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Interactive global illumination remains a challenge in radiometrically- and geometrically-complex scenes. Specialized sampling strategies are effective for specular and near-specular transport because the scattering has relatively low…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zander Majercik , Thomas Müller , Alexander Keller , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Morgan McGuire

Dynamic scene representation and reconstruction have undergone transformative advances in recent years, catalyzed by breakthroughs in neural radiance fields and 3D Gaussian splatting techniques. While initially developed for static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jinlong Fan , Xuepu Zeng , Jing Zhang , Mingming Gong , Yuxiang Yang , Dacheng Tao

We consider the challenging problem of outdoor lighting estimation for the goal of photorealistic virtual object insertion into photographs. Existing works on outdoor lighting estimation typically simplify the scene lighting into an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , David Acuna , Jan Kautz , Sanja Fidler

In nighttime circumstances, it is challenging for individuals and machines to perceive their surroundings. While prevailing image restoration methods adeptly handle singular forms of degradation, they falter when confronted with intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Yujiu Yang

Simultaneously localizing camera poses and constructing Gaussian radiance fields in dynamic scenes establish a crucial bridge between 2D images and the 4D real world. Instead of removing dynamic objects as distractors and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yanyan Li , Youxu Fang , Zunjie Zhu , Kunyi Li , Yong Ding , Federico Tombari

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) for surface representation are commonly generated offline and subsequently loaded into interactive applications like games. Since they are not updated every frame, they only provide a rigid surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Neural rendering algorithms have revolutionized computer graphics, yet their impact on real-time rendering under arbitrary lighting conditions remains limited due to strict latency constraints in practical applications. The key challenge…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yijie Deng , Lei Han , Lu Fang

We contribute several practical extensions to the probe based irradiance-field-with-visibility representation to improve image quality, constant and asymptotic performance, memory efficiency, and artist control. We developed these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Zander Majercik , Adam Marrs , Josef Spjut , Morgan McGuire

Ghost imaging (GI) lidar, as a novel remote sensing technique,has been receiving increasing interest in recent years. By combining pulse-compression technique and coherent detection with GI, we propose a new lidar system called…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 Chenjin Deng , Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Integrating a foreground object into a background scene with illumination harmonization is an important but challenging task in computer vision and augmented reality community. Existing methods mainly focus on foreground and background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zhongyun Bao , Chengjiang Long , Gang Fu , Daquan Liu , Yuanzhen Li , Jiaming Wu , Chunxia Xiao

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

Efficiently calculating global illumination has always been one of the greatest challenges in computer graphics. Algorithms for approximating global illumination have always struggled to run in realtime for fully dynamic scenes, and have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Rouli Freeman , Alexander Sannikov , Adrian Margel

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

Full-image relighting remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of collecting large-scale structured paired data, the difficulty of maintaining physical plausibility, and the limited generalizability imposed by data-driven priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhexin Liang , Zhaoxi Chen , Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Tengfei Wang , Xingang Pan

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

There is a general expectation that robots should operate in urban environments often consisting of potentially dynamic entities including people, furniture and automobiles. Dynamic objects pose challenges to visual SLAM algorithms by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pushyami Kaveti , Hanumant Singh

We present a technique to reduce the dynamic range of an HDRI lighting environment map in an efficient, energy-preserving manner by spreading out the light of concentrated light sources. This allows us to display a reasonable approximation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Paul Debevec , Chloe LeGendre

This paper presents a 3D Gaussian Inverse Rendering (GIR) method, employing 3D Gaussian representations to effectively factorize the scene into material properties, light, and geometry. The key contributions lie in three-fold. We compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yahao Shi , Yanmin Wu , Chenming Wu , Xing Liu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Jian Zhang , Bin Zhou , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang