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3D models have recently been popularized by the potentiality of end-to-end training offered first by Neural Radiance Fields and most recently by 3D Gaussian Splatting models. The latter has the big advantage of naturally providing fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Muhammad Salman Ali , Sung-Ho Bae , Enzo Tartaglione

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

Gaussian Splatting (GS) is a recent and pivotal technique in 3D computer graphics. GS-based algorithms almost always bypass classical methods such as ray tracing, which offer numerous inherent advantages for rendering. For example, ray…

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a state-of-art technique to model real-world scenes with high quality and real-time rendering. Typically, a higher quality representation can be achieved by using a large number of 3D Gaussians. However,…

This paper investigates an open research challenge of reconstructing high-quality, large 3D open scenes from images. It is observed existing methods have various limitations, such as requiring precise camera poses for input and dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chong Cheng , Gaochao Song , Yiyang Yao , Qinzheng Zhou , Gangjian Zhang , Hao Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has achieved significant success in real-time, high-quality 3D scene rendering. However, it faces several challenges, including Gaussian redundancy, limited ability to capture view-dependent effects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Junxi Jin , Xiulai Li , Haiping Huang , Lianjun Liu , Yujie Sun , Logan Liu

We present latentSplat, a method to predict semantic Gaussians in a 3D latent space that can be splatted and decoded by a light-weight generative 2D architecture. Existing methods for generalizable 3D reconstruction either do not scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Christopher Wewer , Kevin Raj , Eddy Ilg , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in capturing complex 3D scenes with high fidelity. However, one persistent challenge that hinders the widespread adoption of NeRFs is the computational bottleneck due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

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

In the rapidly evolving field of 3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) represent significant advancements. Although 2DGS compresses 3D Gaussian primitives into 2D Gaussian surfels to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhuoxiao Li , Shanliang Yao , Yijie Chu , Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez , Yong Yue , Eng Gee Lim , Xiaohui Zhu

Multi-goal reinforcement learning (RL) aims to qualify the agent to accomplish multi-goal tasks, which is of great importance in learning scalable robotic manipulation skills. However, reward engineering always requires strenuous efforts in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Deyu Yang , Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Jishiyu Ding

4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) has recently emerged as a promising technique for capturing complex dynamic 3D scenes with high fidelity. It utilizes a 4D Gaussian representation and a GPU-friendly rasterizer, enabling rapid rendering speeds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xinjie Zhang , Zhening Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xingtong Ge , Dailan He , Tongda Xu , Yan Wang , Zehong Lin , Shuicheng Yan , Jun Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in novel view synthesis (NVS). However, 3DGS tends to overfit when trained with sparse views, limiting its generalization to novel viewpoints. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chen Zhao , Xuan Wang , Tong Zhang , Saqib Javed , Mathieu Salzmann

3DGS employs a large number of Gaussian primitives to fit scenes, resulting in substantial storage and computational overhead. Existing pruning methods rely on manually designed criteria or introduce additional learnable parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xiaobin Deng , Qiuli Yu , Changyu Diao , Min Li , Duanqing Xu

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has significantly advanced 3D reconstruction by providing high fidelity and fast training speeds across various scenarios. While recent efforts have mainly focused on improving model structures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yifei Gao , Jun Huang , Lei Wang , Ruiting Dai , Jun Cheng

Underwater 3D scene reconstruction faces severe challenges from light absorption, scattering, and turbidity, which degrade geometry and color fidelity in traditional methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While NeRF extensions such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Changting Lin , Jianfeng Dong , Chaochao Chen , Xun Zhou , Meng Han

Recent work has shown that 3D Gaussian-based SLAM enables high-quality reconstruction, accurate pose estimation, and real-time rendering of scenes. However, these approaches are built on a tremendous number of redundant 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianchen Deng , Chang Nie , Shuhong Liu , Wenhua Wu , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Jiuming Liu , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

Learning robot manipulation policies from raw, real-world image data requires a large number of robot-action trials in the physical environment. Although training using simulations offers a cost-effective alternative, the visual domain gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has garnered significant attention due to its superior scene representation fidelity and real-time rendering performance, especially for dynamic 3D scene reconstruction (\textit{i.e.}, 4D reconstruction).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Henan Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xinliang Gong , Tianyu He , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

Recent years have witnessed the rapid emergence of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) as a powerful approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Its explicit representation with Gaussian primitives enables fast training, real-time…

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