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Decoupling lighting from geometry using unconstrained photo collections is notoriously challenging. Solving it would benefit many users as creating complex 3D assets takes days of manual labor. Many previous works have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Joanna Kaleta , Kacper Kania , Tomasz Trzcinski , Marek Kowalski

Critical aspects of computational imaging systems, such as experimental design and image priors, can be optimized through deep networks formed by the unrolled iterations of classical model-based reconstructions (termed physics-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Michael Kellman , Kevin Zhang , Jon Tamir , Emrah Bostan , Michael Lustig , Laura Waller

Achieving consistent color reproduction across multiple cameras is essential for seamless image fusion and Image Processing Pipeline (ISP) compatibility in modern devices, but it is a challenging task due to variations in sensors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peter Grönquist , Stepan Tulyakov , Dengxin Dai

One of the key limitations of Molecular Dynamics simulations is the computational intractability of sampling protein conformational landscapes associated with either large system size or long timescales. To overcome this bottleneck, we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-09 Zahra Shamsi , Kevin J. Cheng , Diwakar Shukla

We found that enforcing guidance throughout the sampling process is often counterproductive due to the model-fitting issue, where samples are 'tuned' to match the classifier's parameters rather than generalizing the expected condition. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Anh-Dung Dinh , Daochang Liu , Chang Xu

We introduce LumiNet, a novel architecture that leverages generative models and latent intrinsic representations for effective lighting transfer. Given a source image and a target lighting image, LumiNet synthesizes a relit version of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xiaoyan Xing , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers , Anand Bhattad

In this paper, we evaluate dimensionality reduction methods in terms of difficulty in estimating visual information on original images from dimensionally reduced ones. Recently, dimensionality reduction has been receiving attention as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Masaki Kitayama , Hitoshi Kiya

In this paper we revisit some of the fundamental premises for a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to self-learning traffic lights. We propose RLight, a combination of choices that offers robust performance and good generalization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Sierk Kanis , Laurens Samson , Daan Bloembergen , Tim Bakker

We present a method to estimate lighting from a single image of an indoor scene. Previous work has used an environment map representation that does not account for the localized nature of indoor lighting. Instead, we represent lighting as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Marc-André Gardner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

The advancement of generative radiance fields has pushed the boundary of 3D-aware image synthesis. Motivated by the observation that a 3D object should look realistic from multiple viewpoints, these methods introduce a multi-view constraint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Xingang Pan , Xudong Xu , Chen Change Loy , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai

Few-shot classification aims to learn to classify new object categories well using only a few labeled examples. Transferring feature representations from other models is a popular approach for solving few-shot classification problems. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chun-Nam Yu , Yi Xie

We introduce LightIt, a method for explicit illumination control for image generation. Recent generative methods lack lighting control, which is crucial to numerous artistic aspects of image generation such as setting the overall mood or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Peter Kocsis , Julien Philip , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Matthias Nießner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy

Global illumination combines direct and indirect lighting to create realistic lighting effects, bringing virtual scenes closer to reality. Static global illumination is a crucial component of virtual scene rendering, leveraging…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junke Zhu , Zehan Wu , Qixing Zhang , Cheng Liao , Zhangjin Huang

A central challenge in data visualization is to understand which data samples are required to generate an image of a data set in which the relevant information is encoded. In this work, we make a first step towards answering the question of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Sebastian Weiss , Mustafa Işık , Justus Thies , Rüdiger Westermann

Controlling illumination in images is essential for photography and visual content creation. While closed-source models have demonstrated impressive illumination control, open-source alternatives either require heavy control inputs like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nishit Anand , Manan Suri , Christopher Metzler , Dinesh Manocha , Ramani Duraiswami

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

Randomly sampling points on surfaces is an essential operation in geometry processing. This sampling is computationally straightforward on explicit meshes, but it is much more difficult on other shape representations, such as widely-used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Selena Ling , Abhishek Madan , Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

Traffic signal control is of critical importance for the effective use of transportation infrastructures. The rapid increase of vehicle traffic and changes in traffic patterns make traffic signal control more and more challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Xingshuai Huang , Di Wu , Michael Jenkin , Benoit Boulet

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

The abundant spatial and angular information from light fields has allowed the development of multiple disparity estimation approaches. However, the acquisition of light fields requires high storage and processing cost, limiting the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Emmanuel Martinez , Edwin Vargas , Henry Arguello