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This paper proposes Sparse View Synthesis. This is a view synthesis problem where the number of reference views is limited, and the baseline between target and reference view is significant. Under these conditions, current radiance field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Violeta Menéndez González , Andrew Gilbert , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield

We introduce MVSplat360, a feed-forward approach for 360{\deg} novel view synthesis (NVS) of diverse real-world scenes, using only sparse observations. This setting is inherently ill-posed due to minimal overlap among input views and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Yuedong Chen , Chuanxia Zheng , Haofei Xu , Bohan Zhuang , Andrea Vedaldi , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

Large image diffusion models enable novel view synthesis with high quality and excellent zero-shot capability. However, such models based on image-to-image translation have no guarantee of view consistency, limiting the performance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haohan Weng , Tianyu Yang , Jianan Wang , Yu Li , Tong Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen , Lei Zhang

This paper presents a new method to synthesize an image from arbitrary views and times given a collection of images of a dynamic scene. A key challenge for the novel view synthesis arises from dynamic scene reconstruction where epipolar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Jae Shin Yoon , Kihwan Kim , Orazio Gallo , Hyun Soo Park , Jan Kautz

High dynamic range (HDR) novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to create photorealistic images from novel viewpoints using HDR imaging techniques. The rendered HDR images capture a wider range of brightness levels containing more details of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Cai , Zihao Xiao , Yixun Liang , Minghan Qin , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Yaoyao Liu , Alan Yuille

Given just a few glimpses of a scene, can you imagine the movie playing out as the camera glides through it? That's the lens we take on \emph{sparse-input novel view synthesis}, not only as filling spatial gaps between widely spaced views,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yan Xu , Yixing Wang , Stella X. Yu

Recently, there is a rising interest in perceiving image aesthetics. The existing works deal with image aesthetics as a classification or regression problem. To extend the cognition from rating to reasoning, a deeper understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Wenshan Wang , Su Yang , Weishan Zhang , Jiulong Zhang

In this paper the argument is made that for true novel view synthesis of objects, where the object can be synthesized from any viewpoint, an explicit 3D shape representation isdesired. Our method estimates point clouds to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Hoang-An Le , Thomas Mensink , Partha Das , Theo Gevers

We propose XScale-NVS for high-fidelity cross-scale novel view synthesis of real-world large-scale scenes. Existing representations based on explicit surface suffer from discretization resolution or UV distortion, while implicit volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Guangyu Wang , Jinzhi Zhang , Fan Wang , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

Despite recent advances in sparse novel view synthesis (NVS) applied to object-centric scenes, scene-level NVS remains a challenge. A central issue is the lack of available clean multi-view training data, beyond manually curated datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Morris Alper , David Novotny , Filippos Kokkinos , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Tom Monnier

Novel view synthesis (NVS) through non-planar refractive surfaces presents fundamental challenges due to severe, spatially varying optical distortions. While recent representations like NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) excel at NVS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiming Shao , Qiyu Dai , Chong Gao , Guanbin Li , Yeqiang Wang , He Sun , Qiong Zeng , Baoquan Chen , Wenzheng Chen

Diffusion-based approaches have recently demonstrated strong performance for single-image novel view synthesis by conditioning generative models on geometry inferred from monocular depth estimation. However, in practice, the quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Amirhosein Javadi , Chi-Shiang Gau , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Tara Javidi

There has recently been great interest in neural rendering methods. Some approaches use 3D geometry reconstructed with Multi-View Stereo (MVS) but cannot recover from the errors of this process, while others directly learn a volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Georgios Kopanas , Julien Philip , Thomas Leimkühler , George Drettakis

A commonly used evaluation metric for text-to-image synthesis is the Inception score (IS) \cite{inceptionscore}, which has been shown to be a quality metric that correlates well with human judgment. However, IS does not reveal properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 William Lund Sommer , Alexandros Iosifidis

Existing view synthesis methods mainly focus on the perspective images and have shown promising results. However, due to the limited field-of-view of the pinhole camera, the performance quickly degrades when large camera movements are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiale Xu , Jia Zheng , Yanyu Xu , Rui Tang , Shenghua Gao

Taking an image of an object is at its core a lossy process. The rich information about the three-dimensional structure of the world is flattened to an image plane and decisions such as viewpoint and camera parameters are final and not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Konstantinos Rematas , Chuong Nguyen , Tobias Ritschel , Mario Fritz , Tinne Tuytelaars

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as a powerful tool for fast and accurate novel-view synthesis from a set of posed input images. However, like most novel-view synthesis approaches, it relies on accurate camera pose information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Christian Schmidt , Jens Piekenbrinck , Bastian Leibe

Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Recent neural rendering and reconstruction techniques, such as NeRFs or Gaussian Splatting, have shown remarkable novel view synthesis capabilities but require hundreds of images of the scene from diverse viewpoints to render high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Felix Tristram , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Current point-based approaches encounter limitations in scalability and rendering quality when using large 3D point cloud maps because using them directly for novel view synthesis (NVS) leads to degraded visualizations. We identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mohammad Altillawi , Fengyi Shen , Liudi Yang , Sai Manoj Prakhya , Ziyuan Liu