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We propose a method to enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)~\cite{Kerbl2023}, addressing challenges in initialization, optimization, and density control. Gaussian Splatting is an alternative for rendering realistic images while supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xingjun Wang , Lianlei Shan

Recent advances in radiance field reconstruction, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have achieved high-quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering by representing scenes with compositions of Gaussian primitives. However, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jan Held , Renaud Vandeghen , Abdullah Hamdi , Adrien Deliege , Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Andrea Vedaldi , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

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

3D scene reconstruction is fundamental for spatial intelligence applications such as AR, robotics, and digital twins. Traditional multi-view stereo struggles with sparse viewpoints or low-texture regions, while neural rendering approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiaqi Yao , Zhongmiao Yan , Jingyi Xu , Songpengcheng Xia , Yan Xiang , Ling Pei

Despite recent advances in leveraging generative prior from pre-trained diffusion models for 3D scene reconstruction, existing methods still face two critical limitations. First, due to the lack of reliable geometric supervision, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junfeng Ni , Yixin Chen , Zhifei Yang , Yu Liu , Ruijie Lu , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

In this paper, we introduce Trim 3D Gaussian Splatting (TrimGS) to reconstruct accurate 3D geometry from images. Previous arts for geometry reconstruction from 3D Gaussians mainly focus on exploring strong geometry regularization. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Lue Fan , Yuxue Yang , Minxing Li , Hongsheng Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic surgical scenes from endoscopic video is essential for robotic-assisted surgery. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise in achieving high-quality reconstructions with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jialei Chen , Xin Zhang , Mobarakol Islam , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Daniel S. Elson , Baoru Huang

Efficiently synthesizing novel views from sparse inputs while maintaining accuracy remains a critical challenge in 3D reconstruction. While advanced techniques like radiance fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting achieve rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Yu Lin , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has gained attention as a fast and effective method for novel view synthesis. It has also been applied to 3D reconstruction using multi-view images and can achieve fast and accurate 3D reconstruction. However, GS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Natsuki Takama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Takafumi Aoki

3D Gaussian Splatting offers a strong speed-quality trade-off but struggles to reconstruct semi-transparent surfaces because most methods assume a single depth per pixel, which fails when multiple surfaces are visible. We propose TSPE-GS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhiyuan Xu , Nan Min , Yuhang Guo , Tong Wei

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient rendering, yet accurate surface reconstruction remains challenging due to unreliable geometric supervision. Existing approaches predominantly rely on depth-based reprojection to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mai Su , Qihan Yu , Zhongtao Wang , Yilong Li , Chengwei Pan , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Fei Zhu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

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

In this paper, we introduce Textured-GS, an innovative method for rendering Gaussian splatting that incorporates spatially defined color and opacity variations using Spherical Harmonics (SH). This approach enables each Gaussian to exhibit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Zhentao Huang , Minglun Gong

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a popular radiance field method, with many application-specific extensions. Most variants rely on the same core algorithm: depth-sorting of Gaussian splats then rasterizing in primitive order. This ensures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shakiba Kheradmand , Delio Vicini , George Kopanas , Dmitry Lagun , Kwang Moo Yi , Mark Matthews , Andrea Tagliasacchi

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) effectively synthesizes novel views through its flexible representation, yet fails to accurately reconstruct scene geometry. While modern variants like PGSR introduce additional losses to ensure proper depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zhentao Huang , Di Wu , Zhenbang He , Minglun Gong

We present GSD, a diffusion model approach based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) representation for 3D object reconstruction from a single view. Prior works suffer from inconsistent 3D geometry or mediocre rendering quality due to improper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuxuan Mu , Xinxin Zuo , Chuan Guo , Yilin Wang , Juwei Lu , Xiaofeng Wu , Songcen Xu , Peng Dai , Youliang Yan , Li Cheng

The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique has significantly advanced the construction of radiance fields from multi-view images, enabling real-time rendering. While point-based rasterization effectively reduces computational demands for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jiaze Li , Zhengyu Wen , Luo Zhang , Jiangbei Hu , Fei Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He