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Reconstructing a 3D scene from images is challenging due to the different ways light interacts with surfaces depending on the viewer's position and the surface's material. In classical computer graphics, materials can be classified as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Mateusz Nowak , Wojciech Jarosz , Peter Chin

We present GI-GS, a novel inverse rendering framework that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and deferred shading to achieve photo-realistic novel view synthesis and relighting. In inverse rendering, accurately modeling the shading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hongze Chen , Zehong Lin , Jun Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

We present Bidirectional Gaussian Primitives, an image-based novel view synthesis technique designed to represent and render 3D objects with surface and volumetric materials under dynamic illumination. Our approach integrates light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyuan Liu , Yu Guo , Xinyuan Li , Bernd Bickel , Ran Zhang

Reconstructing objects from posed images is a crucial and complex task in computer graphics and computer vision. While NeRF-based neural reconstruction methods have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they tend to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shuichang Lai , Letian Huang , Jie Guo , Kai Cheng , Bowen Pan , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiangjing Lyu , Chengfei Lv , Yanwen Guo

Transmissive scenes are ubiquitous in daily life, yet reconstructing and rendering them remains highly challenging due to the inherent entanglement between near-field reflections from the surrounding environment on the transmissive surface,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Liang , Xiao Zhang , Tianchao Li , Jack C. P. Cheng , Chi-Keung Tang

We propose a material-aware optimization framework for high-fidelity mesh reconstruction from multi-view images based on 3D Gaussian Splatting, referred to as GS-2M. Previous works handle these tasks separately and struggle to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dinh Minh Nguyen , Malte Avenhaus , Thomas Lindemeier

3D Gaussian Splatting shows great potential in reconstructing photo-realistic 3D scenes. However, these methods typically bake illumination into their representations, limiting their use for physically-based rendering and scene editing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zirui Wu , Jianteng Chen , Laijian Li , Shaoteng Wu , Zhikai Zhu , Kang Xu , Martin R. Oswald , Jie Song

In this work, we address specular appearance in inverse rendering using 2D Gaussian splatting with deferred shading and argue for a refinement stage to improve specular detail, thereby bridging the gap with reconstruction-only methods. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently revolutionized radiance field reconstruction, achieving high quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering speed without baking. However, 3DGS fails to accurately represent surfaces due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Binbin Huang , Zehao Yu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Shenghua Gao

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

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has made a notable advancement in the field of neural rendering, 3D scene reconstruction, and novel view synthesis. Nevertheless, 3D-GS encounters the main challenge when it comes to accurately representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Rui Zhang , Tianyue Luo , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei , Jingyi Xu , Qingyuan Zhou , Keyi Liu , Ying He

Reconstructing 3D assets from images, known as inverse rendering (IR), remains a challenging task due to its ill-posed nature. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities for novel view synthesis (NVS) tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hanxiao Sun , YuPeng Gao , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable progress in novel view synthesis. However, accurately reconstructing glossy surfaces under complex illumination remains challenging, particularly in scenes with strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ningjing Fan , Yiqun Wang

Image representation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recently, Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation framework, and its extension to 2D image representation enables lightweight, yet expressive modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Masaya Takabe , Hiroshi Watanabe , Sujun Hong , Tomohiro Ikai , Zheming Fan , Ryo Ishimoto , Kakeru Sugimoto , Ruri Imichi

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

We introduce a simple yet effective approach for separating transmitted and reflected light. Our key insight is that the powerful novel view synthesis capabilities provided by modern inverse rendering methods (e.g.,~3D Gaussian splatting)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mingyang Xie , Haoming Cai , Sachin Shah , Yiran Xu , Brandon Y. Feng , Jia-Bin Huang , Christopher A. Metzler

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Krzysztof Byrski , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Marcin Kądziołka , Dawid Baran , Przemysław Spurek

Efficient shape reconstruction for surfaces with complex reflectance properties is crucial for real-time virtual reality. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based methods offer fast novel view rendering by leveraging their explicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yufei Han , Bowen Tie , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Si Li , Boxin Shi , Yunpeng Jia , Zhanyu Ma