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Traditional inverse rendering techniques are based on textured meshes, which naturally adapts to modern graphics pipelines, but costly differentiable multi-bounce Monte Carlo (MC) ray tracing poses challenges for modeling global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiakai Sun , Weijing Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang , Tianyi Chu , Guangyuan Li , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing

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…

BRDF models are ubiquitous tools for the representation of material appearance. However, there is now an astonishingly large number of different models in practical use. Both a lack of BRDF model standardisation across implementations found…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alejandro Sztrajman , Jaroslav Krivanek , Alexander Wilkie , Tim Weyrich

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has exhibited significant success in novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, etc. However, since no physical reflection is considered in its rendering pipeline, NeRF mistakes the reflection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Junyi Zeng , Chong Bao , Rui Chen , Zilong Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

We address the problem of recovering the shape and spatially-varying reflectance of an object from multi-view images (and their camera poses) of an object illuminated by one unknown lighting condition. This enables the rendering of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xiuming Zhang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Paul Debevec , William T. Freeman , Jonathan T. Barron

Recent neural rendering methods have demonstrated accurate view interpolation by predicting volumetric density and color with a neural network. Although such volumetric representations can be supervised on static and dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Julian Knodt , Joe Bartusek , Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance of objects from images. Despite recent progress, existing methods often produces inaccurate reconstructions that are sensitive to ambient illumination conditions. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Jinnyeong Kim , Hyunwoo Kang , Seung-Hwan Baek

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

We propose a deep inverse rendering framework for indoor scenes. From a single RGB image of an arbitrary indoor scene, we create a complete scene reconstruction, estimating shape, spatially-varying lighting, and spatially-varying,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Zhengqin Li , Mohammad Shafiei , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Manmohan Chandraker

This study proposes a neural disparity field (NDF) that establishes an implicit, continuous representation of scene disparity based on a neural field and an iterative approach to address the inverse problem of NDF reconstruction from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ligen Shi , Chang Liu , Xing Zhao , Jun Qiu

Image-based lighting (IBL) is a widely used technique that renders objects using a high dynamic range image or environment map. However, aggregating the irradiance at the object's surface is computationally expensive, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shizhan Zhu , Shunsuke Saito , Aljaz Bozic , Carlos Aliaga , Trevor Darrell , Christoph Lassner

Modeling non-Lambertian effects such as facial specularity leads to a more realistic 3D Morphable Face Model. Existing works build parametric models for diffuse and specular albedo using Light Stage data. However, only diffuse and specular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuxuan Han , Zhibo Wang , Feng Xu

Texture, highlights, and shading are some of many visual cues that allow humans to perceive material appearance in single pictures. Yet, recovering spatially-varying bi-directional reflectance distribution functions (SVBRDFs) from a single…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Valentin Deschaintre , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis , Adrien Bousseau

Inverse rendering methods that account for global illumination are becoming more popular, but current methods require evaluating and automatically differentiating millions of path integrals by tracing multiple light bounces, which remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Jan Novák , Fabrice Rousselle , Matthias Zwicker

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

Reconstruction and intrinsic decomposition of scenes from captured imagery would enable many applications such as relighting and virtual object insertion. Recent NeRF based methods achieve impressive fidelity of 3D reconstruction, but bake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Shengyu Huang , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zan Gojcic , Wenzheng Chen , Sanja Fidler

We propose IBL-NeRF, which decomposes the neural radiance fields (NeRF) of large-scale indoor scenes into intrinsic components. Recent approaches further decompose the baked radiance of the implicit volume into intrinsic components such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Changwoon Choi , Juhyeon Kim , Young Min Kim

Existing inverse rendering combined with neural rendering methods can only perform editable novel view synthesis on object-specific scenes, while we present intrinsic neural radiance fields, dubbed IntrinsicNeRF, which introduce intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Weicai Ye , Shuo Chen , Chong Bao , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Accurate reconstruction and relighting of glossy objects remains a longstanding challenge, as object shape, material properties, and illumination are inherently difficult to disentangle. Existing neural rendering approaches often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars