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The neural radiance field (NeRF) has made significant strides in representing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views. Despite its advancements, the high computational costs of NeRF have posed challenges for its deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xiangyu Sun , Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Jong Hwan Ko , Usman Ali , Eunbyung Park

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Krzysztof Byrski , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Marcin Kądziołka , Dawid Baran , Przemysław Spurek

Accurate reconstruction and relighting of glossy objects remains a longstanding challenge, as object shape, material properties, and illumination are inherently difficult to disentangle. Existing neural rendering approaches often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis with high visual quality. However, existing methods struggle with semi-transparent specular surfaces that exhibit both complex reflections and clear transmission, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ji Shi , Xianghua Ying , Bowei Xing , Ruohao Guo , Wenzhen Yue

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown a powerful capability for novel view synthesis due to its detailed expressive ability and highly efficient rendering speed. Unfortunately, creating relightable 3D assets and reconstructing faithful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Beibei Wang , Jian Yang

The reconstruction of 3D objects from calibrated photographs represents a fundamental yet intricate challenge in the domains of computer graphics and vision. Although neural reconstruction approaches based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Chen Du , Truong Nguyen

This paper presents DENSER, an efficient and effective approach leveraging 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) for the reconstruction of dynamic urban environments. While several methods for photorealistic scene representations, both implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mahmud A. Mohamad , Gamal Elghazaly , Arthur Hubert , Raphael Frank

Mirror-containing environments pose unique challenges for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis (NVS), as reflective surfaces introduce view-dependent distortions and inconsistencies. While cutting-edge methods such as Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zijing Guo , Yunyang Zhao , Lin Wang

Transmissive scenes are ubiquitous in daily life, yet reconstructing and rendering them remains highly challenging due to the inherent entanglement between near-field reflections from the surrounding environment on the transmissive surface,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Liang , Xiao Zhang , Tianchao Li , Jack C. P. Cheng , Chi-Keung Tang

Accurately rendering scenes with reflective surfaces remains a significant challenge in novel view synthesis, as existing methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often misinterpret reflections as physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiayi Song , Zihan Ye , Qingyuan Zhou , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei , Jingyi Xu , Ying He , Wanli Ouyang

We present a novel inverse rendering-based framework to estimate the 3D shape (per-pixel surface normals and depth) of objects and scenes from single-view polarization images, the problem popularly known as Shape from Polarization (SfP).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from computationally intensive processes like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Yang , Jungseok Hong , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a leading 3D scene reconstruction method, obtaining high-quality reconstruction with real-time rendering runtime performance. The main idea behind 3DGS is to represent the scene as a collection of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rajaei Khatib , Raja Giryes

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have demonstrated the feasibility of self-driving scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, most existing methods either rely solely on cameras or use LiDAR only for Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 ZY Chen , F Zhu , H Zhu , DY Kong , XK Kuang , YJ Zhang , CM Jiang

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting-based inverse rendering extend Gaussian primitives with shading parameters and physically grounded light transport, enabling high-quality material recovery from dense multi-view captures. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Patrick Noras , Jun Myeong Choi , Didier Stricker , Pieter Peers , Roni Sengupta

This paper focuses on scene reconstruction under nighttime conditions in autonomous driving simulation. Recent methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have achieved photorealistic modeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tae-Kyeong Kim , Xingxin Chen , Guile Wu , Chengjie Huang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D GS) achieves impressive results in novel view synthesis for small, single-object scenes through Gaussian ellipsoid initialization and adaptive density control. However, when applied to large-scale remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 BoCheng Li , WenJuan Zhang , Bing Zhang , YiLing Yao , YaNing Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently enabled real-time photorealistic rendering in compact scenes, but scaling to large urban environments introduces severe aliasing artifacts and optimization instability, especially under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Houqiang Zhong , Zhenglong Wu , Sihua Fu , Zihan Zheng , Xin Jin , Xiaoyun Zhang , Li Song , Qiang Hu

We present a novel method for efficient acquisition of shape and spatially varying reflectance of 3D objects using polarization cues. Unlike previous works that have exploited polarization to estimate material or object appearance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Valentin Deschaintre , Yiming Lin , Abhijeet Ghosh

Despite advances in physics-based 3D motion synthesis, current methods face key limitations: reliance on pre-reconstructed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) built from dense multi-view images with time-consuming per-scene optimization; physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chunji Lv , Zequn Chen , Donglin Di , Weinan Zhang , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Yinjie Lei , Changsheng Li