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We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

Dynamic novel view synthesis (NVS) is essential for creating immersive experiences. Existing approaches have advanced dynamic NVS by introducing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with implicit deformation fields or indiscriminately assigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kaizhe Zhang , Yijie Zhou , Weizhan Zhang , Caixia Yan , Haipeng Du , yugui xie , Yu-Hui Wen , Yong-Jin Liu

Novel view synthesis (NVS) is increasingly relevant for edge robotics, where compact and incrementally updatable 3D scene models are needed for SLAM, navigation, and inspection under tight memory and latency budgets. Variational Bayesian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ivan Zaino , Matteo Risso , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Miguel de Prado , Toon Van de Maele , Alessio Burrello

Efficient three-dimensional reconstruction and real-time visualization are critical in surgical scenarios such as endoscopy. In recent years, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable performance in efficient 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Taoyu Wu , Yiyi Miao , Zhuoxiao Li , Haocheng Zhao , Kang Dang , Jionglong Su , Limin Yu , Haoang Li

Dynamic 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) effectively extends the high-speed rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to represent volumetric videos. However, the large number of Gaussians, substantial temporal redundancies, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hyeongmin Lee , Kyungjune Baek

3D Gaussian Splatting has revolutionized neural rendering with real-time performance. However, scaling this approach to large scenes using Level-of-Detail methods faces critical challenges: inefficient serial traversal consuming over 60\%…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yixian Wang , Haolin Yu , Jiadong Tang , Yu Gao , Xihan Wang , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang

We present MonoGS++, a novel fast and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that leverages 3D Gaussian representations and operates solely on RGB inputs. While previous 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS)-based methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Renwu Li , Wenjing Ke , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has gained popularity in novel-view scene synthesis. It addresses the challenges of lengthy training times and slow rendering speeds associated with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Through rapid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sharath Girish , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

We present the first application of 3D Gaussian Splatting in monocular SLAM, the most fundamental but the hardest setup for Visual SLAM. Our method, which runs live at 3fps, utilises Gaussians as the only 3D representation, unifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hidenobu Matsuki , Riku Murai , Paul H. J. Kelly , Andrew J. Davison

The dominant 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) acceleration methods fail to properly regulate the number of Gaussians during training, causing redundant computational time overhead. In this paper, we propose FastGS, a novel, simple, and general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shiwei Ren , Tianci Wen , Yongchun Fang , Biao Lu

Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) overcomes the limitations of optimization-based 3DGS by enabling fast and high-quality reconstruction without the need for per-scene optimization. However, existing feedforward approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anran Wu , Long Peng , Xin Di , Xueyuan Dai , Chen Wu , Yang Wang , Xueyang Fu , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time, high-resolution novel view synthesis. By representing scenes as a mixture of Gaussian primitives, 3DGS leverages GPU rasterization pipelines for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Peihao Wang , Yuehao Wang , Dilin Wang , Sreyas Mohan , Zhiwen Fan , Lemeng Wu , Ruisi Cai , Yu-Ying Yeh , Zhangyang Wang , Qiang Liu , Rakesh Ranjan

We present the first unified framework for rate-distortion-optimized compression and segmentation of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). While 3DGS has proven effective for both real-time rendering and semantic scene understanding, prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yu-Jen Tseng , Chia-Hao Kao , Jing-Zhong Chen , Alessandro Gnutti , Shao-Yuan Lo , Yen-Yu Lin , Wen-Hsiao Peng

Rendering large-scale, unbounded scenes on AR/VR-class devices is constrained by the computation, bandwidth, and storage cost of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). We propose a low-power, low-cost 3DGS hardware accelerator that renders full-HD…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Fang-Chi Chang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

We introduce an image upscaling technique tailored for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) on lightweight GPUs. Compared to 3DGS, it achieves significantly higher rendering speeds and reduces artifacts commonly observed in 3DGS reconstructions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Simon Niedermayr , Christoph Neuhauser Rüdiger Westermann

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient loop closure limits the quality of its geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Abstract representations of 3D scenes play a crucial role in computer vision, enabling a wide range of applications such as mapping, localization, surface reconstruction, and even advanced tasks like SLAM and rendering. Among these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chenggang Yang , Yuang Shi

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as it provides a compact dense map representation while enabling efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Erik Sandström , Keisuke Tateno , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald , Federico Tombari

3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructs scenes by starting from a sparse Structure-from-Motion initialization and refining under-reconstructed regions. This process is slow, as it requires multiple densification steps where Gaussians are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Björn Ommer