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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown a powerful capability for novel view synthesis due to its detailed expressive ability and highly efficient rendering speed. Unfortunately, creating relightable 3D assets and reconstructing faithful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Beibei Wang , Jian Yang

Geometric reconstruction of opaque surfaces from images is a longstanding challenge in computer vision, with renewed interest from volumetric view synthesis algorithms using radiance fields. We leverage the geometry field proposed in recent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Kaiwen Jiang , Venkataram Sivaram , Cheng Peng , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Visual SLAM has regained attention due to its ability to provide perceptual capabilities and simulation test data for Embodied AI. However, traditional SLAM methods struggle to meet the demands of high-quality scene reconstruction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fan Zhu , Yifan Zhao , Ziyu Chen , Biao Yu , Hui Zhu

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Scene reconstruction has emerged as a central challenge in computer vision, with approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting achieving remarkable progress. While Gaussian Splatting demonstrates strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alexander Valverde , Brian Xu , Yuyin Zhou , Meng Xu , Hongyun Wang

Reconstructing the high-fidelity surface from multi-view images, especially sparse images, is a critical and practical task that has attracted widespread attention in recent years. However, existing methods are impeded by the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Rui Peng , Shihe Shen , Kaiqiang Xiong , Huachen Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Xiaodong Gu , Ronggang Wang

Implicit surface representations such as the signed distance function (SDF) have emerged as a promising approach for image-based surface reconstruction. However, existing optimization methods assume solid surfaces and are therefore unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tianhao Wu , Hanxue Liang , Fangcheng Zhong , Gernot Riegler , Shimon Vainer , Jiankang Deng , Cengiz Oztireli

Road surface reconstruction is essential for autonomous driving, supporting centimeter-accurate lane perception and high-definition mapping in complex urban environments.While recent methods based on mesh rendering or 3D Gaussian splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xingyue Peng , Yuandong Lyu , Lang Zhang , Jian Zhu , Songtao Wang , Jiaxin Deng , Songxin Lu , Weiliang Ma , Dangen She , Peng Jia , XianPeng Lang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for accurately representing scenes. However, despite its superior novel view synthesis capabilities, extracting the geometry of the scene directly from the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yaniv Wolf , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

Recent advances in radiance field reconstruction, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have achieved high-quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering by representing scenes with compositions of Gaussian primitives. However, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jan Held , Renaud Vandeghen , Abdullah Hamdi , Adrien Deliege , Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Andrea Vedaldi , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In this work, we use multi-view aerial images to reconstruct the geometry, lighting, and material of facades using neural signed distance fields (SDFs). Without the requirement of complex equipment, our method only takes simple RGB images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zixuan Xie , Rengan Xie , Rong Li , Kai Huang , Pengju Qiao , Jingsen Zhu , Xu Yin , Qi Ye , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

Inverse rendering of glossy objects from RGB imagery remains fundamentally limited by inherent ambiguity. Although NeRF-based methods achieve high-fidelity reconstruction via dense-ray sampling, their computational cost is prohibitive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xingyuan Yang , Min Wei

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

In this paper we present a novel method for efficient and effective 3D surface reconstruction in open scenes. Existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based works typically require extensive training and rendering time due to the adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Gaochao Song , Chong Cheng , Hao Wang

Existing NeRF-based methods for large scene reconstruction often have limitations in visual quality and rendering speed. While the recent 3D Gaussian Splatting works well on small-scale and object-centric scenes, scaling it up to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jiaqi Lin , Zhihao Li , Xiao Tang , Jianzhuang Liu , Shiyong Liu , Jiayue Liu , Yangdi Lu , Xiaofei Wu , Songcen Xu , Youliang Yan , Wenming Yang

This paper presents an effective Gaussian management framework for high-fidelity scene reconstruction of appearance and geometry. Departing from recent Gaussian Splatting (GS) methods that rely on indiscriminate attribute assignment, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiateng Liu , Hao Gao , Jiu-Cheng Xie , Chi-Man Pun , Jian Xiong , Haolun Li , Junxin Chen , Feng Xu

While 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in photorealistic novel view synthesis, its pursuit of fast and high-fidelity 3D reconstruction has long been constrained by a trade-off between geometric accuracy and optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhenhua Du , Zhen Tan , Haoyu Zhang , Dewen Hu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Peidong Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

We present a framework that enables fast reconstruction and real-time rendering of urban-scale scenes while maintaining robustness against appearance variations across multi-view captures. Our approach begins with scene partitioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Zhensheng Yuan , Haozhi Huang , Zhen Xiong , Di Wang , Guanghua Yang

Recent advancements in multi-view 3D reconstruction and novel-view synthesis, particularly through Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have greatly enhanced the fidelity and efficiency of 3D content creation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jun Zhou , Dinghao Li , Nannan Li , Mingjie Wang