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BRDF models are ubiquitous tools for the representation of material appearance. However, there is now an astonishingly large number of different models in practical use. Both a lack of BRDF model standardisation across implementations found…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alejandro Sztrajman , Jaroslav Krivanek , Alexander Wilkie , Tim Weyrich

Accurate BRDF acquisition is essential for realistic rendering, but dense gonioreflectometer measurements are slow and expensive. We study how to select a small set of BRDF measurements that is most informative for reconstructing material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 W. Cao , D. Jönsson , Z. Huang , J. Unger

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

Bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) are pervasively used in computer graphics to produce realistic physically-based appearance. In recent years, several works explored using neural networks to represent BRDFs, taking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiahui Fan , Beibei Wang , Miloš Hašan , Jian Yang , Ling-Qi Yan

We present a technique for estimating the shape and reflectance of an object in terms of its surface normals and spatially-varying BRDF. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under fixed view-point and varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

We present a method for the accurate 3D reconstruction of partly-symmetric objects. We build on the strengths of recent advances in neural reconstruction and rendering such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). A major shortcoming of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Eldar Insafutdinov , Dylan Campbell , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of objects that exhibit spatially-varying reflectance. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under a fixed view-point and varying illumination, i.e., the setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C Sankaranarayanan

In this paper we demonstrate robust estimation of the model parameters of a fully-linear data-driven BRDF model from a reflectance map under known natural lighting. To regularize the estimation of the model parameters, we leverage the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Victoria L. Cooper , James C. Bieron , Pieter Peers

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

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , David Forsyth

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

We present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based solution for modeling physically plausible spatially varying surface reflectance functions (SVBRDF) from a single photograph of a planar material sample under unknown natural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiao Li , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Xin Tong

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have achieved impressive view synthesis results by learning an implicit volumetric representation from multi-view images. To project the implicit representation into an image, NeRF employs volume rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Y. Wang , J. Xu , Y. Zeng , Y. Gong

We present a new method for estimating the Neural Reflectance Field (NReF) of an object from a set of posed multi-view images under unknown lighting. NReF represents 3D geometry and appearance of objects in a disentangled manner, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

Capturing the shape and spatially-varying appearance (SVBRDF) of an object from images is a challenging task that has applications in both computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based approaches often need a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Kihwan Kim , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Jan Kautz

We introduce the physically based neural bidirectional reflectance distribution function (PBNBRDF), a novel, continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately reconstructs real-world materials…

Recent work has demonstrated that deep learning approaches can successfully be used to recover accurate estimates of the spatially-varying BRDF (SVBRDF) of a surface from as little as a single image. Closer inspection reveals, however, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Louis-Philippe Asselin , Denis Laurendeau , Jean-François Lalonde

Inverse rendering seeks to reconstruct both geometry and spatially varying BRDFs (SVBRDFs) from captured images. To address the inherent ill-posedness of inverse rendering, basis BRDF representations are commonly used, modeling SVBRDFs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Seokjun Choi , Seung-Hwan Baek