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We propose a material appearance modeling neural network for visualizing plausible, spatially-varying materials under diverse view and lighting conditions, utilizing only a single photograph of a material under co-located light and view as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jay Idema , Pieter Peers

In this paper, we introduce a technique to estimate measured BRDFs from a sparse set of samples. Our approach offers accurate BRDF reconstructions that are generalizable to new materials. This opens the door to BDRF reconstructions from a…

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Traditional physically-based material models rely on analytically derived bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs), typically by considering statistics of micro-primitives such as facets, flakes, or spheres, sometimes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zixuan Li , Zixiong Wang , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

Reconstructing materials in the real world has always been a difficult problem in computer graphics. Accurately reconstructing the material in the real world is critical in the field of realistic rendering. Traditionally, materials in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Zhiyao Luo , Hongnan Chen

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

Graphics pipelines require physically-based rendering (PBR) materials, yet current 3D content generation approaches are built on RGB models. We propose to model the PBR image distribution directly, avoiding photometric inaccuracies in RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shimon Vainer , Mark Boss , Mathias Parger , Konstantin Kutsy , Dante De Nigris , Ciara Rowles , Nicolas Perony , Simon Donné

Efficient and accurate measurement of the bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) plays a key role in high quality image rendering and physically accurate sensor simulation. However, obtaining the reflectance properties of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wen Cao

Material creation and reconstruction are crucial for appearance modeling but traditionally require significant time and expertise from artists. While recent methods leverage visual foundation models to synthesize PBR materials from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhi Ying , Boxiang Rong , Jingyu Wang , Maoyuan Xu

We present billboard Splatting (BBSplat) - a novel approach for novel view synthesis based on textured geometric primitives. BBSplat represents the scene as a set of optimizable textured planar primitives with learnable RGB textures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Carolin Schmitt , Božidar Antić , Andrei Neculai , Joo Ho Lee , Andreas Geiger

The capability to detect boulders on the surface of small bodies is beneficial for vision-based applications such as navigation and hazard detection during critical operations. This task is challenging due to the wide assortment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Mattia Pugliatti , Francesco Topputo

Artistic authoring of 3D environments is a laborious enterprise that also requires skilled content creators. There have been impressive improvements in using machine learning to address different aspects of generating 3D content, such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Sean Memery , Osmar Cedron , Kartic Subr

Inverse rendering seeks to reconstruct both geometry and spatially varying BRDFs (SVBRDFs) from captured images. To address the inherent ill-posedness of inverse rendering, basis BRDF representations are commonly used, modeling SVBRDFs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Seokjun Choi , Seung-Hwan Baek

The estimation of the optical properties of a material from RGB-images is an important but extremely ill-posed problem in Computer Graphics. While recent works have successfully approached this problem even from just a single photograph,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Raquel Vidaurre , Dan Casas , Elena Garces , Jorge Lopez-Moreno

We propose a novel compact and efficient neural BRDF offering highly versatile material representation, yet with very-light memory and neural computation consumption towards achieving real-time rendering. The results in Figure 1, rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yishun Dou , Zhong Zheng , Qiaoqiao Jin , Bingbing Ni , Yugang Chen , Junxiang Ke

We formulate SVBRDF estimation from photographs as a diffusion task. To model the distribution of spatially varying materials, we first train a novel unconditional SVBRDF diffusion backbone model on a large set of 312,165 synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sam Sartor , Pieter Peers

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

Accurately evaluating the quality of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models is essential for photo-realistic rendering. Traditional BRDF-space metrics often employ numerical error measures that fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Behnaz Kavoosighafi , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Saghi Hajisharif , Ehsan Miandji , Jonas Unger

In this paper, we develop a method for estimating and clustering two-dimensional spectral density functions (2D-SDFs) for spatial data from multiple subregions. We use a common set of adaptive basis functions to explain the similarities…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-29 Tianbo Chen , Ying Sun , Mehdi Maadooliat