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A light field records numerous light rays from a real-world scene. However, capturing a dense light field by existing devices is a time-consuming process. Besides, reconstructing a large amount of light rays equivalent to multiple light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Mantang Guo , Hao Zhu , Guoqing Zhou , Qing Wang

In this paper, we present a technique for estimating the geometry and reflectance of objects using only a camera, flashlight, and optionally a tripod. We propose a simple data capture technique in which the user goes around the object,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Daniel Lichy , Jiaye Wu , Soumyadip Sengupta , David W. Jacobs

We present total and specular reflectance measurements of various materials that are commonly (and uncommonly) used to provide baffling and/or to minimize the effect of stray light in optical systems. More specifically, we investigate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jennifer L. Marshall , Patrick Williams , Jean-Philippe Rheault , Travis Prochaska , Richard D. Allen , D. L. DePoy

We propose the first approach for the decomposition of a monocular color video into direct and indirect illumination components in real time. We retrieve, in separate layers, the contribution made to the scene appearance by the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Abhimitra Meka , Mohammad Shafiei , Michael Zollhoefer , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

Optical images of transparent three-dimensional objects can be different from a replica of the object's cross section in the image plane due to refraction at the surface or in the body of the object. Simulations of the object's image are…

We perceive the world through images formed by scattering. The ability to interpret scattering data mathematically has opened to our scrutiny the constituents of matter, the building blocks of life, and the remotest corners of the universe.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Dimitrios Giannakis , Peter Schwander , Abbas Ourmazd

We consider the use of digital signal processing to reconstruct continuous reflectance spectra using a small finite set of randomly illuminated light emitting diodes (LEDs). We simulate the use of LEDs having identical spectral distance and…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-29 John C. Howell , Pieter H. Neethling , Tjaart P. J. Kruger

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions or raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages the motion differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

Implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed impressive results for photorealistic rendering of complex scenes with fine details. However, ideal or near-perfectly specular reflecting objects such as mirrors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leif Van Holland , Ruben Bliersbach , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

In this paper, we propose a novel projector-camera system for practical and low-cost acquisition of a dense object 3D model with the spectral reflectance property. In our system, we use a standard RGB camera and leverage an off-the-shelf…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Chunyu Li , Yusuke Monno , Hironori Hidaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

Memory-effect-based methods have been demonstrated to be feasible to observe hidden objects through thin scattering layers, even from a single-shot speckle pattern. However, most of the existing methods are performed with narrowband…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-20 Tengfei Wu , Chengfei Guo , Xiaopeng Shao

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

Refraction is a common physical phenomenon and has long been researched in computer vision. Objects imaged through a refractive object appear distorted in the image as a function of the shape of the interface between the media. This hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Antonin Sulc , Imari Sato , Bastian Goldluecke , Tali Treibitz

We present a deep learning approach to reconstruct scene appearance from unstructured images captured under collocated point lighting. At the heart of Deep Reflectance Volumes is a novel volumetric scene representation consisting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Speckled images of a binary broad band light source (600-670 nm), generated by randomized reflections or transmissions, were used to reconstruct a binary image by use of multi-frame blind deconvolution algorithms. Craft store glitter was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 Xiaopeng Peng , Garreth J. Ruane , Grover A. Swartzlander

The relatively hot temperature of the human body causes people to turn into long-wave infrared light sources. Since this emitted light has a larger wavelength than visible light, many surfaces in typical scenes act as infrared mirrors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ruoshi Liu , Carl Vondrick

The observation of objects located in inaccessible regions is a recurring challenge in a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has shown that indirect diffuse light reflections can be used to reconstruct objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Jonathan Klein , Christoph Peters , Jaime Martín , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin