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Image-based 3D reconstruction is a challenging task that involves inferring the 3D shape of an object or scene from a set of input images. Learning-based methods have gained attention for their ability to directly estimate 3D shapes. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Anurag Dalal , Daniel Hagen , Kjell G. Robbersmyr , Kristian Muri Knausgård

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a state-of-the-art framework for real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis. However, its substantial storage requirements and inherently unstructured representation pose challenges for deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuqin Lu , Yang Zhou , Yihua Dai , Guiqing Li , Shengfeng He

We present 3D Surface Splatting (3DSS), the first differentiable surface splatting renderer for physically-based inverse rendering from multi-view images. Our central insight is that the surface separation problem at the heart of surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma

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

Reconstructing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views has seen rapid progress in recent years. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that continuous volumetric radiance fields can achieve high-quality image synthesis, but their long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jan Held , Renaud Vandeghen , Sanghyun Son , Daniel Rebain , Matheus Gadelha , Yi Zhou , Ming C. Lin , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Recovering 3D information from scenes via multi-view stereo reconstruction (MVS) and novel view synthesis (NVS) is inherently challenging, particularly in scenarios involving sparse-view setups. The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shubhendu Jena , Shishir Reddy Vutukur , Adnane Boukhayma

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a promising technique for 3D reconstruction, offering efficient training and rendering speeds, making it suitable for real-time applications.However, current methods require highly controlled environments (no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sara Sabour , Lily Goli , George Kopanas , Mark Matthews , Dmitry Lagun , Leonidas Guibas , Alec Jacobson , David J. Fleet , Andrea Tagliasacchi

3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructs scenes by starting from a sparse Structure-from-Motion initialization and refining under-reconstructed regions. This process is slow, as it requires multiple densification steps where Gaussians are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Björn Ommer

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

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) greatly accelerated mesh extraction from posed images due to its explicit representation and fast software rasterization. While the addition of geometric losses and other priors has improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Lukas Radl , Felix Windisch , Andreas Kurz , Thomas Köhler , Michael Steiner , Markus Steinberger

Current Gaussian Splatting approaches are effective for reconstructing entire scenes but lack the option to target specific objects, making them computationally expensive and unsuitable for object-specific applications. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Marcel Rogge , Didier Stricker

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

Scene reconstruction has emerged as a central challenge in computer vision, with approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting achieving remarkable progress. While Gaussian Splatting demonstrates strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alexander Valverde , Brian Xu , Yuyin Zhou , Meng Xu , Hongyun Wang

Previous surface reconstruction methods either suffer from low geometric accuracy or lengthy training times when dealing with real-world complex dynamic scenes involving multi-person activities, and human-object interactions. To tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shuo Wang , Binbin Huang , Ruoyu Wang , Shenghua Gao

This paper introduces OpenGaussian, a method based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) capable of 3D point-level open vocabulary understanding. Our primary motivation stems from observing that existing 3DGS-based open vocabulary methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yanmin Wu , Jiarui Meng , Haijie Li , Chenming Wu , Yahao Shi , Xinhua Cheng , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Jian Zhang

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of common indoor scenes is crucial for VR and AR applications. 3D Gaussian splatting, a novel differentiable rendering technique, has achieved state-of-the-art novel view synthesis results with high rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Iaroslav Melekhov , Otto Seiskari , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Understanding open-vocabulary 3D scenes with Gaussian-based representations remains challenging due to fragmented and spatially inconsistent semantic predictions across multi-view observations. In this paper, we present OpenGaFF, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Sen Wang , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

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