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This paper addresses the challenges of designing mesh convolution neural networks for 3D mesh dense prediction. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image dense prediction tasks, directly applying or extending these…

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There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

We suggest a rasterization pipeline tailored towards the need of head-mounted displays (HMD), where latency and field-of-view requirements pose new challenges beyond those of traditional desktop displays. Instead of rendering and warping…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Tobias Ritschel , Sebastian Friston , Anthony Steed

We propose Differentiable Stereopsis, a multi-view stereo approach that reconstructs shape and texture from few input views and noisy cameras. We pair traditional stereopsis and modern differentiable rendering to build an end-to-end model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Goel , Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jan Bednařík , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Differentiable rendering is a technique used in an important emerging class of visual computing applications that involves representing a 3D scene as a model that is trained from 2D images using gradient descent. Recent works (e.g. 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Fan Chen , Ruofan Liang , Pawan Kumar Sanjaya , Nandita Vijaykumar

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

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

Differentiable renderers provide a direct mathematical link between an object's 3D representation and images of that object. In this work, we develop an approximate differentiable renderer for a compact, interpretable representation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Leonid Keselman , Martial Hebert

We present a method for generating high-quality watertight manifold meshes from multi-view input images. Existing volumetric rendering methods are robust in optimization but tend to generate noisy meshes with poor topology. Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xinyue Wei , Fanbo Xiang , Sai Bi , Anpei Chen , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Zexiang Xu , Hao Su

Primitive-based splatting methods like 3D Gaussian Splatting have revolutionized novel view synthesis with real-time rendering. However, their point-based representations remain incompatible with mesh-based pipelines that power AR/VR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jan Held , Sanghyun Son , Renaud Vandeghen , Daniel Rebain , Matheus Gadelha , Yi Zhou , Anthony Cioppa , Ming C. Lin , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Differentiable rendering aims to compute the derivative of the image rendering function with respect to the rendering parameters. This paper presents a novel algorithm for 6-DoF pose estimation through gradient-based optimization using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ramchander Rao Bhaskara , Roshan Thomas Eapen , Manoranjan Majji

Computing the gradients of a rendering process is paramount for diverse applications in computer vision and graphics. However, accurate computation of these gradients is challenging due to discontinuities and rendering approximations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Tomas Simon , Gabriel Schwartz , He Wen , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

We introduce PolyDiff, the first diffusion-based approach capable of directly generating realistic and diverse 3D polygonal meshes. In contrast to methods that use alternate 3D shape representations (e.g. implicit representations), our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonio Alliegro , Yawar Siddiqui , Tatiana Tommasi , Matthias Nießner

Differentiable rendering (DR) enables various computer graphics and computer vision applications through gradient-based optimization with derivatives of the rendering equation. Most rasterization-based approaches are built on…

While deep learning methods have achieved impressive success in many vision benchmarks, it remains difficult to understand and explain the representations and decisions of these models. Though vision models are typically trained on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Benjamin Beilharz , Thomas S. A. Wallis

Differentiable rendering is a technique that aims to invert the rendering process to enable optimizing rendering parameters from a set of images. In this article, we present a differentiable volume rendering solution called DiffTetVR for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Christoph Neuhauser

Capturing and labeling real-world 3D data is laborious and time-consuming, which makes it costly to train strong 3D models. To address this issue, recent works present a simple method by generating randomized 3D scenes without simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lanxiao Li , Michael Heizmann