AI RESEARCH
Thermal is Always Wild: Characterizing and Addressing Challenges in Thermal-Only Novel View Synthesis
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2603.20448v1 Announce Type: new Thermal cameras provide reliable visibility in darkness and adverse conditions, but thermal imagery remains significantly harder to use for novel view synthesis (NVS) than visible-light images. This difficulty stems primarily from two characteristics of affordable thermal sensors. First, thermal images have extremely low dynamic range, which weakens appearance cues and limits the gradients available for optimization.