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Accurate geometric surface reconstruction, providing essential environmental information for navigation and manipulation tasks, is critical for enabling robotic self-exploration and interaction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Zhaoning Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Zongqian Zhan

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

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 relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced high-quality novel view synthesis at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Arjun Majumdar , Andreas Engelhardt , Raphael Braun , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Opaque objects reconstructed by 3DGS often exhibit a falsely transparent surface, leading to inconsistent background and internal patterns under camera motion in interactive viewing. This issue stems from the ill-posed optimization in 3DGS.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Aly El Hakie , Yiren Lu , Yu Yin , Michael Jenkins , Yehe Liu

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable progress in novel view synthesis. However, accurately reconstructing glossy surfaces under complex illumination remains challenging, particularly in scenes with strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ningjing Fan , Yiqun Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a significant advancement in 3D scene reconstruction, attracting considerable attention due to its ability to recover high-fidelity details while maintaining low complexity. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Qiqi Hou , Randall Rauwendaal , Zifeng Li , Hoang Le , Farzad Farhadzadeh , Fatih Porikli , Alexei Bourd , Amir Said

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated excellent ability in small-scale 3D surface reconstruction. However, extending 3DGS to large-scale scenes remains a significant challenge. To address this gap, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 YuanZheng Wu , Jin Liu , Shunping Ji

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

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves remarkable results in the field of surface reconstruction. However, when Gaussian normal vectors are aligned within the single-view projection plane, while the geometry appears reasonable in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Bo Jia , Yanan Guo , Ying Chang , Benkui Zhang , Ying Xie , Kangning Du , Lin Cao

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for generating photorealistic renderings of a scene in real-time. However, the volumetric nature of 3DGS limits its ability to accurately capture surface geometry. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Prajwal Gupta C. R. , Divyam Sheth , Jinjoo Ha , Mirela Ostrek , Justus Thies

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for 3D scene representation, offering a reduction in computational overhead compared to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). However, 3DGS is susceptible to high-frequency artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Shen Chen , Jiale Zhou , Lei Li

Recently, 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has demonstrated superior geometry reconstruction quality than the popular 3DGS by using 2D surfels to approximate thin surfaces. However, it falls short when dealing with glossy surfaces, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yixin Yang , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

Gaussian splatting has achieved impressive improvements for both novel-view synthesis and surface reconstruction from multi-view images. However, current methods still struggle to reconstruct high-quality surfaces from only sparse view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Zhuowen Shen , Yuan Liu , Zhang Chen , Zhong Li , Jiepeng Wang , Yongqing Liang , Zhengming Yu , Jingdong Zhang , Yi Xu , Scott Schaefer , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

Reconstructing 3D assets from images, known as inverse rendering (IR), remains a challenging task due to its ill-posed nature. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities for novel view synthesis (NVS) tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hanxiao Sun , YuPeng Gao , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

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

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

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