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3D surface reconstruction is essential across applications of virtual reality, robotics, and mobile scanning. However, RGB-based reconstruction often fails in low-texture, low-light, and low-albedo scenes. Handheld LiDARs, now common on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young , Siddharth Somasundaram , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar

In this study, we present an end-to-end pipeline capable of converting drone-captured video streams into high-fidelity 3D reconstructions with minimal latency. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively used in aerial real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Christos Maikos , Georgios Angelidis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for CT reconstruction. However, existing methods rely on the average gradient magnitude of points within the view, often leading to severe needle-like artifacts under…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yikuang Yuluo , Yue Ma , Kuan Shen , Tongtong Jin , Wang Liao , Yangpu Ma , Fuquan Wang

Accurate reconstruction of reflective surfaces remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with broad applications in real-time virtual reality and digital content creation. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yufei Han , Chu Zhou , Youwei Lyu , Qi Chen , Si Li , Boxin Shi , Yunpeng Jia , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma

Over the past year, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has received significant attention for its ability to represent 3D scenes in a perceptually accurate manner. However, it can require a substantial amount of storage since each splat's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Brent Zoomers , Maarten Wijnants , Ivan Molenaers , Joni Vanherck , Jeroen Put , Lode Jorissen , Nick Michiels

Sparse-view novel view synthesis is fundamentally ill-posed due to severe geometric ambiguity. Current methods are caught in a trade-off: regressive models are geometrically faithful but incomplete, whereas generative models can complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Atakan Topaloglu , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , A. Murat Tekalp , Federico Tombari

3D scene reconstruction under unposed sparse viewpoints is a highly challenging yet practically important problem, especially in outdoor scenes due to complex lighting and scale variation. With extremely limited input views, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Guanzhi Ding , Yu Hu , Hao Wang

Existing feedforward image-to-3D methods mainly rely on 2D multi-view diffusion models that cannot guarantee 3D consistency. These methods easily collapse when changing the prompt view direction and mainly handle object-centric cases. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuanhao Cai , He Zhang , Kai Zhang , Yixun Liang , Mengwei Ren , Fujun Luan , Qing Liu , Soo Ye Kim , Jianming Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Zhe Lin , Alan Yuille

3D Gaussian splatting (GS) has emerged as a transformative technique in radiance fields. Unlike mainstream implicit neural models, 3D GS uses millions of learnable 3D Gaussians for an explicit scene representation. Paired with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guikun Chen , Wenguan Wang

Despite recent successes in novel view synthesis using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), modeling scenes with sparse inputs remains a challenge. In this work, we address two critical yet overlooked issues in real-world sparse-input modeling:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yingji Zhong , Zhihao Li , Dave Zhenyu Chen , Lanqing Hong , Dan Xu

Neural scene representations, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have enabled high-quality neural rendering; however, their large storage and transmission costs hinder deployment in resource-constrained environments. Existing compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaqi Chen , Xinhao Ji , Yuanyuan Gao , Hao Li , Yuning Gong , Yifei Liu , Dan Xu , Zhihang Zhong , Dingwen Zhang , Xiao Sun

3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved impressive performance in novel view synthesis with real-time rendering capabilities. However, reconstructing high-quality surfaces with fine details using 3D Gaussians remains a challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiepeng Wang , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Junhui Hou , Xin Li , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction from sparse, low-resolution (LR) images is a crucial capability for real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and embodied AI. However, existing methods often fail to recover fine texture details.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinyuan Hu , Changyue Shi , Chuxiao Yang , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Tao Wei , Chen Wei , Zhou Yu , Min Tan

Novel view synthesis under sparse views has been a long-term important challenge in 3D reconstruction. Existing works mainly rely on introducing external semantic or depth priors to supervise the optimization of 3D representations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Qisen Wang , Yifan Zhao , Jiawei Ma , Jia Li

High-resolution remote sensing images (RSIs) are crucial for Earth observation applications, yet acquiring them is often limited by sensor constraints and costs. In recent years, generative super-resolution (SR) methods, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiangwei Mo , Xi Lu , Hanlin Wu

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have substantially improved novel view synthesis, enabling high-quality reconstruction and real-time rendering. However, blurring artifacts, such as floating primitives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Haodong Chen , Runnan Chen , Qiang Qu , Zhaoqing Wang , Tongliang Liu , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has proven to be highly effective in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality and real-time rendering. However, its potential for reconstructing detailed 3D shapes has not been fully explored. Existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Baowen Zhang , Chuan Fang , Rakesh Shrestha , Yixun Liang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

Recently, Gaussian Splatting (GS) has received a lot of attention in surface reconstruction. However, while 3D objects can be of complex and diverse shapes in the real world, existing GS-based methods only limitedly use a single type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Haoxuan Qu , Yujun Cai , Hossein Rahmani , Ajay Kumar , Junsong Yuan , Jun Liu