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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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) is a recent 3D scene reconstruction technique that enables real-time rendering of novel views by modeling scenes as parametric point clouds of differentiable 3D Gaussians. However, its rendering speed and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Geng Lin , Vasu Singla , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

Complete reconstruction of surgical scenes is crucial for robot-assisted surgery (RAS). Deep depth estimation is promising but existing works struggle with depth discontinuities, resulting in noisy predictions at object boundaries and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xu Wang , Shuai Zhang , Baoru Huang , Danail Stoyanov , Evangelos B. Mazomenos

Gaussian splatting has recently gained traction as a compelling map representation for SLAM systems, enabling dense and photo-realistic scene modeling. However, its application to monocular SLAM remains challenging due to the lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dong-Uk Seo , Jinwoo Jeon , Eungchang Mason Lee , Hyun Myung

Inferring the posterior distribution in SLAM is critical for evaluating the uncertainty in localization and mapping, as well as supporting subsequent planning tasks aiming to reduce uncertainty for safe navigation. However, real-time full…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Qiangqiang Huang , John J. Leonard

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated excellent ability in small-scale 3D surface reconstruction. However, extending 3DGS to large-scale scenes remains a significant challenge. To address this gap, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 YuanZheng Wu , Jin Liu , Shunping Ji

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

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

SLAM is a fundamental component of modern autonomous systems, providing robots and their operators with a deeper understanding of their environment. SLAM systems often encounter challenges due to the dynamic nature of robotic motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

We present MonoGS++, a novel fast and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that leverages 3D Gaussian representations and operates solely on RGB inputs. While previous 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS)-based methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Renwu Li , Wenjing Ke , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

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

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

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

We present GSLoc: a new visual localization method that performs dense camera alignment using 3D Gaussian Splatting as a map representation of the scene. GSLoc backpropagates pose gradients over the rendering pipeline to align the rendered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kazii Botashev , Vladislav Pyatov , Gonzalo Ferrer , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques play a key role towards long-term autonomy of mobile robots due to the ability to correct localization errors and produce consistent maps of an environment over time. Contrarily to…

Efficient three-dimensional reconstruction and real-time visualization are critical in surgical scenarios such as endoscopy. In recent years, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable performance in efficient 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Taoyu Wu , Yiyi Miao , Zhuoxiao Li , Haocheng Zhao , Kang Dang , Jionglong Su , Limin Yu , Haoang Li

Digitizing 3D static scenes and 4D dynamic events from multi-view images has long been a challenge in computer vision and graphics. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a practical and scalable reconstruction method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Marko Mihajlovic , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang , Robert Maier , Federica Bogo , Tony Tung , Edmond Boyer

High-quality novel view synthesis for large-scale scenes presents a challenging dilemma in 3D computer vision. Existing methods typically partition large scenes into multiple regions, reconstruct a 3D representation using Gaussian splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiaohan Zhang , Sitong Wang , Yushen Yan , Yi Yang , Mingda Xu , Qi Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting represents a breakthrough in the field of novel view synthesis. It establishes Gaussians as core rendering primitives for highly accurate real-world environment reconstruction. Recent advances have drastically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jonathan Haberl , Philipp Fleck , Clemens Arth

This work presents a novel dense RGB-D SLAM approach for dynamic planar environments that enables simultaneous multi-object tracking, camera localisation and background reconstruction. Previous dynamic SLAM methods either rely on semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Tianwei Zhang , Vladimir Ivan , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar