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We show that radiation from complex and inherently random but correlated wave sources can be modelled efficiently by using an approach based on the Wigner distribution function. Our method exploits the connection between correlation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Gabriele Gradoni , Stephen Creagh , Gregor Tanner , Christopher Smartt , David Thomas

The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is an essential tool to capture the complex interaction of light and matter. Recently, several works have employed neural methods for BRDF modeling, following various strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Florian Hofherr , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

Creating plausible surfaces is an essential component in achieving a high degree of realism in rendering. To relieve artists, who create these surfaces in a time-consuming, manual process, automated retrieval of the spatially-varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Mark Boss , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

We introduce the physically based neural bidirectional reflectance distribution function (PBNBRDF), a novel, continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately reconstructs real-world materials…

We present a technique for estimating the shape and reflectance of an object in terms of its surface normals and spatially-varying BRDF. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under fixed view-point and varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Conventional surface-relief gratings are inefficient at deflecting normally-incident light by large angles. This constrains their use in many applications and limits the overall efficiency of any optical instrument integrating gratings.…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-19 Ashutosh Patri , Stephane Kena-Cohen , Christophe Caloz

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

The surface of metal, glass and plastic objects is often characterized by microscopic scratches caused by manufacturing and/or wear. A closer look onto such scratches reveals iridescent colors with a complex dependency on viewing and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Sebastian Werner , Zdravko Velinov , Wenzel Jakob , Matthias B. Hullin

Characterizing the appearance of real-world surfaces is a fundamental problem in multidimensional reflectometry, computer vision and computer graphics. For many applications, appearance is sufficiently well characterized by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Mikhail A. Langovoy

We consider wave propagation problems over 2-dimensional domains with piecewise-linear boundaries, possibly including scatterers. We assume that the wave speed is constant, and that the initial conditions and forcing terms are radially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Davide Pradovera , Monica Nonino , Ilaria Perugia

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have attracted major attention in the last few years, thanks to their useful characteristics. An RIS is a nearly passive thin surface that can dynamically change the reradiated field, and can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 V. Degli-Esposti , E. M. Vitucci , M. Di Renzo , S. Tretyakov

This paper presents a new method to model X-ray scattering on random rough surfaces. It combines the approaches we presented in two previous papers -- \zs\cite{zhao03} \& \pz\cite{zhao15}. An actual rough surface is (incompletely) described…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Ping Zhao

In this paper we present SurfaceNet, an approach for estimating spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution function (SVBRDF) material properties from a single image. We pose the problem as an image translation task and propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Giuseppe Vecchio , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

Recently, significant progress has been made in the study of methods for 3D reconstruction from multiple images using implicit neural representations, exemplified by the neural radiance field (NeRF) method. Such methods, which are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wooseok Kim , Taiki Fukiage , Takeshi Oishi

In this paper, scattering of incident plane waves from rough surfaces have been modeled in a fractional space. It is shown how wave scattering from a rough surface, could be a simple reflection problem in a fractional space. In the integer…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-31 H. Safdari , M. Vahabi , G. R. Jafari

We introduce Reflectance Diffusion, a new neural text-to-texture model capable of generating high-fidelity SVBRDF maps from textual descriptions. Our method leverages a tandem neural approach, consisting of two modules, to accurately model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

This work presents a new design for broadband absorption of low-frequency acoustic waves using a thin coating made of subwavelength acoustic resonators arranged periodically on a reflective surface. We first study the associated scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Habib Ammari , Yu Gao , Lara Vrabac

Electromagnetic wave control using the concept of a reflecting surface is first studied as a near-field and a far-field problem. Using a secondary source present in a wireless communication environment, such as a backscatter tag, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Okan Yurduseven , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Michail Matthaiou

Reconstructing materials in the real world has always been a difficult problem in computer graphics. Accurately reconstructing the material in the real world is critical in the field of realistic rendering. Traditionally, materials in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Zhiyao Luo , Hongnan Chen

We introduce a novel neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhe Chen , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino