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Traditional 3D content representations include dense point clouds that consume large amounts of data and hence network bandwidth, while newer representations such as neural radiance fields suffer from poor frame rates due to their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yi-Zhen Tsai , Xuechen Zhang , Zheng Li , Jiasi Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a recent approach for scene rendering. Although primarily designed for view synthesis, its potential for scene understanding tasks remains underexplored. In this work, we conduct a comparative evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Julia Farganus , Krzysztof Żurawicki , Arkadiusz Gaweł , Weronika Jakubowska , Halina Kwaśnicka

Recently, Gaussian Splatting (GS) has shown great potential for urban scene reconstruction in the field of autonomous driving. However, current urban scene reconstruction methods often depend on multimodal sensors as inputs, \textit{i.e.}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kejing Xia , Jidong Jia , Ke Jin , Yucai Bai , Li Sun , Dacheng Tao , Youjian Zhang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology has recently achieved photorealistic mapping capabilities thanks to the real-time, high-fidelity rendering enabled by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, due to the static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

This paper proposes a 3D LiDAR SLAM algorithm named Ground-SLAM, which exploits grounds in structured multi-floor environments to compress the pose drift mainly caused by LiDAR measurement bias. Ground-SLAM is developed based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xin Wei , Jixin Lv , Jie Sun , Shiliang Pu

Depth maps are widely used in feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) pipelines by unprojecting them into 3D point clouds for novel view synthesis. This approach offers advantages such as efficient training, the use of known camera poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Duochao Shi , Weijie Wang , Donny Y. Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Jia-Wang Bian , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a novel scene representation approach. However, existing vision-only 3D-GS methods often rely on hand-crafted heuristics for point-cloud densification and face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sheng Hong , Chunran Zheng , Yishu Shen , Changze Li , Fu Zhang , Tong Qin , Shaojie Shen

The rise of Extended Reality (XR) requires efficient streaming of 3D online worlds, challenging current 3DGS representations to adapt to bandwidth-constrained environments. This paper proposes LapisGS, a layered 3DGS that supports adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuang Shi , Géraldine Morin , Simone Gasparini , Wei Tsang Ooi

Achieving robust and precise pose estimation in dynamic scenes is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent advancements integrating Gaussian Splatting into SLAM systems have proven…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yueming Xu , Haochen Jiang , Zhongyang Xiao , Jianfeng Feng , Li Zhang

Handling the dynamic environments is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent research combines 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with SLAM to achieve both robust camera pose estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

We aim to address sparse-view reconstruction of a 3D scene by leveraging priors from large-scale vision models. While recent advancements such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated remarkable successes in 3D reconstruction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hanyang Yu , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

Accurate and robust LiDAR 3D object detection is essential for comprehensive scene understanding in autonomous driving. Despite its importance, LiDAR detection performance is limited by inherent constraints of point cloud data, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Rui Yu , Runkai Zhao , Cong Nie , Heng Wang , HuaiCheng Yan , Meng Wang

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a novel explicit representation for 3D scenes, offering both high-fidelity reconstruction and efficient rendering. However, 3DGS lacks 3D segmentation ability, which limits its applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yupeng Zhang , Dezhi Zheng , Ping Lu , Han Zhang , Lei Wang , Liping xiang , Cheng Luo , Kaijun Deng , Xiaowen Fu , Linlin Shen , Jinbao Wang

This paper presents a 3D lidar SLAM system based on improved regionalized Gaussian process (GP) map reconstruction to provide both low-drift state estimation and mapping in real-time for robotics applications. We utilize spatial GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yinqiang Wang , Zhou Fang

Traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems often face limitations including coarse rendering quality, insufficient recovery of scene details, and poor robustness in dynamic environments. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Li Wang , Ruixuan Gong , Yumo Han , Lei Yang , Lu Yang , Ying Li , Bin Xu , Huaping Liu , Rong Fu

We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently brought about a revolution in the field of neural rendering, facilitating high-quality renderings at real-time speed. However, 3DGS heavily depends on the initialized point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Kai Cheng , Xiaoxiao Long , Kaizhi Yang , Yao Yao , Wei Yin , Yuexin Ma , Wenping Wang , Xuejin Chen

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) deliver striking photorealism, and extending it to large scenes opens new opportunities for semantic reasoning and prediction in applications such as autonomous driving. Today's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shengkai Zhang , Yuhe Liu , Jianhua He , Xuedou Xiao , Mozi Chen , Kezhong Liu

Most 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) based methods for urban scenes initialize 3D Gaussians directly with 3D LiDAR points, which not only underutilizes LiDAR data capabilities but also overlooks the potential advantages of fusing LiDAR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Cheng Zhao , Su Sun , Ruoyu Wang , Yuliang Guo , Jun-Jun Wan , Zhou Huang , Xinyu Huang , Yingjie Victor Chen , Liu Ren