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We address the problem of decomposing a single image into reflectance and shading. The difficulty comes from the fact that the components of image---the surface albedo, the direct illumination, and the ambient illumination---are coupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Yuanliu Liu , Ang Li , Zejian Yuan , Badong Chen , Nanning Zheng

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Intrinsic image decomposition is an important and long-standing computer vision problem. Given an input image, recovering the physical scene properties is ill-posed. Several physically motivated priors have been used to restrict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zongji Wang , Yunfei Liu , Feng Lu

Decomposing a scene into its reflectance and shading is a challenge due to the lack of extensive ground-truth data for real-world scenes. We introduce a novel physics-based approach for intrinsic image decomposition using a pair of visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zeqing Yuan , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Intrinsic Image Decomposition is an open problem of generating the constituents of an image. Generating reflectance and shading from a single image is a challenging task specifically when there is no ground truth. There is a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Parakrama Ekanayake , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath , Roshan Godaliyadda

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

Accurate intrinsic decomposition of face images under unconstrained lighting is a prerequisite for photorealistic relighting, high-fidelity digital doubles, and augmented-reality effects. This paper introduces MAGINet, a Multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Hossein Javidnia

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Despite significant advancements in network-based image harmonization techniques, there still exists a domain disparity between typical training pairs and real-world composites encountered during inference. Most existing methods are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Chris Careaga , S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Yağız Aksoy

The purpose of intrinsic decomposition is to separate an image into its albedo (reflective properties) and shading components (illumination properties). This is challenging because it's an ill-posed problem. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xiaoyan Xing , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph. Due to the complexity of the problem, most prior works assume a single-color illumination and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

This paper aims to recover object materials from posed images captured under an unknown static lighting condition. Recent methods solve this task by optimizing material parameters through differentiable physically based rendering. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xi Chen , Sida Peng , Dongchen Yang , Yuan Liu , Bowen Pan , Chengfei Lv , Xiaowei Zhou

We present a method to automatically decompose a light field into its intrinsic shading and albedo components. Contrary to previous work targeted to 2D single images and videos, a light field is a 4D structure that captures non-integrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Elena Garces , Jose I. Echevarria , Wen Zhang , Hongzhi Wu , Kun Zhou , Diego Gutierrez

We develop a framework for extracting a concise representation of the shape information available from diffuse shading in a small image patch. This produces a mid-level scene descriptor, comprised of local shape distributions that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Ying Xiong , Ayan Chakrabarti , Ronen Basri , Steven J. Gortler , David W. Jacobs , Todd Zickler

We consider the non-Lambertian object intrinsic problem of recovering diffuse albedo, shading, and specular highlights from a single image of an object. We build a large-scale object intrinsics database based on existing 3D models in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Jian Shi , Yue Dong , Hao Su , Stella X. Yu

Estimating albedo (a.k.a., intrinsic image decomposition) from single RGB images captured in real-world environments (e.g., the MVImgNet dataset) presents a significant challenge due to the absence of paired images and their ground truth…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xiaokang Wei , Zizheng Yan , Zhangyang Xiong , Yiming Hao , Yipeng Qin , Xiaoguang Han