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High-fidelity 3D video reconstruction is essential for enabling real-time rendering of dynamic scenes with realistic motion in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). The deformation field paradigm of 3D Gaussian splatting has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Zhenyang Li , Xiaoyang Bai , Tongchen Zhang , Pengfei Shen , Weiwei Xu , Yifan Peng

Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a leading method for novel view synthesis, offering superior training efficiency and real-time inference compared to NeRF approaches, while still delivering high-quality reconstructions. Beyond view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lorenzo Rutayisire , Nicola Capodieci , Fabio Pellacini

Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improving surgeon guidance, and enabling automation. Recent methods achieve dense reconstructions from da Vinci robotic surgery videos, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tianyi Song , Danail Stoyanov , Evangelos Mazomenos , Francisco Vasconcelos

3D modeling of highly reflective objects remains challenging due to strong view-dependent appearances. While previous SDF-based methods can recover high-quality meshes, they are often time-consuming and tend to produce over-smoothed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jinguang Tong , Xuesong li , Fahira Afzal Maken , Sundaram Muthu , Lars Petersson , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li

3D object generation from a single image involves estimating the full 3D geometry and texture of unseen views from an unposed RGB image captured in the wild. Accurately reconstructing an object's complete 3D structure and texture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hritam Basak , Hadi Tabatabaee , Shreekant Gayaka , Ming-Feng Li , Xin Yang , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Min Sun , Zhaozheng Yin

Recently, 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has demonstrated superior geometry reconstruction quality than the popular 3DGS by using 2D surfels to approximate thin surfaces. However, it falls short when dealing with glossy surfaces, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yixin Yang , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

Novel view synthesis has demonstrated impressive progress recently, with 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) offering efficient training time and photorealistic real-time rendering. However, reliance on Cartesian coordinates limits 3DGS's…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xinpeng Liu , Zeyi Huang , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Fast and efficient 3D reconstruction is essential for time-critical robotic applications such as tele-guidance and disaster response, where operators must rapidly analyze specific points of interest (POIs). Existing semantic Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hannah Schieber , Dominik Frischmann , Victor Schaack , Simon Boche , Angela Schoellig , Stefan Leutenegger , Daniel Roth

Recent advances in novel view synthesis have enabled real-time rendering speeds with high reconstruction accuracy. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS), a foundational point-based parametric 3D scene representation, models scenes as large sets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Vasu Singla , Mayuka Jayawardhana , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

In this paper, we present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shenxing Wei , Jinxi Li , Yafei Yang , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

Rasterization based methods have recently enabled high-quality novel view synthesis at real-time rates, but their underlying volumetric primitives do not expose a direct, globally consistent surface representation, leaving sur face…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinkai Cui , Kaiwen Song , Chumeng Niu , Juyong Zhang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing high-fidelity novel views. Nonetheless, its effectiveness critically depends on the quality of the initialized point cloud. Specifically, achieving uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yikang Zhang , Rui Fan

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

This paper presents a multi stage 3D shape reconstruction system of multiple object scenes by considering the silhouette inconsistencies in shape-from silhouette SFS method. These inconsistencies are common in multiple view images due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Waqqas-ur-Rehman Butt , Martin Servin

Underwater image degradation poses significant challenges for 3D reconstruction, where simplified physical models often fail in complex scenes. We propose \textbf{R-Splatting}, a unified framework that bridges underwater image restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Guoxi Huang , Haoran Wang , Zipeng Qi , Wenjun Lu , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Recent developments in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have significantly propelled the capabilities of photo-realistic 3D scene rendering across various academic and industrial fields. The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique, alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zexu Huang , Min Xu , Stuart Perry

Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensing camera is able to obtain depth maps at a high frame rate. However, its low resolution and sensitivity to the noise are always a concern. A popular solution is upsampling the obtained noisy low resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Wei Liu , Yijun Li , Xiaogang Chen , Jie Yang , Qiang Wu , Jingyi Yu

Object-level 3D reconstruction play important roles across domains such as cultural heritage digitization, industrial manufacturing, and virtual reality. However, existing Gaussian Splatting-based approaches generally rely on full-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuai Guo , Ao Guo , Junchao Zhao , Qi Chen , Yuxiang Qi , Zechuan Li , Dong Chen , Tianjia Shao , Mingliang Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently advanced radiance field reconstruction by offering superior capabilities for novel view synthesis and real-time rendering speed. However, its strategy of blending optimization and adaptive density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Rong Liu , Rui Xu , Yue Hu , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng

This paper presents a novel post-processing methodology for extracting high-quality geometries from density-based topology optimization results. Current post-processing approaches often struggle to simultaneously achieve smooth boundaries,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ondřej Ježek , Ján Kopačka , Martin Isoz , Dušan Gabriel , Pavel Maršálek , Martin Šotola , Radim Halama