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We tackle the challenge of learning a distribution over complex, realistic, indoor scenes. In this paper, we introduce Generative Scene Networks (GSN), which learns to decompose scenes into a collection of many local radiance fields that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Terrance DeVries , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nitish Srivastava , Graham W. Taylor , Joshua M. Susskind

Neural radiance fields have achieved remarkable performance in modeling the appearance of 3D scenes. However, existing approaches still struggle with the view-dependent appearance of glossy surfaces, especially under complex lighting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Li Ma , Vasu Agrawal , Haithem Turki , Changil Kim , Chen Gao , Pedro Sander , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt

Radiance fields have revolutionized photo-realistic 3D scene visualization by enabling high-fidelity reconstruction of complex environments, making them an ideal match for light field displays. However, integrating these technologies…

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis results, while allowing the rendering of high-resolution images in real-time. However, leveraging 3D Gaussians for surface reconstruction poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zehao Yu , Torsten Sattler , Andreas Geiger

Due to the real-time rendering performance, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as the leading method for radiance field reconstruction. However, its reliance on spherical harmonics for color encoding inherently limits its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Yang , Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

We present a novel, easy-to-use method based on the photon-mapping technique to simulate photometric images of moving targets. Realistic images can be created in two passes: photon tracing and image rendering. The nature of light sources,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Junju Du , Shaoming Hu , Xu Chen , Hai Cao , Yuchen Jiang

Visual localization is the task of estimating a camera pose in a known environment. In this paper, we utilize 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based representations for accurate and privacy-preserving visual localization. We propose Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Maxime Pietrantoni , Gabriela Csurka , Torsten Sattler

Radio-frequency (RF) Radiance Field reconstruction is a challenging problem. The difficulty lies in the interactions between the propagating signal and objects, such as reflections and diffraction, which are hard to model precisely,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Chi-Shiang Gau , Xingyu Chen , Tara Javidi , Xinyu Zhang

This paper proposes a novel framework for large-scale scene reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and aims to address the scalability and accuracy challenges faced by existing methods. For tackling the scalability issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hanyue Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Xinhe Zuo , Yuxin Tong , Ying Long , Chen Liu

We propose progressive radiance distillation, an inverse rendering method that combines physically-based rendering with Gaussian-based radiance field rendering using a distillation progress map. Taking multi-view images as input, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Keyang Ye , Qiming Hou , Kun Zhou

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has revolutionized three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction with its implicit representation. Building upon NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has departed from the implicit representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bin Zhang , Bi Zeng , Zexin Peng

3D scene reconstruction and rendering are core tasks in computer vision, with applications spanning industrial monitoring, robotics, and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and its variants have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Chi-Shiang Gau , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Athanasios Bacharis , Saketh Madhuvarasu , Tara Javidi

Novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to generate images at arbitrary viewpoints using multi-view images, and recent insights from neural radiance fields (NeRF) have contributed to remarkable improvements. Recently, studies on generalizable NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Youngho Yoon , Hyun-Kurl Jang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Modeling wave properties of light is an important milestone for advancing physically-based rendering. In this paper, we propose complex-valued holographic radiance fields, a method that optimizes scenes without relying on intensity-based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yicheng Zhan , Dong-Ha Shin , Seung-Hwan Baek , Kaan Akşit

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful alternative to NeRF-based approaches, enabling real-time, high-quality novel view synthesis through explicit, optimizable 3D Gaussians. However, 3DGS suffers from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zipeng Wang , Dan Xu

3D scene representations have gained immense popularity in recent years. Methods that use Neural Radiance fields are versatile for traditional tasks such as novel view synthesis. In recent times, some work has emerged that aims to extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shijie Zhou , Haoran Chang , Sicheng Jiang , Zhiwen Fan , Zehao Zhu , Dejia Xu , Pradyumna Chari , Suya You , Zhangyang Wang , Achuta Kadambi

Despite Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showing compelling results in photorealistic novel views synthesis of real-world scenes, most existing approaches require accurate prior camera poses. Although approaches for jointly recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Shin-Fang Chng , Sameera Ramasinghe , Jamie Sherrah , Simon Lucey

Novel view synthesis from unconstrained in-the-wild images remains a meaningful but challenging task. The photometric variation and transient occluders in those unconstrained images make it difficult to reconstruct the original scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dongbin Zhang , Chuming Wang , Weitao Wang , Peihao Li , Minghan Qin , Haoqian Wang

The semantic synthesis of unseen scenes from multiple viewpoints is crucial for research in 3D scene understanding. Current methods are capable of rendering novel-view images and semantic maps by reconstructing generalizable Neural Radiance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Wanlin Liang , Wenxiong Kang

The advent of generative radiance fields has significantly promoted the development of 3D-aware image synthesis. The cumulative rendering process in radiance fields makes training these generative models much easier since gradients are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai