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In this paper we present a method for the estimation of the color of the illuminant in RAW images. The method includes a Convolutional Neural Network that has been specially designed to produce multiple local estimates. A multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Simone Bianco , Claudio Cusano , Raimondo Schettini

We propose a methodology for robust, real-time place recognition using an imaging lidar, which yields image-quality high-resolution 3D point clouds. Utilizing the intensity readings of an imaging lidar, we project the point cloud and obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Fabio Duarte , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Given a set of images of a scene, the re-rendering of this scene from novel views and lighting conditions is an important and challenging problem in Computer Vision and Graphics. On the one hand, most existing works in Computer Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkuehler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

A 3D digital scene contains many components: lights, materials and geometries, interacting to reach the desired appearance. Staging such a scene is time-consuming and requires both artistic and technical skills. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Kai Yan , Fujun Luan , MiloŠ HaŠAn , Thibault Groueix , Valentin Deschaintre , Shuang Zhao

Most of the state-of-the-art indirect visual SLAM methods are based on the sparse point features. However, it is hard to find enough reliable point features for state estimation in the case of low-textured scenes. Line features are abundant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Xin Ma , Xinwu Liang

The three areas of realistic forward rendering, per-pixel inverse rendering, and generative image synthesis may seem like separate and unrelated sub-fields of graphics and vision. However, recent work has demonstrated improved estimation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zheng Zeng , Valentin Deschaintre , Iliyan Georgiev , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Yiwei Hu , Fujun Luan , Ling-Qi Yan , Miloš Hašan

Three-dimensional (3D) object reconstruction based on differentiable rendering (DR) is an active research topic in computer vision. DR-based methods minimize the difference between the rendered and target images by optimizing both the shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chunyu Li , Taisuke Hashimoto , Eiichi Matsumoto , Hiroharu Kato

We propose a neural approach for estimating spatially varying light selection distributions to improve importance sampling in Monte Carlo rendering, particularly for complex scenes with many light sources. Our method uses a neural network…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pedro Figueiredo , Qihao He , Steve Bako , Nima Khademi Kalantari

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Decomposing an object's appearance into representations of its materials and the surrounding illumination is difficult, even when the object's 3D shape is known beforehand. This problem is especially challenging for diffuse objects: it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Dor Verbin , Ben Mildenhall , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Todd Zickler , Pratul P. Srinivasan

Real-time global illumination is key to enabling more dynamic and physically realistic worlds in performance-critical applications such as games or any other applications with real-time constraints.Hardware-accelerated ray tracing in modern…

We present a method for relighting 3D reconstructions of large room-scale environments. Existing solutions for 3D scene relighting often require solving under-determined or ill-conditioned inverse rendering problems, and are as such unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaoyan Xing , Philipp Henzler , Junhwa Hur , Runze Li , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

Physics-based inverse rendering enables joint optimization of shape, material, and lighting based on captured 2D images. To ensure accurate reconstruction, using a light model that closely resembles the captured environment is essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jingwang Ling , Ruihan Yu , Feng Xu , Chun Du , Shuang Zhao

Physically based rendering is a discipline in computer graphics which aims at reproducing certain light and material appearances that occur in the real world. Complex scenes can be difficult to compute for rendering algorithms. This paper…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Elias Brugger , Christian Freude , Michael Wimmer

In view synthesis, a neural radiance field approximates underlying density and radiance fields based on a sparse set of scene pictures. To generate a pixel of a novel view, it marches a ray through the pixel and computes a weighted sum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Nikita Morozov , Denis Rakitin , Oleg Desheulin , Dmitry Vetrov , Kirill Struminsky

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan

We propose a novel method for adjusting luminance for multi-exposure image fusion. For the adjustment, two novel scene segmentation approaches based on luminance distribution are also proposed. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

The task of recalibrating the illumination settings in an image to a target configuration is known as relighting. Relighting techniques have potential applications in digital photography, gaming industry and in augmented reality. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Densen Puthussery , Hrishikesh P. S. , Melvin Kuriakose , Jiji C.

We present a novel Relightable Neural Renderer (RNR) for simultaneous view synthesis and relighting using multi-view image inputs. Existing neural rendering (NR) does not explicitly model the physical rendering process and hence has limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhang Chen , Anpei Chen , Guli Zhang , Chengyuan Wang , Yu Ji , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , Jingyi Yu