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Radiance field methods, such as Neural Radiance Field or 3D Gaussian Splatting, have emerged as seminal 3D representations for synthesizing realistic novel views. For practical applications, there is ongoing research on flexible scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ji Hyun Seo , Byounhyun Yoo , Gerard Jounghyun Kim

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity for efficient scene rendering by representing scenes as explicit sets of anisotropic 3D Gaussians. However, most existing work focuses primarily on modeling external surfaces. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Shuxin Liang , Yihan Xiao , Wenlu Tang

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable progress in novel view synthesis. However, accurately reconstructing glossy surfaces under complex illumination remains challenging, particularly in scenes with strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ningjing Fan , Yiqun Wang

This paper presents Planar Gaussian Splatting (PGS), a novel neural rendering approach to learn the 3D geometry and parse the 3D planes of a scene, directly from multiple RGB images. The PGS leverages Gaussian primitives to model the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Farhad G. Zanjani , Hong Cai , Hanno Ackermann , Leila Mirvakhabova , Fatih Porikli

This paper presents a 3D Gaussian Inverse Rendering (GIR) method, employing 3D Gaussian representations to effectively factorize the scene into material properties, light, and geometry. The key contributions lie in three-fold. We compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yahao Shi , Yanmin Wu , Chenming Wu , Xing Liu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Jian Zhang , Bin Zhou , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Gaussian Splatting (GS) is a recent and pivotal technique in 3D computer graphics. GS-based algorithms almost always bypass classical methods such as ray tracing, which offer numerous inherent advantages for rendering. For example, ray…

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful tool for high-fidelity reconstruction of dynamic scenes. However, existing methods primarily rely on implicit motion representations, such as encoding motions into neural networks or per-Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xinyu Zhang , Haonan Chang , Yuhan Liu , Abdeslam Boularias

Recently, the 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) method has achieved great success in novel view synthesis, providing real-time rendering while ensuring high-quality rendering results. However, this method faces challenges in modeling specular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiru Wang , Shiyun Xie , Chengwei Pan , Guoping Wang

We propose DrivingForward, a feed-forward Gaussian Splatting model that reconstructs driving scenes from flexible surround-view input. Driving scene images from vehicle-mounted cameras are typically sparse, with limited overlap, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qijian Tian , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) technique couples 3D Gaussian primitives with differentiable rasterization to achieve high-quality novel view synthesis results while providing advanced real-time rendering performance. However, due to the flaw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zongxin Ye , Wenyu Li , Sidun Liu , Peng Qiao , Yong Dou

We present PhySG, an end-to-end inverse rendering pipeline that includes a fully differentiable renderer and can reconstruct geometry, materials, and illumination from scratch from a set of RGB input images. Our framework represents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Qianqian Wang , Kavita Bala , Noah Snavely

Multi-view inverse rendering aims to recover geometry, materials, and illumination consistently across multiple viewpoints. When applied to multi-view images, existing single-view approaches often ignore cross-view relationships, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xiangzuo Wu , Chengwei Ren , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li , Yuan Liu

We present Bidirectional Gaussian Primitives, an image-based novel view synthesis technique designed to represent and render 3D objects with surface and volumetric materials under dynamic illumination. Our approach integrates light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyuan Liu , Yu Guo , Xinyuan Li , Bernd Bickel , Ran Zhang

3D Gaussian splatting has achieved very impressive performance in real-time novel view synthesis. However, it often suffers from over-reconstruction during Gaussian densification where high-variance image regions are covered by a few large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiahui Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Muyu Xu , Shijian Lu , Eric Xing

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for novel view synthesis. However, existing methods struggle to adaptively optimize the distribution of Gaussian primitives based on scene characteristics, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hongbi Zhou , Zhangkai Ni

Outdoor scene reconstruction remains challenging due to the stark contrast between well-textured, nearby regions and distant backgrounds dominated by low detail, uneven illumination, and sky effects. We introduce a two-stage Gaussian…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Deborah Pintani , Ariel Caputo , Noah Lewis , Marc Stamminger , Fabio Pellacini , Andrea Giachetti

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable success in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse viewpoints remains highly challenging due to insufficient visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaorui Wang , Yi Gu , Deming Zhou , Renjing Xu

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has demonstrated impressive quality and efficiency in novel view synthesis. However, shape extraction from Gaussian primitives remains an open problem. Due to inadequate geometry parameterization and approximation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Baowen Zhang , Chenxing Jiang , Heng Li , Shaojie Shen , Ping Tan

Sparse-view synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of recovering accurate geometry and appearance from limited observations. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time rendering with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yi-Hsin Li , Thomas Sikora , Sebastian Knorr , Mårten Sjöström

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao