approach that outperforms the neural radiance field (NeRF) in terms of both speed and image quality. 3D-GS represents 3D scenes by utilizing millions of 3D Gaussians and projects these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Joongho Jo , Hyeongwon Kim , Jongsun 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

Capturing and reconstructing high-speed dynamic 3D scenes has numerous applications in computer graphics, vision, and interdisciplinary fields such as robotics, aerodynamics, and evolutionary biology. However, achieving this using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Zihao Zou , Ziyuan Qu , Xi Peng , Vivek Boominathan , Adithya Pediredla , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Traditional ultrasound simulation methods solve wave equations numerically, achieving high accuracy but at substantial computational cost. Faster alternatives based on convolution with precomputed impulse responses remain relatively slow,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) achieves efficient rendering for novel view synthesis, extending it to dynamic scenes still results in substantial memory overhead from replicating Gaussians across frames. To address this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chun-Tin Wu , Jun-Cheng Chen

Efficient neural representations for dynamic video scenes are critical for applications ranging from video compression to interactive simulations. Yet, existing methods often face challenges related to high memory usage, lengthy training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Andrew Bond , Jui-Hsien Wang , Long Mai , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Real-time rendering of dynamic line sets is relevant in many visualization tasks, including unsteady flow visualization and interactive white matter reconstruction from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. High-quality global illumination and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bram Kraaijeveld , Andrei C. Jalba , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland

Existing NeRF-based methods for large scene reconstruction often have limitations in visual quality and rendering speed. While the recent 3D Gaussian Splatting works well on small-scale and object-centric scenes, scaling it up to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jiaqi Lin , Zhihao Li , Xiao Tang , Jianzhuang Liu , Shiyong Liu , Jiayue Liu , Yangdi Lu , Xiaofei Wu , Songcen Xu , Youliang Yan , Wenming Yang

With the advancement of Gaussian Splatting techniques, a growing number of datasets based on this representation have been developed. However, performing accurate and efficient clipping for Gaussian Splatting remains a challenging and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Da Li , Donggang Jia , Yousef Rajeh , Dominik Engel , Ivan Viola

Dynamic urban scene modeling is a rapidly evolving area with broad applications. While current approaches leveraging neural radiance fields or Gaussian Splatting have achieved fine-grained reconstruction and high-fidelity novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuru Xiao , Zihan Lin , Chao Lu , Deming Zhai , Kui Jiang , Wenbo Zhao , Wei Zhang , Junjun Jiang , Huanran Wang , Xianming Liu