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Reflection of near-infrared light is important for preventing heat transfer in energy saving applications. A large-area, mass-producible reflector that contains randomly distributed disk-shaped silver nanoparticles and that exhibits high…

We present a differentiable framework to adaptively compute 4D illumination conditions with respect to an object, for efficient, high-quality simultaneous acquisition of its shape and reflectance, with a unified spatial-angular structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huakeng Ding , Yaowen Chen , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu

We design freeform lenses refracting an arbitrarily given incident field into a given fixed direction. In the near field case, we study the existence of lenses refracting a given bright object into a predefined image. We also analyze the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Cristian E. Gutierrez , Ahmad Sabra

We present an object relighting system that allows an artist to select an object from an image and insert it into a target scene. Through simple interactions, the system can adjust illumination on the inserted object so that it appears…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Zicheng Liao , Kevin Karsch , Hongyi Zhang , David Forsyth

A formalism is introduced for the non-perturbative, purely numerical, solution of the reduced Rayleigh equation for the scattering of light from two-dimensional penetrable rough surfaces. As an example, we apply this formalism to study the…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-03 Tor Nordam , Paul Anton Letnes , Ingve Simonsen

Image relighting is to change the illumination of an image to a target illumination effect without known the original scene geometry, material information and illumination condition. We propose a novel outdoor scene relighting method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Xin Jin , Yannan Li , Ningning Liu , Xiaodong Li , Xianggang Jiang , Chaoen Xiao , Shiming Ge

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

In this work, we propose a CNN-based approach to estimate the spectral reflectance of a surface and the spectral power distribution of the light from a single RGB image of a V-shaped surface. Interreflections happening in a concave surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Rada Deeb , Joost Van De Weijer , Damien Muselet , Mathieu Hebert , Alain Tremeau

In the conventional approach to lens imaging, rays are used to map object points to image points. However, many students have a need to think of the image as a whole. To answer this need, lens imaging is reinterpreted as a superposition of…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-01-20 Sascha Grusche

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in reconstructing complex scenes with high fidelity. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle low-frequency reflections. It falls short when handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chen Gao , Yipeng Wang , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

The appearance of an object is significantly affected by the illumination conditions in the environment. This is more evident with strong reflective objects as they suffer from more dominant specular reflections, causing information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Samar M. Alsaleh , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Noemie Debroux , James K. Hahn

We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, and accepts an optional contextual photo looking in the opposite direction (e.g., the "selfie" camera on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eric Kee , Adam Pikielny , Kevin Blackburn-Matzen , Marc Levoy

The capability of color encoding the continuous sequence of views from a scene was demonstrated previously by the author (1990). In the present work, the scheme for this process is shown where white light from a black and white object is…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-20 J. J. Lunazzi

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

Modeling reflections from 2D images is essential for photorealistic rendering and novel view synthesis. Recent approaches enhance Gaussian primitives with reflection-related material attributes to enable physically based rendering (PBR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Jimin Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present a neural rendering-based method called NeRO for reconstructing the geometry and the BRDF of reflective objects from multiview images captured in an unknown environment. Multiview reconstruction of reflective objects is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiepeng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

With the proliferation of Wi-Fi devices in the environment, our surroundings are increasingly illuminated with low-level RF scatter. This scatter illuminates objects in the environment much like radar or LIDAR. We show that a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Michael Drob

Recovering the physical attributes of an object's appearance from its images captured under an unknown illumination is challenging yet essential for photo-realistic rendering. Recent approaches adopt the emerging implicit scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Youjia Zhang , Teng Xu , Junqing Yu , Yuteng Ye , Junle Wang , Yanqing Jing , Jingyi Yu , Wei Yang