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While neural radiance fields (NeRF) led to a breakthrough in photorealistic novel view synthesis, handling mirroring surfaces still denotes a particular challenge as they introduce severe inconsistencies in the scene representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Leif Van Holland , Michael Weinmann , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Realistic face rendering from multi-view images is beneficial to various computer vision and graphics applications. Due to the complex spatially-varying reflectance properties and geometry characteristics of faces, however, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Mingwu Zheng , Haiyu Zhang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

We present a simple yet powerful neural network that implicitly represents and renders 3D objects and scenes only from 2D observations. The network models 3D geometries as a general radiance field, which takes a set of 2D images with camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Alex Trevithick , Bo Yang

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction has emerged as a popular paradigm for multi-view 3D reconstruction. Unlike traditional multi-view stereo approaches, the neural implicit surface-based methods leverage neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qianyi Wu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Kejie Li , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qianyi Wu , Xian Liu , Yuedong Chen , Kejie Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

We present a method for the accurate 3D reconstruction of partly-symmetric objects. We build on the strengths of recent advances in neural reconstruction and rendering such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). A major shortcoming of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Eldar Insafutdinov , Dylan Campbell , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Accurate BRDF acquisition is essential for realistic rendering, but dense gonioreflectometer measurements are slow and expensive. We study how to select a small set of BRDF measurements that is most informative for reconstructing material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 W. Cao , D. Jönsson , Z. Huang , J. Unger

We propose INFAMOUS-NeRF, an implicit morphable face model that introduces hypernetworks to NeRF to improve the representation power in the presence of many training subjects. At the same time, INFAMOUS-NeRF resolves the classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andrew Hou , Feng Liu , Zhiyuan Ren , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

We introduce Differentiable Neural Radiosity, a novel method of representing the solution of the differential rendering equation using a neural network. Inspired by neural radiosity techniques, we minimize the norm of the residual of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Saeed Hadadan , Matthias Zwicker

Implicit surfaces via neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown surprising accuracy in surface reconstruction. Despite their success in reconstructing richly textured surfaces, existing methods struggle with planar regions with weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Albert Gassol Puigjaner , Edoardo Mello Rella , Erik Sandström , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

We present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based solution for modeling physically plausible spatially varying surface reflectance functions (SVBRDF) from a single photograph of a planar material sample under unknown natural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiao Li , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Xin Tong

Representing visual signals with implicit coordinate-based neural networks, as an effective replacement of the traditional discrete signal representation, has gained considerable popularity in computer vision and graphics. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Xin Huang , Qi Zhang , Ying Feng , Hongdong Li , Qing Wang

Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Julian Ost , Tanushree Banerjee , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Capturing the shape and spatially-varying appearance (SVBRDF) of an object from images is a challenging task that has applications in both computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based approaches often need a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Kihwan Kim , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Jan Kautz

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

Implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed impressive results for photorealistic rendering of complex scenes with fine details. However, ideal or near-perfectly specular reflecting objects such as mirrors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leif Van Holland , Ruben Bliersbach , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Blind image deblurring is an important yet very challenging problem in low-level vision. Traditional optimization based methods generally formulate this task as a maximum-a-posteriori estimation or variational inference problem, whose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hui Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Unsigned distance functions (UDFs) have been a vital representation for open surfaces. With different differentiable renderers, current methods are able to train neural networks to infer a UDF by minimizing the rendering errors with the UDF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Chunsheng Wang , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Gabriele Gradoni , George C. Alexandropoulos