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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D scene reconstruction, which effectively balances rendering quality, efficiency, and speed. However, existing 3DGS approaches usually generate plausible outputs and face significant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Sicheng Yu , Zijian Wang , Hao Wang

Reconstructing translucent objects from multi-view images is a difficult problem. Previously, researchers have used differentiable path tracing and the neural implicit field, which require relatively large computational costs. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Youwen Yuan , Xi Zhao

We introduce a method for high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Our method uses a new point-based representation, the regularized dipole sum, which generalizes the winding number to allow for interpolation of per-point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hanyu Chen , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

Scene and object reconstruction is an important problem in robotics, in particular in planning collision-free trajectories or in object manipulation. This paper compares two strategies for the reconstruction of nonvisible parts of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Rafał Staszak , Piotr Michałek , Jakub Chudziński , Marek Kopicki , Dominik Belter

We propose a level set method to reconstruct unknown surfaces from point clouds, without assuming that the connections between points are known. We consider a variational formulation with a curvature constraint that minimizes the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Rao Fu , Kai Hormann , Pierre Alliez

We present a fully automatic approach for reconstructing compact 3D building models from large-scale airborne point clouds. A major challenge of urban reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds lies in that the vertical walls are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jin Huang , Jantien Stoter , Ravi Peters , Liangliang Nan

Sparse-view satellite image surface reconstruction remains highly challenging, fundamentally because the reliability of multi-view matching under satellite imaging conditions is strongly spatially heterogeneous. Affected by large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Min Chen , Wei Guo , Bin Wang , Wen Li , Tong Fang , Jinbo Zhang , Junqi Zhao , Hong Kuang , Han Hu , Xuming Ge , Qing Zhu , Bo Xu

In this paper, we propose a pipeline to generate 3D point cloud of an object from a single-view RGB image. Most previous work predict the 3D point coordinates from single RGB images directly. We decompose this problem into depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Wei Zeng , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction showcases advanced Image-to-3D content creation but requires substantial computational resources and large datasets, posing challenges to training models from scratch. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Xiufeng Huang , Ka Chun Cheung , Runmin Cong , Simon See , Renjie Wan

Reconstructing complex structures from planar cross-sections is a challenging problem, with wide-reaching applications in medical imaging, manufacturing, and topography. Out-of-the-box point cloud reconstruction methods can often fail due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Thomas Walker , Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Amir Vaxman , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

3D point clouds acquired by scanning real-world objects or scenes have found a wide range of applications including immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. They are often perturbed by noise or suffer from low density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Haolan Chen , Bi'an Du , Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves remarkable results in the field of surface reconstruction. However, when Gaussian normal vectors are aligned within the single-view projection plane, while the geometry appears reasonable in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Bo Jia , Yanan Guo , Ying Chang , Benkui Zhang , Ying Xie , Kangning Du , Lin Cao

Traditional 3D garment creation requires extensive manual operations, resulting in time and labor costs. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved breakthrough progress in 3D scene reconstruction and rendering, attracting widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhihao Tang , Shenghao Yang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao

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

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

This paper investigates an open research challenge of reconstructing high-quality, large 3D open scenes from images. It is observed existing methods have various limitations, such as requiring precise camera poses for input and dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chong Cheng , Gaochao Song , Yiyang Yao , Qinzheng Zhou , Gangjian Zhang , Hao Wang

Real-world 3D data may contain intricate details defined by salient surface gaps. Automated reconstruction of these open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is a challenging problem for environment synthesis in mixed reality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi