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Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a prominent research direction owing to its ultrarapid training speed and high-fidelity rendering capabilities. However, the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Ren , Yu Liu , Ning An , Jian Cheng , Xin Qiao , He Kong

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

Despite 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) excelling in most configurations, it lacks generalization across novel viewpoints in a few-shot scenario because it overfits to the sparse observations. We revisit 3DGS optimization from a machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youngsik Yun , Dongjun Gu , Youngjung Uh

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

The field of 3D reconstruction from images has rapidly evolved in the past few years, first with the introduction of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and more recently with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). The latter provides a significant edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Avinash Paliwal , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Dmytro Kotovenko , Rakesh Ranjan , Vikas Chandra , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction coupled with neural rendering techniques have greatly improved the creation of photo-realistic 3D scenes, influencing both academic research and industry applications. The technique of 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zexu Huang , Min Xu , Stuart Perry

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-fidelity rendering with fast real-time performance, but existing methods rely on offline training after full Structure-from-Motion (SfM) processing. In contrast, this work introduces Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwei Xu , Yifei Yu , Wentian Gan , Tengfei Wang , Zongqian Zhan , Hao Cheng , Xin Wang

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient training and fast novel view synthesis in static environments. To address challenges posed by transient objects, distractor-free 3DGS methods have emerged and shown promising results when dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Gu , Zhaorui Wang , Jiahang Cao , Jiaxu Wang , Mingle Zhao , Dongjun Ye , Renjing Xu

The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently brought about a revolution in the field of neural rendering, facilitating high-quality renderings at real-time speed. However, 3DGS heavily depends on the initialized point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Kai Cheng , Xiaoxiao Long , Kaizhi Yang , Yao Yao , Wei Yin , Yuexin Ma , Wenping Wang , Xuejin Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has transformed novel-view synthesis with its fast, interpretable, and high-fidelity rendering. However, its resource requirements limit its usability. Especially on constrained devices, training performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick , Rahul Goel , Bernhard Kerbl , Francisco Vicente Carrasco , Markus Steinberger , Fernando De La Torre

Recent works in volume rendering, \textit{e.g.} NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), significantly advance the rendering quality and efficiency with the help of the learned implicit neural radiance field or 3D Gaussians. Rendering on top…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xiaobiao Du , Yida Wang , Xin Yu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown remarkable performance in novel view synthesis. However, its rendering quality deteriorates with sparse inphut views, leading to distorted content and reduced details. This limitation hinders its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zongqi He , Zhe Xiao , Kin-Chung Chan , Yushen Zuo , Jun Xiao , Kin-Man Lam

Standard 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) relies on known or pre-computed camera poses and a sparse point cloud, obtained from structure-from-motion (SfM) preprocessing, to initialize and grow 3D Gaussians. We propose a novel SfM-Free 3DGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bo Ji , Angela Yao

Despite the photorealistic novel view synthesis (NVS) performance achieved by the original 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), its rendering quality significantly degrades with sparse input views. This performance drop is mainly caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zhenyu Bao , Guibiao Liao , Kaichen Zhou , Kanglin Liu , Qing Li , Guoping Qiu

Gaussian splatting (GS) along with its extensions and variants provides outstanding performance in real-time scene rendering while meeting reduced storage demands and computational efficiency. While the selection of 2D images capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Athanasios Bacharis , Saketh Madhuvarasu , Nikos Papanikolopoulos , Tara Javidi

Recent advances in text-guided image editing and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled high-quality 3D scene manipulation. However, existing pipelines rely on iterative edit-and-fit optimization at test time, alternating between 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Haitao Huang , Shin-Fang Chng , Huangying Zhan , Qingan Yan , Yi Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering with its efficiency and quality, but like many novel view synthesis methods, it heavily depends on accurate camera poses from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) systems. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhisheng Huang , Peng Wang , Jingdong Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) is a recent 3D scene reconstruction technique that enables real-time rendering of novel views by modeling scenes as parametric point clouds of differentiable 3D Gaussians. However, its rendering speed and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Geng Lin , Vasu Singla , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

Novel-view synthesis aims to generate novel views of a scene from multiple input images or videos, and recent advancements like 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) have achieved notable success in producing photorealistic renderings with efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xi Liu , Chaoyi Zhou , Siyu Huang