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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

During the Gaussian Splatting optimization process, the scene's geometry can gradually deteriorate if its structure is not deliberately preserved, especially in non-textured regions such as walls, ceilings, and furniture surfaces. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yanyan Li , Chenyu Lyu , Yan Di , Guangyao Zhai , Gim Hee Lee , Federico Tombari

High-fidelity three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is essential for robotics and simulation. While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieve impressive rendering quality, their reliance on time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiong Jinlin , Li Can , Shen Jiawei , Qi Zhigang , Sun Lei , Zhao Dongyang

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

Simultaneous localization and mapping is essential for position tracking and scene understanding. 3D Gaussian-based map representations enable photorealistic reconstruction and real-time rendering of scenes using multiple posed cameras. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lisong C. Sun , Neel P. Bhatt , Jonathan C. Liu , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang , Todd E. Humphreys , Ufuk Topcu

With their meaningful geometry and their omnipresence in the 3D world, edges are extremely useful primitives in computer vision. 3D edges comprise of lines and curves, and methods to reconstruct them use either multi-view images or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kunal Chelani , Assia Benbihi , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

3D Shape represented as point cloud has achieve advancements in multimodal pre-training to align image and language descriptions, which is curial to object identification, classification, and retrieval. However, the discrete representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Haoyuan Li , Yanpeng Zhou , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a prominent research direction owing to its ultrarapid training speed and high-fidelity rendering capabilities. However, the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Ren , Yu Liu , Ning An , Jian Cheng , Xin Qiao , He Kong

High-fidelity reconstruction of driving scenes is crucial for autonomous driving. While recent feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods enable fast reconstruction, their per-pixel Gaussian prediction paradigm often suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Cheng Chi , Xianqi Wang , Hongcheng Luo , Mingfei Tu , Gangwei Xu , Zehan Zhang , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Sida Peng , Xin Yang , Haiyang Sun

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for 3D scene representation, offering a reduction in computational overhead compared to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). However, 3DGS is susceptible to high-frequency artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Shen Chen , Jiale Zhou , Lei Li

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted great attention in novel view synthesis because of its superior rendering efficiency and high fidelity. However, the trained Gaussians suffer from severe zooming degradation due to non-adjustable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jiameng Li , Yue Shi , Jiezhang Cao , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Recent feed-forward networks have achieved remarkable progress in sparse-view 3D reconstruction by predicting dense point maps directly from RGB images. However, they often suffer from geometric inconsistencies and limited fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yutong Chen , Yiming Wang , Xucong Zhang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

In the rapidly evolving field of 3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) represent significant advancements. Although 2DGS compresses 3D Gaussian primitives into 2D Gaussian surfels to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhuoxiao Li , Shanliang Yao , Yijie Chu , Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez , Yong Yue , Eng Gee Lim , Xiaohui Zhu

We consider the problem of novel view synthesis from unposed images in a single feed-forward. Our framework capitalizes on fast speed, scalability, and high-quality 3D reconstruction and view synthesis capabilities of 3DGS, where we further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sunghwan Hong , Jaewoo Jung , Heeseong Shin , Jisang Han , Jiaolong Yang , Chong Luo , Seungryong Kim

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

Self-supervised learning of point cloud aims to leverage unlabeled 3D data to learn meaningful representations without reliance on manual annotations. However, current approaches face challenges such as limited data diversity and inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Keyi Liu , Yeqi Luo , Weidong Yang , Jingyi Xu , Zhijun Li , Wen-Ming Chen , Ben Fei

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao

Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse images remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of recovering accurate geometry and texture without optimization. Recent approaches leverage generalizable models to generate 3D scenes using 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bing He , Jingnan Gao , Yunuo Chen , Ning Cao , Gang Chen , Zhengxue Cheng , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time, high-resolution novel view synthesis. By representing scenes as a mixture of Gaussian primitives, 3DGS leverages GPU rasterization pipelines for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Peihao Wang , Yuehao Wang , Dilin Wang , Sreyas Mohan , Zhiwen Fan , Lemeng Wu , Ruisi Cai , Yu-Ying Yeh , Zhangyang Wang , Qiang Liu , Rakesh Ranjan