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Fast, reliable shape reconstruction is an essential ingredient in many computer vision applications. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that photorealistic novel view synthesis is within reach, but was gated by performance requirements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leonid Keselman , Martial Hebert

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

Physics-based differentiable rendering has emerged as a powerful technique in computer graphics and vision, with a broad range of applications in solving inverse rendering tasks. At its core, differentiable rendering enables the computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yunfan Zeng , Guangyan Cai , Shuang Zhao

We present a differentiable volume rendering solution that provides differentiability of all continuous parameters of the volume rendering process. This differentiable renderer is used to steer the parameters towards a setting with an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sebastian Weiss , Rüdiger Westermann

3D sketches are widely used for visually representing the 3D shape and structure of objects or scenes. However, the creation of 3D sketch often requires users to possess professional artistic skills. Existing research efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yibo Zhang , Lihong Wang , Changqing Zou , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

We consider the challenging problem of predicting intrinsic object properties from a single image by exploiting differentiable renderers. Many previous learning-based approaches for inverse graphics adopt rasterization-based renderers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Wenzheng Chen , Joey Litalien , Jun Gao , Zian Wang , Clement Fuji Tsang , Sameh Khamis , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

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

Rendering and inverse rendering are pivotal tasks in both computer vision and graphics. The rendering equation is the core of the two tasks, as an ideal conditional distribution transfer function from intrinsic properties to RGB images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zhifei Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Wenhang Ge , Leyi Wu , Dongyu Yan , Jing He , Luozhou Wang , Lu Zeng , Shunsi Zhang , Yingcong Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled high-fidelity virtualization with fast rendering and optimization for novel view synthesis. On the other hand, triangle mesh models still remain a popular choice for surface reconstruction but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xinpeng Liu , Fumio Okura

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

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 present a novel 3D pose refinement approach based on differentiable rendering for objects of arbitrary categories in the wild. In contrast to previous methods, we make two main contributions: First, instead of comparing real-world images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Alexander Grabner , Yaming Wang , Peizhao Zhang , Peihong Guo , Tong Xiao , Peter Vajda , Peter M. Roth , Vincent Lepetit

We present a suite of techniques for jointly optimizing triangle meshes and shading models to match the appearance of reference scenes. This capability has a number of uses, including appearance-preserving simplification of extremely…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jon Hasselgren , Jacob Munkberg , Jaakko Lehtinen , Miika Aittala , Samuli Laine

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

In this study, we address the challenge of 3D scene structure recovery from monocular depth estimation. While traditional depth estimation methods leverage labeled datasets to directly predict absolute depth, recent advancements advocate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chi Zhang , Wei Yin , Gang Yu , Zhibin Wang , Tao Chen , Bin Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chunhua Shen

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…

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

Searching for a unified scene representation remains a research challenge in computer graphics. Traditional mesh-based representations are unsuitable for dense, fuzzy elements, and introduce additional complexity for filtering and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yang Zhou , Songyin Wu , Ling-Qi Yan

Differentiable rendering is a very successful technique that applies to a Single-View 3D Reconstruction. Current renderers use losses based on pixels between a rendered image of some 3D reconstructed object and ground-truth images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Nikola Zubić , Pietro Liò