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We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

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

Recent advances in radiance fields and novel view synthesis enable creation of realistic digital twins from photographs. However, current methods struggle with flat, texture-less surfaces, creating uneven and semi-transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maria Taktasheva , Lily Goli , Alessandro Fiorini , Zhen Li , Daniel Rebain , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Reconstructing objects from posed images is a crucial and complex task in computer graphics and computer vision. While NeRF-based neural reconstruction methods have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they tend to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shuichang Lai , Letian Huang , Jie Guo , Kai Cheng , Bowen Pan , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiangjing Lyu , Chengfei Lv , Yanwen Guo

Rendering 3D surfaces has been revolutionized within the modeling of radiance fields through either 3DGS or NeRF. Although 3DGS has shown advantages over NeRF in terms of rendering quality or speed, there is still room for improvement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Takeshi Noda , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

Accurate meshing from monocular images remains a key challenge in 3D vision. While state-of-the-art 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods excel at synthesizing photorealistic novel views through rasterization-based rendering, their reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Zeyu Chen , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Gaussian Splatting (GS) enables immersive rendering, but realistic 3D object-scene composition remains challenging. Baked appearance and shadow information in GS radiance fields cause inconsistencies when combining objects and scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jian Gao , Mengqi Yuan , Yifei Zeng , Chang Zeng , Zhihao Li , Zhenyu Chen , Weichao Qiu , Xiao-Xiao Long , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Yao Yao

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has achieved impressive rendering performance in novel view synthesis. However, its efficacy diminishes considerably in sparse image sequences, where inherent data sparsity amplifies geometric uncertainty during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhen Tan , Xieyuanli Chen , Jinpu Zhang , Lei Feng , Dewen Hu

Reconstructing deformable endoscopic tissues is crucial for achieving robot-assisted surgery. However, 3D Gaussian Splatting-based approaches encounter challenges in achieving consistent tissue surface reconstruction, while existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yangsen Chen , Hao Wang

3D scene reconstruction is a foundational problem in computer vision. Despite recent advancements in Neural Implicit Representations (NIR), existing methods often lack editability and compositional flexibility, limiting their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Liu Liu , Xinjie Wang , Jiaxiong Qiu , Tianwei Lin , Xiaolin Zhou , Zhizhong Su

3D reconstruction and relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced high-quality novel view synthesis at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Arjun Majumdar , Andreas Engelhardt , Raphael Braun , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

We develop a method that recovers the surface, materials, and illumination of a scene from its posed multi-view images. In contrast to prior work, it does not require any additional data and can handle glossy objects or bright lighting. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yue Fan , Ningjing Fan , Ivan Skorokhodov , Oleg Voynov , Savva Ignatyev , Evgeny Burnaev , Peter Wonka , Yiqun Wang

In this paper, we present a self-calibrating framework that jointly optimizes camera parameters, lens distortion and 3D Gaussian representations, enabling accurate and efficient scene reconstruction. In particular, our technique enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Youming Deng , Wenqi Xian , Guandao Yang , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Steve Marschner , Paul Debevec

While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains a challenge. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offer powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Minje Kim , Younghyun Noh , Jaesoon Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Recent learning-based Multi-View Stereo models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in sparse-view 3D reconstruction. However, directly applying 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as a refinement step following these models presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yongsung Kim , Minjun Park , Jooyoung Choi , Sungroh Yoon

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated exceptional performance in image-based 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, regions with complex textures require numerous Gaussians to capture significant color variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Binxiao Huang , Zhihao Li , Shiyong Liu , Xiao Tang , Jiajun Tang , Jiaqi Lin , Yuxin Cheng , Zhenyu Chen , Xiaofei Wu , Ngai Wong