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Accurate geometric surface reconstruction, providing essential environmental information for navigation and manipulation tasks, is critical for enabling robotic self-exploration and interaction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Zhaoning Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Zongqian Zhan

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

Rendering novel view images in dynamic scenes is a crucial yet challenging task. Current methods mainly utilize NeRF-based methods to represent the static scene and an additional time-variant MLP to model scene deformations, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Diwen Wan , Ruijie Lu , Gang Zeng

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has proven to be highly effective in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality and real-time rendering. However, its potential for reconstructing detailed 3D shapes has not been fully explored. Existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Baowen Zhang , Chuan Fang , Rakesh Shrestha , Yixun Liang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

We present 3D Surface Splatting (3DSS), the first differentiable surface splatting renderer for physically-based inverse rendering from multi-view images. Our central insight is that the surface separation problem at the heart of surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma

3D scene reconstruction is fundamental for spatial intelligence applications such as AR, robotics, and digital twins. Traditional multi-view stereo struggles with sparse viewpoints or low-texture regions, while neural rendering approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiaqi Yao , Zhongmiao Yan , Jingyi Xu , Songpengcheng Xia , Yan Xiang , Ling Pei

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

Reconstructing transparent surfaces is essential for tasks such as robotic manipulation in labs, yet it poses a significant challenge for 3D reconstruction techniques like 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). These methods often encounter a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mingwei Li , Pu Pang , Hehe Fan , Hua Huang , Yi Yang

We present a Gaussian Splatting method for surface reconstruction using sparse input views. Previous methods relying on dense views struggle with extremely sparse Structure-from-Motion points for initialization. While learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jiang Wu , Rui Li , Yu Zhu , Rong Guo , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its capability to generate high-fidelity rendering results. At the same time, most applications such as games, animation, and AR/VR use mesh-based representations to represent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Dinesh Manocha

Three-dimensional reconstruction in scenes with extreme depth variations remains challenging due to inconsistent supervisory signals between near-field and far-field regions. Existing methods fail to simultaneously address inaccurate depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yu Deng , Baozhu Zhao , Junyan Su , Xiaohan Zhang , Qi Liu

Novel view synthesis (NVS) and surface reconstruction (SR) are essential tasks in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Despite recent progress, these tasks are often addressed independently, with GS-based rendering methods struggling under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qingyuan Zhou , Yuehu Gong , Weidong Yang , Jiaze Li , Yeqi Luo , Baixin Xu , Shuhao Li , Ben Fei , Ying He

Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic surgical scenes from endoscopic video is essential for robotic-assisted surgery. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise in achieving high-quality reconstructions with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jialei Chen , Xin Zhang , Mobarakol Islam , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Daniel S. Elson , Baoru Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) leverages densely distributed Gaussian primitives for high-quality scene representation and reconstruction. While existing 3DGS methods perform well in scenes with minor view variation, large view changes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chenhao Zhang , Yuanping Cao , Lei Zhang

Efficiently synthesizing novel views from sparse inputs while maintaining accuracy remains a critical challenge in 3D reconstruction. While advanced techniques like radiance fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting achieve rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Yu Lin , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

Recent advancements in neural rendering, particularly 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS), have shown promising results for jointly reconstructing fine appearance and geometry by leveraging 2D Gaussian surfels. However, current methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yunzhou Song , Heguang Lin , Jiahui Lei , Lingjie Liu , Kostas Daniilidis

Articulated object reconstruction from sparse-view images is an ill-posed problem that requires simultaneous inference of geometry and underlying articulation structure. Existing methods for articulated object reconstruction based on NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Inseo Lee , Yoonji Kim , Eugene Sohn , Jiwoong Lee , Jungmin You , Joonseok Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim

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

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations have demonstrated remarkable performance in novel view synthesis; further, material-lighting disentanglement on 3DGS warrants relighting capabilities and its adaptability to broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kai Ye , Chong Gao , Guanbin Li , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen

Recovering 3D information from scenes via multi-view stereo reconstruction (MVS) and novel view synthesis (NVS) is inherently challenging, particularly in scenarios involving sparse-view setups. The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shubhendu Jena , Shishir Reddy Vutukur , Adnane Boukhayma