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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made significant strides in novel view synthesis but is limited by the substantial number of Gaussian primitives required, posing challenges for deployment on lightweight devices. Recent methods address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhengqing Gao , Dongting Hu , Jia-Wang Bian , Huan Fu , Yan Li , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang

The field of computer graphics was revolutionized by models such as Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting, displacing triangles as the dominant representation for photogrammetry. In this paper, we argue for a triangle comeback.…

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its high-quality rendering capabilities, ultra-fast training, and inference speeds. However, when we apply 3DGS to surface reconstruction tasks, especially in environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chenfeng Hou , Qi Xun Yeo , Mengqi Guo , Yongxin Su , Yanyan Li , Gim Hee Lee

In this paper, we propose UniGS, a unified map representation and differentiable framework for high-fidelity multimodal 3D reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our framework integrates a CUDA-accelerated rasterization pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jianhao Jiao , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Jun Ma

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

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently revolutionized radiance field reconstruction, achieving high quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering speed without baking. However, 3DGS fails to accurately represent surfaces due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Binbin Huang , Zehao Yu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Shenghua Gao

3D reconstruction and simulation, although interrelated, have distinct objectives: reconstruction requires a flexible 3D representation that can adapt to diverse scenes, while simulation needs a structured representation to model motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Shaojie Ma , Yawei Luo , Wei Yang , Yi Yang

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has proven to be highly effective in novel view synthesis, achieving high-quality and real-time rendering. However, its potential for reconstructing detailed 3D shapes has not been fully explored. Existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Baowen Zhang , Chuan Fang , Rakesh Shrestha , Yixun Liang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

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

Differentiable rendering enables efficient optimization by allowing gradients to be computed through the rendering process, facilitating 3D reconstruction, inverse rendering and neural scene representation learning. To ensure…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Minye Wu , Haizhao Dai , Kaixin Yao , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jingyi Yu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities in novel view synthesis. However, rendering reflective objects remains a significant challenge, particularly in inverse rendering and relighting. We introduce RTR-GS, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yongyang Zhou , Fang-Lue Zhang , Zichen Wang , Lei Zhang

The 3D Gaussian splatting methods are getting popular. However, they work directly on the signal, leading to a dense representation of the signal. Even with some techniques such as pruning or distillation, the results are still dense. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yuanhao Gong

Rendering and reconstruction are long-standing topics in computer vision and graphics. Achieving both high rendering quality and accurate geometry is a challenge. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Meng Wei , Qianyi Wu , Jianmin Zheng , Hamid Rezatofighi , Jianfei Cai

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) leverages densely distributed Gaussian primitives for high-quality scene representation and reconstruction. While existing 3DGS methods perform well in scenes with minor view variation, large view changes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chenhao Zhang , Yuanping Cao , Lei 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

Most advances in 3D Generative Adversarial Networks (3D GANs) largely depend on ray casting-based volume rendering, which incurs demanding rendering costs. One promising alternative is rasterization-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Sangeek Hyun , Jae-Pil Heo

Differentiable rendering techniques have recently shown promising results for free-viewpoint video synthesis of characters. However, such methods, either Gaussian Splatting or neural implicit rendering, typically necessitate per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Boyao Zhou , Shunyuan Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) is a recent 3D scene reconstruction technique that enables real-time rendering of novel views by modeling scenes as parametric point clouds of differentiable 3D Gaussians. However, its rendering speed and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Geng Lin , Vasu Singla , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in scene reconstruction. However, most existing GS-based surface reconstruction methods focus on 3D objects or limited scenes. Directly applying these methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yuanyuan Gao , Yalun Dai , Hao Li , Weicai Ye , Junyi Chen , Danpeng Chen , Dingwen Zhang , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang , Junwei Han