3D Reconstruction

Ask about this topic

Overview

3D reconstruction studies how to infer the shape and appearance of objects or scenes, along with camera positions and motion, from partial observations. Methods range from structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo to neural radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, signed distance fields, meshes, and feed-forward models that predict geometry directly; some also use diffusion priors, active view selection, or physical sensor models. Applications include mapping and robotics, digital twins, medical imaging, and human or object modeling, with evaluations often comparing both rendered views and geometric accuracy on indoor, outdoor, and specialized datasets. A central challenge is that realistic novel-view images do not always imply accurate, metrically consistent geometry, especially with sparse or unposed views, changing scenes, difficult materials, or limited computation.

Latest papers

CardsList

957 papers121 papers in the last four weeks, up 27% on the four weeks before. 0.7% of all new papers.

  1. To View Transform or Not to View Transform: NeRF-based Pre-training Perspective

    Mar 30, 2026Hyeonjun Jeong, Juyeb Shin, Dongsuk Kum3D ReconstructionAutonomous Driving Perception

    KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

  2. From None to All: Self-Supervised 3D Reconstruction via Novel View Synthesis

    Mar 29, 2026Ranran Huang, Weixun Luo, Ye Mao +13D ReconstructionMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Imperial College London

  3. NimbusGS: Unified 3D Scene Reconstruction under Hybrid Weather

    Mar 28, 2026Yanying Li, Jinyang Li, Shengfeng He +33D ReconstructionMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China · Singapore Management University · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) +1

  4. HD-VGGT: High-Resolution Visual Geometry Transformer

    Mar 28, 2026Tianrun Chen, Yuanqi Hu, Yidong Han +113D Reconstruction3D ViTs

    KOKONI 3D, Moxin Technology · Zhejiang University · Huzhou University +4

  5. Generative Shape Reconstruction with Geometry-Guided Langevin Dynamics

    Mar 27, 2026Linus Härenstam-Nielsen, Dmitrii Pozdeev, Thomas Dagès +23D Reconstruction3D Shape Completion

    Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning

  6. Detailed Geometry and Appearance from Opportunistic Motion

    Mar 27, 2026Ryosuke Hirai, Kohei Yamashita, Antoine Guédon +33D ReconstructionSparse-View 3D Reconstruction

    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan · École Polytechnique, France · LIGM, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, IP Paris, Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, France

  7. RigidDriveGS: Object-Centric Vehicle Reconstruction from Fixed Multi-Camera Drive-Through Captures

    Mar 27, 2026Nitin Kulkarni, Akhil Devarashetti, Charlie Cluss +43D ReconstructionDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    ACV Auctions, Buffalo, NY, USA · University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

  8. Scene Grounding In the Wild

    Mar 27, 2026Tamir Cohen, Leo Segre, Shay Shomer-Chai +2Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Tel Aviv University · Cornell University

  9. Conditional Diffusion for 3D CT Volume Reconstruction from 2D X-rays

    Mar 27, 2026Martin Rath, Morteza Ghahremani, Yitong Li +33D ReconstructionMedical Image Synthesis

    Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Germany · University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia

  10. GLINT: Modeling Scene-Scale Transparency via Gaussian Radiance Transport

    Mar 27, 2026Youngju Na, Jaeseong Yun, Soohyun Ryu +33D Reconstruction3D Scene Representation

    KAIST · NAVER LABS

  11. JRM: Joint Reconstruction Model for Multiple Objects without Alignment

    Mar 27, 2026Qirui Wu, Yawar Siddiqui, Duncan Frost +6Object-Centric 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Meta Reality Labs Research · Simon Fraser University

  12. ArtHOI: Taming Foundation Models for Monocular 4D Reconstruction of Hand-Articulated-Object Interactions

    Mar 26, 2026Zikai Wang, Zhilu Zhang, Yiqing Wang +2Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction4D Reconstruction

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  13. Neural Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data

    Mar 26, 2026Judith Treffler, Vladimír Kubelka, Henrik Andreasson +1Implicit Neural Representations3D Reconstruction

    The authors are with ARC and the AASS RNP lab, Örebro University, Sweden

  14. AirSplat: Alignment and Rating for Robust Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 26, 2026Minh-Quan Viet Bui, Jaeho Moon, Munchurl KimNovel View Synthesis3D Gaussian Splatting

    KAIST, Republic of Korea

  15. Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics

    Mar 26, 2026Jing Tao, Taihang Lei, Banglei Guan +5Computational ImagingHDR Imaging

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Vision Navigation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hypersonic Technology Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

  16. EndoVGGT: GNN-Enhanced Depth Estimation for Surgical 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 25, 2026Falong Fan, Yi Xie, Arnis Lektauers +2Endoscopic 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

  17. HGGT: Robust and Flexible 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Images

    Mar 25, 2026Yumeng Liu, Xiao-Xiao Long, Marc Habermann +53D Hand Reconstruction3D Mesh Reconstruction

    University of Science and Technology of China · Nanjing University · Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik +3

  18. FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Captures

    Mar 24, 2026Yujie Sun, Zhuoqiang Cai, Chaoyue Niu +43D Avatar Generation3D Reconstruction

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Alibaba Group

  19. Patchwork: A compact representation for 3D polygonal shapes

    Mar 24, 2026Ruichen Zheng, Biao Zhang, Michael Birsak +2Geometric Representation Learning3D Representation Learning

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia

  20. UniQueR: Unified Query-based Feedforward 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 24, 2026Chensheng Peng, Quentin Herau, Jiezhi Yang +63D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    Applied Intuition · UC Berkeley · Stanford University

  21. Know3D: Prompting 3D Generation with Knowledge from Vision-Language Models

    Mar 24, 2026Wenyue Chen, Wenjue Chen, Peng Li +63D Asset Generation3D Reconstruction

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ultra High Definition Immersive Media Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China · Math Magic, Beijing, China · Peking University, Beijing, China +2

  22. CAM3R: Camera-Agnostic Model for 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 23, 2026Namitha Guruprasad, Abhay Yadav, Cheng Peng +13D ReconstructionMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA

  23. A Vision Language Model for Generating Procedural Plant Architecture Representations from Simulated Images

    Mar 23, 2026Heesup Yun, Isaac Kazuo Uyehara, Ioannis Droutsas +4Procedural Content GenerationPlant Phenotyping

    Biological and Agricultural Engineering, One Shields Avenue, Davis, 95616, CA, USA · Department of Plant Sciences, One Shields Avenue, Davis, 95616, CA, USA · Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 9101, 6700 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands +1

  24. FullCircle: Effortless 3D Reconstruction from Casual 360∘^\circ Captures

    Mar 23, 2026Yalda Foroutan, Ipek Oztas, Daniel Rebain +43D Reconstruction Benchmarks3D Reconstruction

    Simon Fraser University · Bilkent University · University of British Columbia +1

  25. Static Scene Reconstruction from Dynamic Egocentric Videos

    Mar 23, 2026Qifei Cui, Patrick Chen3D Reconstruction

    Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

  26. GTSR: Subsurface Scattering Awared 3D Gaussians for Translucent Surface Reconstruction

    Mar 23, 2026Youwen Yuan, Xi Zhao3D ReconstructionMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  27. SatGeo-NeRF: Geometrically Regularized NeRF for Satellite Imagery

    Mar 23, 2026Valentin Wagner, Sebastian Bullinger, Michael Arens +13D ReconstructionNeural Radiance Fields

    Fraunhofer IOSB, Ettlingen, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  28. RefracGS: Novel View Synthesis Through Refractive Water Surfaces with 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing

    Mar 23, 2026Yiming Shao, Qiyu Dai, Chong Gao +6Novel View Synthesis3D Reconstruction

    Shandong University, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · Sun Yat-sen University, China +2

  29. PA-SFM: Tracker-free differentiable acoustic radiation for freehand 3D photoacoustic imaging

    Mar 23, 2026Shuang Li, Jian Gao, Chulhong Kim +10Photoacoustic Tomography3D Medical Imaging

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China. · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China. · Department of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation Center, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea. +1

  30. SARe: Structure-Aware Generative 3D Fragment Reassembly

    Mar 23, 2026Hanze Jia, Chunshi Wang, Yuxiao Yang +4Generative Modeling3D Reconstruction

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University · Laboratory of Art and Archaeology Image, Zhejiang University