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In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

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

Estimating surface reflectance (BRDF) is one key component for complete 3D scene capture, with wide applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, and human computer interaction. Prior work is either limited to controlled environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Kihwan Kim , Jinwei Gu , Stephen Tyree , Pavlo Molchanov , Matthias Nießner , Jan Kautz

Current trends in the computer graphics community propose leveraging the massive parallel computational power of GPUs to accelerate physically based simulations. Collision detection and solving is a fundamental part of this process. It is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hugo Bertiche , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

The estimation of the optical properties of a material from RGB-images is an important but extremely ill-posed problem in Computer Graphics. While recent works have successfully approached this problem even from just a single photograph,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Raquel Vidaurre , Dan Casas , Elena Garces , Jorge Lopez-Moreno

We develop a method that recovers the surface, materials, and illumination of a scene from its posed multi-view images. In contrast to prior work, it does not require any additional data and can handle glossy objects or bright lighting. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yue Fan , Ningjing Fan , Ivan Skorokhodov , Oleg Voynov , Savva Ignatyev , Evgeny Burnaev , Peter Wonka , Yiqun Wang

We present a massively parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and optical absorption spectra of condensed and molecular systems, starting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Yu Jin , Giulia Galli , Marco Govoni

We learn a latent space for easy capture, consistent interpolation, and efficient reproduction of visual material appearance. When users provide a photo of a stationary natural material captured under flashlight illumination, first it is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Philipp Henzler , Valentin Deschaintre , Niloy J. Mitra , Tobias Ritschel

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

We present a numerical framework for solving neural field equations on surfaces using Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation and quadrature. Neural field models describe the evolution of macroscopic brain activity, but modeling studies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sage B Shaw , Zachary P Kilpatrick , Daniele Avitabile

Heterogeneous computing environments combining CPU and GPU resources provide a great boost to large-scale scientific computing applications. Code generation utilities that partition the work into CPU and GPU tasks while considering data…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Eric Heisler , Siddharth Saurav , Aadesh Deshmukh , Sandip Mazumder , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan , Hari Sundar

We tackle the ill-posed inverse rendering problem in 3D reconstruction with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approach informed by Physics-Based Rendering (PBR) theory, named PBR-NeRF. Our method addresses a key limitation in most NeRF and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sean Wu , Shamik Basu , Tim Broedermann , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

Neural bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) have emerged as popular material representations for enhancing realism in physically-based rendering. Yet their importance sampling remains a significant challenge. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Liwen Wu , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Hao Tan , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Haolin Lu , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Fast computation of singular value decomposition (SVD) is of great interest in various machine learning tasks. Recently, SVD methods based on randomized linear algebra have shown significant speedup in this regime. This paper attempts to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Yuechao Lu , Fumihiko Ino , Yasuyuki Matsushita

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated computational framework for reconstructing high resolution (HR) LF images under a mixed Gaussian-Impulse noise condition. The main focus is on developing a high-performance approach considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Trung-Hieu Tran , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

In this paper we apply the boundary elements method (BEM) and the dual reciprocity boundary elements method (DRBEM) for the numerical solution of two-dimensional time-fractional partial differential equations (TFPDEs). The fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Peyman Alipour

The long runtime of high-fidelity partial differential equation (PDE) solvers makes them unsuitable for time-critical applications. We propose to accelerate PDE solvers using reduced-order modeling (ROM). Whereas prior ROM approaches reduce…

Inverse rendering seeks to estimate scene characteristics from a set of data images. The dominant approach is based on differential rendering using Monte-Carlo. Algorithms as such usually rely on a forward model and use an iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ido Czerninski , Yoav Y. Schechner

In this work, we propose PolarBEV for vision-based uneven BEV representation learning. To adapt to the foreshortening effect of camera imaging, we rasterize the BEV space both angularly and radially, and introduce polar embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhi Liu , Shaoyu Chen , Xiaojie Guo , Xinggang Wang , Tianheng Cheng , Hongmei Zhu , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Yi Zhang

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) reduces computational costs in CFD by concentrating resolution where needed, but efficiently embedding complex, non-aligned geometries on GPUs remains challenging. We present a GPU-native algorithm for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer E. Essel , Pierre E. Sullivan