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We consider the problem of high-dimensional light field reconstruction and develop a learning-based framework for spatial and angular super-resolution. Many current approaches either require disparity clues or restore the spatial and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Nan Meng , Hayden K. -H. So , Xing Sun , Edmund Y. Lam

Monte Carlo rendering of translucent objects with heterogeneous scattering properties is often expensive both in terms of memory and computation. If we do path tracing and use a high dynamic range lighting environment, the rendering becomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Thomson TG , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Henrik Wann Jensen

Physically based rendering of complex scenes can be prohibitively costly with a potentially unbounded and uneven distribution of complexity across the rendered image. The goal of an ideal level of detail (LoD) method is to make rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Steve Bako , Pradeep Sen , Anton Kaplanyan

Many machine learning models operate on images, but ignore the fact that images are 2D projections formed by 3D geometry interacting with light, in a process called rendering. Enabling ML models to understand image formation might be key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Wenzheng Chen , Jun Gao , Huan Ling , Edward J. Smith , Jaakko Lehtinen , Alec Jacobson , Sanja Fidler

In Light Field compression, graph-based coding is powerful to exploit signal redundancy along irregular shapes and obtains good energy compaction. However, apart from high time complexity to process high dimensional graphs, their graph…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Bach Gia Nguyen , Chanh Minh Tran , Tho Nguyen Duc , Tan Xuan Phan , Kamioka Eiji

Camera arrays provide spatial and angular information within a single snapshot. With refocusing methods, focal planes can be altered after exposure. In this letter, we propose a light field refocusing method to improve the imaging quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Yulan Guo , Chao Xiao , Wei An

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

The Light Field Raindrop Removal (LFRR) aims to restore the background areas obscured by raindrops in the Light Field (LF). Compared with single image, the LF provides more abundant information by regularly and densely sampling the scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dong Jing , Shuo Zhang , Song Chang , Youfang Lin

This paper presents a learning-based approach to synthesize the view from an arbitrary camera position given a sparse set of images. A key challenge for this novel view synthesis arises from the reconstruction process, when the views from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Nan Meng , Kai Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

We present a differentiable rendering framework for material and lighting estimation from multi-view images and a reconstructed geometry. In the framework, we represent scene lightings as the Neural Incident Light Field (NeILF) and material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yao Yao , Jingyang Zhang , Jingbo Liu , Yihang Qu , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Recent years have witnessed the great advances of deep neural networks (DNNs) in light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR). However, existing DNN-based LF image SR methods are developed on a single fixed degradation (e.g., bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yingqian Wang , Zhengyu Liang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Depth of Field (DoF) in games is usually achieved as a post-process effect by blurring pixels in the sharp rasterized image based on the defined focus plane. This paper describes a novel real-time DoF technique that uses ray tracing with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Nathan Biette , Anand Bhojan

This paper introduces LLDif, a novel diffusion-based facial expression recognition (FER) framework tailored for extremely low-light (LL) environments. Images captured under such conditions often suffer from low brightness and significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated significant potential for representing 3D scene appearances as implicit neural networks, enabling the synthesis of high-fidelity novel views. However, the lengthy training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Tong Wang , Shuichi Kurabayashi

The light field faithfully records the spatial and angular configurations of the scene, which facilitates a wide range of imaging possibilities. In this work, we propose an LF synthesis algorithm which renders high quality novel LF views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Jie Chen , Lap-Pui Chau , Junhui Hou

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

Light field (LF) imaging has gained significant attention due to its recent success in 3-dimensional (3D) displaying and rendering as well as augmented and virtual reality usage. Nonetheless, because of the two extra dimensions, LFs are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Eisa Hedayati , Timothy C. Havens , Jeremy P. Bos

Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) photo has gradually become the standard configuration in advanced imaging devices. The new standard unveils many issues in existing approaches for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), especially in dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chongyi Li , Chun-Le Guo , Man Zhou , Zhexin Liang , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous relighting and novel view synthesis of a complex scene from multi-view images with a limited number of light sources. We propose an analysis-synthesis approach called Relit-NeuLF.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhong Li , Liangchen Song , Zhang Chen , Xiangyu Du , Lele Chen , Junsong Yuan , Yi Xu

Common capture low-light scenes are challenging for most computer vision techniques, including Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Vanilla NeRF is viewer-centred simplifies the rendering process only as light emission from 3D locations in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Ziteng Cui , Lin Gu , Xiao Sun , Xianzheng Ma , Yu Qiao , Tatsuya Harada