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Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly influenced neural fields, as it enables high-fidelity rendering with impressive visual quality. However, 3DGS has difficulty accurately representing surfaces. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haofan Ren , Qingsong Yan , Ming Lu , Rongfeng Lu , Zunjie Zhu

Recent studies in Radiance Fields have paved the robust way for novel view synthesis with their photorealistic rendering quality. Nevertheless, they usually employ neural networks and volumetric rendering, which are costly to train and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Byeonghyeon Lee , Howoong Lee , Xiangyu Sun , Usman Ali , Eunbyung Park

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has revolutionized three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction with its implicit representation. Building upon NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has departed from the implicit representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bin Zhang , Bi Zeng , Zexin Peng

We propose a method to enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)~\cite{Kerbl2023}, addressing challenges in initialization, optimization, and density control. Gaussian Splatting is an alternative for rendering realistic images while supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xingjun Wang , Lianlei Shan

Recent prominence in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled real-time rendering while maintaining high-fidelity novel view synthesis. However, 3DGS resorts to the Gaussian function that is low-pass by nature and is restricted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junyu Zhou , Yuyang Huang , Wenrui Dai , Junni Zou , Ziyang Zheng , Nuowen Kan , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong

Radiance fields have emerged as a predominant representation for modeling 3D scene appearance. Neural formulations such as Neural Radiance Fields provide high expressivity but require costly ray marching for rendering, whereas…

3D scene representations have gained immense popularity in recent years. Methods that use Neural Radiance fields are versatile for traditional tasks such as novel view synthesis. In recent times, some work has emerged that aims to extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shijie Zhou , Haoran Chang , Sicheng Jiang , Zhiwen Fan , Zehao Zhu , Dejia Xu , Pradyumna Chari , Suya You , Zhangyang Wang , Achuta Kadambi

Novel-view synthesis plays a crucial role in computer vision with applications in 3D reconstruction, mixed reality, and robotics. Recent approaches, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have emerged as state-of-the-art solutions, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ankit Dhiman , Tao Lu , R Srinath , Emre Arslan , Angela Xing , Yuanbo Xiangli , R Venkatesh Babu , Srinath Sridhar

Photographs captured in unstructured tourist environments frequently exhibit variable appearances and transient occlusions, challenging accurate scene reconstruction and inducing artifacts in novel view synthesis. Although prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jiacong Xu , Yiqun Mei , Vishal M. Patel

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has transformed novel-view synthesis with its fast, interpretable, and high-fidelity rendering. However, its resource requirements limit its usability. Especially on constrained devices, training performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick , Rahul Goel , Bernhard Kerbl , Francisco Vicente Carrasco , Markus Steinberger , Fernando De La Torre

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Radiance Field methods have recently revolutionized novel-view synthesis of scenes captured with multiple photos or videos. However, achieving high visual quality still requires neural networks that are costly to train and render, while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bernhard Kerbl , Georgios Kopanas , Thomas Leimkühler , George Drettakis

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 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 (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive Novel View Synthesis (NVS) results in a real-time rendering manner. During training, it relies heavily on the average magnitude of view-space positional gradients to grow Gaussians to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Qingshan Xu , Jiequan Cui , Xuanyu Yi , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Zhou , Yew-Soon Ong , Hanwang Zhang

This paper proposes a novel framework for large-scale scene reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and aims to address the scalability and accuracy challenges faced by existing methods. For tackling the scalability issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hanyue Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Xinhe Zuo , Yuxin Tong , Ying Long , Chen Liu

Efficient scene representations are essential for many real-world applications, especially those involving spatial measurement. Although current NeRF-based methods have achieved impressive results in reconstructing building-scale scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jianlin Guo , Haihong Xiao , Wenxiong Kang

While neural rendering has demonstrated impressive capabilities in 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis, it heavily relies on high-quality sharp images and accurate camera poses. Numerous approaches have been proposed to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Lingzhe Zhao , Peng Wang , Peidong Liu

Recently, the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) advancement has facilitated few-shot Novel View Synthesis (NVS), which is a significant challenge in 3D vision applications. Despite numerous attempts to reduce the dense input requirement in NeRF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Wangze Xu , Huachen Gao , Shihe Shen , Rui Peng , Jianbo Jiao , Ronggang Wang

It is desirable to create 3D object models and 3D maps from 2D input images for applications such as navigation, virtual tourism, and urban planning. The traditional methods of creating 3D maps, (such as photogrammetry), require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sai Tarun Sathyan , Thomas B. Kinsman