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We present a novel approach for photorealistic robot simulation that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting as a drop-in renderer within vectorized physics simulators such as IsaacGym. This enables unprecedented speed -- exceeding 100,000 steps…

The recently developed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown encouraging and impressive results for visual SLAM. However, most representative methods require RGBD sensors and are only available for indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zhe Xin , Chenyang Wu , Penghui Huang , Yanyong Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

We introduce GaussianZoom, a generative zoom-in 3D reconstruction system with an iterative progressive framework that combines geometry-consistent scene modeling and multi-scale semantic reasoning to enable high-fidelity extreme zoom-in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiale Shi , Jiarui Hu , Zesong Yang , Kaixuan Luan , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a novel scene representation approach. However, existing vision-only 3D-GS methods often rely on hand-crafted heuristics for point-cloud densification and face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sheng Hong , Chunran Zheng , Yishu Shen , Changze Li , Fu Zhang , Tong Qin , Shaojie Shen

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

This letter introduces a novel framework for dense Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) based on Gaussian Splatting. Recently, SLAM based on Gaussian Splatting has shown promising results. However, in monocular scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Pengcheng Zhu , Yaoming Zhuang , Baoquan Chen , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Zhanlin Liu

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

3D Gaussian splatting enables high-quality novel view synthesis (NVS) at real-time frame rates. However, its quality drops sharply as we depart from the training views. Thus, dense captures are needed to match the high-quality expectations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tobias Fischer , Samuel Rota Bulò , Yung-Hsu Yang , Nikhil Keetha , Lorenzo Porzi , Norman Müller , Katja Schwarz , Jonathon Luiten , Marc Pollefeys , Peter Kontschieder

Novel view synthesis (NVS) of static and dynamic urban scenes is essential for autonomous driving simulation, yet existing methods often struggle to balance reconstruction time with quality. While state-of-the-art neural radiance fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Sheng Miao , Sijin Li , Pan Wang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Yue Wang , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao

We present VIGS-SLAM, a visual-inertial 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that achieves robust real-time tracking and high-fidelity reconstruction. Although recent 3DGS-based SLAM methods achieve dense and photorealistic mapping, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zihan Zhu , Wei Zhang , Moyang Li , Norbert Haala , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

We introduce HyperGS, a novel framework for Hyperspectral Novel View Synthesis (HNVS), based on a new latent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) technique. Our approach enables simultaneous spatial and spectral renderings by encoding material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Chao Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a 3D representation method with photorealistic real-time rendering capabilities, is regarded as an effective tool for narrowing the sim-to-real gap. However, it lacks fine-grained semantics and physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bingchen Miao , Rong Wei , Zhiqi Ge , Xiaoquan sun , Shiqi Gao , Jingzhe Zhu , Renhan Wang , Siliang Tang , Jun Xiao , Rui Tang , Juncheng Li

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously achieve geometric accuracy, coherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xuan Yu , Yuxuan Xie , Changjian Jiang , Shichao Zhai , Rong Xiong , Yu Zhang , Yue Wang

This study addresses the challenge of online 3D model generation for neural rendering using an RGB image stream. Previous research has tackled this issue by incorporating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Byeonggwon Lee , Junkyu Park , Khang Truong Giang , Sungho Jo , Soohwan Song

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) achieves efficient rendering for novel view synthesis, extending it to dynamic scenes still results in substantial memory overhead from replicating Gaussians across frames. To address this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chun-Tin Wu , Jun-Cheng Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods are all constrained to small-room scenarios and struggle with memory explosion in large-scale scenes and long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Junjie He , Yue Pan , Shenghai Yuan , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

Most existing Dynamic Gaussian Splatting methods for complex dynamic urban scenarios rely on accurate object-level supervision from expensive manual labeling, limiting their scalability in real-world applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Su Sun , Cheng Zhao , Zhuoyang Sun , Yingjie Victor Chen , Mei Chen

In embodied vision, Instance ImageGoal Navigation (IIN) requires an agent to locate a specific object depicted in a goal image within an unexplored environment. The primary challenge of IIN arises from the need to recognize the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xiaohan Lei , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Underwater sonar imaging plays a crucial role in various applications, including autonomous navigation in murky water, marine archaeology, and environmental monitoring. However, the unique characteristics of sonar images, such as complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shida Xu , Jingqi Jiang , Jonatan Scharff Willners , Sen Wang

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang