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Recently, the impressive generative capabilities of diffusion models have been demonstrated, producing images with remarkable fidelity. Particularly, existing methods for the 3D object generation tasks, which is one of the fastest-growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jaeseok Lee , Jaekoo Lee

A crucial ability of human intelligence is to build up models of individual 3D objects from partial scene observations. Recent works achieve object-centric generation but without the ability to infer the representation, or achieve 3D scene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Chang Chen , Fei Deng , Sungjin Ahn

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

Synthesizing photo-realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are generated using rendering algorithms such as rasterization or…

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for perception and interaction. Existing approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wanhee Lee , Klemen Kotar , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , Jared Watrous , Honglin Chen , Khai Loong Aw , Daniel L. K. Yamins

We consider a class of inverse problems characterized by forward operators that are partially specified, non-smooth, and non-differentiable. Although generative inverse solvers have made significant progress, we find that these forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sattwik Basu , Chaitanya Amballa , Zhongweiyang Xu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Srihari Nelakuditi , Romit Roy Choudhury

Achieving physically consistent image editing remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Existing image editing methods typically rely on neural networks, which struggle to accurately handle shadows and refractions. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lezhong Wang , Duc Minh Tran , Ruiqi Cui , Thomson TG , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Manmohan Chandraker

We introduce Intrinsic Image Fusion, a method that reconstructs high-quality physically based materials from multi-view images. Material reconstruction is highly underconstrained and typically relies on analysis-by-synthesis, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Peter Kocsis , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

Recent advances in visual generative models have highlighted the promise of learning generative world models. However, most existing approaches frame world modeling as novel-view synthesis or future-frame prediction, emphasizing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yifan Yin , Zehao Wen , Jieneng Chen , Zehan Zheng , Nanru Dai , Haojun Shi , Suyu Ye , Aydan Huang , Zheyuan Zhang , Alan Yuille , Jianwen Xie , Ayush Tewari , Tianmin Shu

Three-dimensional particle reconstruction with limited two-dimensional projections is an under-determined inverse problem that the exact solution is often difficult to be obtained. In general, approximate solutions can be obtained by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Qi Gao , Shaowu Pan , Hongping Wang , Runjie Wei , Jinjun Wang

The problem of inferring object shape from a single 2D image is underconstrained. Prior knowledge about what objects are plausible can help, but even given such prior knowledge there may still be uncertainty about the shapes of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Matthew D. Hoffman , Tuan Anh Le , Pavel Sountsov , Christopher Suter , Ben Lee , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Rif A. Saurous

Recovering the intrinsic physical attributes of a scene from images, generally termed as the inverse rendering problem, has been a central and challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. In this paper, we present GUS-IR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zhihao Liang , Hongdong Li , Kui Jia , Kailing Guo , Qi Zhang

Trained generative models have shown remarkable performance as priors for inverse problems in imaging -- for example, Generative Adversarial Network priors permit recovery of test images from 5-10x fewer measurements than sparsity priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Asim , Mara Daniels , Oscar Leong , Ali Ahmed , Paul Hand

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

The ultimate goal of many image-based modeling systems is to render photo-realistic novel views of a scene without visible artifacts. Existing evaluation metrics and benchmarks focus mainly on the geometric accuracy of the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Michael Waechter , Mate Beljan , Simon Fuhrmann , Nils Moehrle , Johannes Kopf , Michael Goesele

In this work, we present an automated workflow to bring human figures, one of the most frequently appearing entities on pictorial maps, to the third dimension. Our workflow is based on training data and neural networks for single-view 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Raimund Schnürer , A. Cengiz Öztireli , Magnus Heitzler , René Sieber , Lorenz Hurni

This paper presents a method to reconstruct high-quality textured 3D models from both multi-view and single-view images. The reconstruction is posed as an adaptation problem and is done progressively where in the first stage, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Aysegul Dundar , Jun Gao , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Large scale 3D scene reconstruction is important for applications such as virtual reality and simulation. Existing neural rendering approaches (e.g., NeRF, 3DGS) have achieved realistic reconstructions on large scenes, but optimize per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yun Chen , Jingkang Wang , Ze Yang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

We tackle the problem of automatically reconstructing a complete 3D model of a scene from a single RGB image. This challenging task requires inferring the shape of both visible and occluded surfaces. Our approach utilizes viewer-centered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Daeyun Shin , Zhile Ren , Erik B. Sudderth , Charless C. Fowlkes

In recent works, both sparsity-based methods as well as learning-based methods have proven to be successful in solving several challenging linear inverse problems. However, sparsity priors for natural signals and images suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-26 Viraj Shah , Chinmay Hegde