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3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an alternative representation that leverages a 3D Gaussian-based representation and introduces an approximated volumetric rendering, achieving very fast rendering speed and promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

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

Accurate geometric surface reconstruction, providing essential environmental information for navigation and manipulation tasks, is critical for enabling robotic self-exploration and interaction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Zhaoning Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Zongqian Zhan

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

Accurate meshing from monocular images remains a key challenge in 3D vision. While state-of-the-art 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods excel at synthesizing photorealistic novel views through rasterization-based rendering, their reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Zeyu Chen , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of common indoor scenes is crucial for VR and AR applications. 3D Gaussian splatting, a novel differentiable rendering technique, has achieved state-of-the-art novel view synthesis results with high rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Iaroslav Melekhov , Otto Seiskari , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

In the domain of 3D scene representation, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a pivotal technology. However, its application to large-scale, high-resolution scenes (exceeding 4k$\times$4k pixels) is hindered by the excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Wenkai Liu , Tao Guan , Bin Zhu , Lili Ju , Zikai Song , Dan Li , Yuesong Wang , Wei Yang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) revolutionized novel view rendering. Instead of inferring from dense spatial points, as implicit representations do, 3DGS uses sparse Gaussians. This enables real-time performance but increases space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Cem Eteke , Enzo Tartaglione

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have focused on accelerating optimization while preserving reconstruction quality. However, many proposed methods entangle implementation-level improvements with fundamental algorithmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Martin Eisemann , Marcus Magnor

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has begun incorporating rich information from 2D foundation models. However, most approaches rely on a bottom-up optimization process that treats raw 2D features as ground truth, incurring increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hyunjoon Lee , Joonkyu Min , Jaesik Park

In the context of novel view synthesis, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an efficient and competitive counterpart to Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), enabling high-fidelity photorealistic rendering in real time. Beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shuting He , Peilin Ji , Yitong Yang , Changshuo Wang , Jiayi Ji , Yinglin Wang , Henghui Ding

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its capability to generate high-fidelity rendering results. At the same time, most applications such as games, animation, and AR/VR use mesh-based representations to represent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Dinesh Manocha

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized real-time photorealistic view synthesis, its fundamental reliance on symmetric Gaussian distributions introduces visual artifacts that hinder accurate spatial data exploration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Gaochao Song , Ziran Yin , Hao Wang

Gaussian splatting, renowned for its exceptional rendering quality and efficiency, has emerged as a prominent technique in 3D scene representation. However, the substantial data volume of Gaussian splatting impedes its practical utility in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xiangrui Liu , Xinju Wu , Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li , Sam Kwong

Gaussian Splatting has become the method of choice for 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering of captured real scenes. However, fine appearance details need to be represented as a large number of small Gaussian primitives, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Panagiotis Papantonakis , Georgios Kopanas , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a mainstream solution for novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. By explicitly encoding a 3D scene using a collection of Gaussian kernels, 3DGS achieves high-quality rendering with superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lei Lan , Tianjia Shao , Zixuan Lu , Yu Zhang , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yin Yang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

A few recent works explored incorporating geometric priors to regularize the optimization of Gaussian splatting, further improving its performance. However, those early studies mainly focused on the use of low-order geometric priors (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yangming Li , Chaoyu Liu , Lihao Liu , Simon Masnou , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb