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We present a simple yet powerful neural network that implicitly represents and renders 3D objects and scenes only from 2D observations. The network models 3D geometries as a general radiance field, which takes a set of 2D images with camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Alex Trevithick , Bo Yang

Light field (LF) cameras record both intensity and directions of light rays, and encode 3D scenes into 4D LF images. Recently, many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proposed for various LF image processing tasks. However, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Gaochang Wu , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Jingyi Yu , Yulan Guo

We introduce a novel depth estimation technique for multi-frame structured light setups using neural implicit representations of 3D space. Our approach employs a neural signed distance field (SDF), trained through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Rukun Qiao , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Hongbin Zha

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are able to reconstruct scenes with unprecedented fidelity, and various recent works have extended NeRF to handle dynamic scenes. A common approach to reconstruct such non-rigid scenes is through the use of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Keunhong Park , Utkarsh Sinha , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Sofien Bouaziz , Dan B Goldman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Steven M. Seitz

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a framework that represents a 3D scene in the weights of a fully connected neural network, known as the Multi-Layer Perception(MLP). The method was introduced for the task of novel view synthesis and is able…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Mohamed Debbagh

Light field (LF) representations aim to provide photo-realistic, free-viewpoint viewing experiences. However, the most popular LF representations are images from multiple views. Multi-view image-based representations generally need to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Xiang Zhang , Philip A. Chou , Ming-Ting Sun , Maolong Tang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

We introduce DoubleField, a novel framework combining the merits of both surface field and radiance field for high-fidelity human reconstruction and rendering. Within DoubleField, the surface field and radiance field are associated together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ruizhi Shao , Hongwen Zhang , He Zhang , Mingjia Chen , Yanpei Cao , Tao Yu , Yebin Liu

Reconstruction and intrinsic decomposition of scenes from captured imagery would enable many applications such as relighting and virtual object insertion. Recent NeRF based methods achieve impressive fidelity of 3D reconstruction, but bake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Shengyu Huang , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zan Gojcic , Wenzheng Chen , Sanja Fidler

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang

Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sida Peng , Xingang Pan , Nanxuan Zhao , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

Physically-based rendering (PBR) is key for immersive rendering effects used widely in the industry to showcase detailed realistic scenes from computer graphics assets. A well-known caveat is that producing the same is computationally heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jing Yang , Hanyuan Xiao , Wenbin Teng , Yunxuan Cai , Yajie Zhao

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) aims at reconstructing high-resolution LF images from their low-resolution counterparts. Although CNN-based methods have achieved remarkable performance in LF image SR, these methods cannot fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhengyu Liang , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Shilin Zhou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nan Luo , Chenglin Ye , Jiaxu Li , Gang Liu , Bo Wan , Di Wang , Lupeng Liu , Jun Xiao

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

Light field cameras capture the 3D information in a scene with a single exposure. This special feature makes light field cameras very appealing for a variety of applications: from post-capture refocus, to depth estimation and image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Mattia Rossi , Pascal Frossard

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang