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The significance of informative and robust point representations has been widely acknowledged for 3D scene understanding. Despite existing self-supervised pre-training counterparts demonstrating promising performance, the model collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Lei Yao , Yi Wang , Yi Zhang , Moyun Liu , Lap-Pui Chau

We propose Differentiable Surface Splatting (DSS), a high-fidelity differentiable renderer for point clouds. Gradients for point locations and normals are carefully designed to handle discontinuities of the rendering function.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Wang Yifan , Felice Serena , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Öztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-fidelity rendering with fast real-time performance, but existing methods rely on offline training after full Structure-from-Motion (SfM) processing. In contrast, this work introduces Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwei Xu , Yifei Yu , Wentian Gan , Tengfei Wang , Zongqian Zhan , Hao Cheng , Xin Wang

Large-scale 3D reconstruction is critical in the field of robotics, and the potential of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for achieving accurate object-level reconstruction has been demonstrated. However, ensuring geometric accuracy in outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Changjian Jiang , Ruilan Gao , Kele Shao , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Yu Zhang

Recently, generalizable human Gaussian splatting from sparse-view inputs has been actively studied for the photorealistic human rendering. Most existing methods rely on explicit geometric constraints or predefined structural representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jingi Kim , Wonjun Kim

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

In this work, we propose computational models and algorithms for point cloud registration with non-rigid transformation. First, point clouds sampled from manifolds originally embedded in some Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^D$ are transformed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Rongjie Lai , Hongkai Zhao

Recently, immersive media and autonomous driving applications have significantly advanced through 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which offers high-fidelity rendering and computational efficiency. Despite these advantages, 3DGS as a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kangli Wang , Shihao Li , Qianxi Yi , Wei Gao

Dense colored point clouds enhance visual perception and are of significant value in various robotic applications. However, existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods are constrained by computational resources and batch…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zixuan Guo , Yifan Xie , Weijing Xie , Peng Huang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has recently emerged as a powerful technique for real-time, photorealistic rendering by optimizing anisotropic Gaussian primitives from view-dependent images. While 3D-GS has been extended to scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mengjiao Han , Andres Sewell , Joseph Insley , Janet Knowles , Victor A. Mateevitsi , Michael E. Papka , Steve Petruzza , Silvio Rizzi

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time, photorealistic scene reconstruction. However, conventional 3DGS frameworks typically rely on sparse point clouds derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yan Fang , Jianfei Ge , Jiangjian Xiao

Gaussian Splatting (GS) is a novel, state-of-the-art technique for rendering points in a 3D scene by approximating their contribution to image pixels through Gaussian distributions, warranting fast training and real-time rendering. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Joanna Waczyńska , Piotr Borycki , Sławomir Tadeja , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Wide-baseline panoramic images are frequently used in applications like VR and simulations to minimize capturing labor costs and storage needs. However, synthesizing novel views from these panoramic images in real time remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zheng Chen , Chenming Wu , Zhelun Shen , Chen Zhao , Weicai Ye , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Song-Hai Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized fast novel view synthesis, yet its opacity-based formulation makes surface extraction fundamentally difficult. Unlike implicit methods built on Signed Distance Fields or occupancy, 3DGS lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Diego Gomez , Antoine Guédon , Nissim Maruani , Bingchen Gong , Maks Ovsjanikov

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

In this paper, we propose a novel semantic splatting approach based on Gaussian Splatting to achieve efficient and low-latency. Our method projects the RGB attributes and semantic features of point clouds onto the image plane,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zipeng Qi , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Pre-training on large-scale unlabeled datasets contribute to the model achieving powerful performance on 3D vision tasks, especially when annotations are limited. However, existing rendering-based self-supervised frameworks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hao Liu , Minglin Chen , Yanni Ma , Haihong Xiao , Ying He

The spectral structure of the Laplacian-Beltrami operator (LBO) on manifolds has been widely used in many applications, include spectral clustering, dimensionality reduction, mesh smoothing, compression and editing, shape segmentation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Zuoqiang Shi , Jian Sun

Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic surgical scenes from endoscopic video is essential for robotic-assisted surgery. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise in achieving high-quality reconstructions with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jialei Chen , Xin Zhang , Mobarakol Islam , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Daniel S. Elson , Baoru Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized radiance field reconstruction by achieving high-quality novel view synthesis with fast rendering speed, introducing 3D Gaussian primitives to represent the scene. However, 3DGS encounters…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yifan Mo , Youcheng Cai , Ligang Liu