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Bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) are pervasively used in computer graphics to produce realistic physically-based appearance. In recent years, several works explored using neural networks to represent BRDFs, taking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiahui Fan , Beibei Wang , Miloš Hašan , Jian Yang , Ling-Qi Yan

Neural bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) have emerged as popular material representations for enhancing realism in physically-based rendering. Yet their importance sampling remains a significant challenge. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Liwen Wu , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Hao Tan , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Haolin Lu , Ravi Ramamoorthi

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

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 neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhe Chen , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is an essential tool to capture the complex interaction of light and matter. Recently, several works have employed neural methods for BRDF modeling, following various strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Florian Hofherr , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

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

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

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

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

Accurate material modeling is crucial for achieving photorealistic rendering, bridging the gap between computer-generated imagery and real-world photographs. While traditional approaches rely on tabulated BRDF data, recent work has shifted…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Chenliang Zhou , Zheyuan Hu , Cengiz Oztireli

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

Physically-based rendering (PBR) is key for immersive rendering effects used widely in the industry to showcase detailed realistic scenes from computer graphics assets. A well-known caveat is that producing the same is computationally heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jing Yang , Hanyuan Xiao , Wenbin Teng , Yunxuan Cai , Yajie Zhao

We propose a set of techniques to efficiently importance sample the derivatives of several BRDF models. In differentiable rendering, BRDFs are replaced by their differential BRDF counterparts which are real-valued and can have negative…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yash Belhe , Bing Xu , Sai Praveen Bangaru , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li

Estimating surface reflectance (BRDF) is one key component for complete 3D scene capture, with wide applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, and human computer interaction. Prior work is either limited to controlled environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Kihwan Kim , Jinwei Gu , Stephen Tyree , Pavlo Molchanov , Matthias Nießner , Jan Kautz

Traditional analytical reflectance models, while compact and interpretable, lack the capacity to accurately represent physical measurements. Recent neural models, which closely fit input data, are less generalizable and often more expensive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuanzhe Shen , Xiaohe Ma , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu

Monte Carlo rendering of translucent objects with heterogeneous scattering properties is often expensive both in terms of memory and computation. If we do path tracing and use a high dynamic range lighting environment, the rendering becomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Thomson TG , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Henrik Wann Jensen

Characterizing the appearance of real-world surfaces is a fundamental problem in multidimensional reflectometry, computer vision and computer graphics. For many applications, appearance is sufficiently well characterized by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Mikhail A. Langovoy

Acquiring bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) is essential for simulating light transport and analytically modeling material properties. Over the past two decades, numerous intensity-only BRDF datasets in the visible…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yunseong Moon , Ryota Maeda , Suhyun Shin , Inseung Hwang , Youngchan Kim , Min H. Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek

The realistic rendering of woven and knitted fabrics has posed significant challenges throughout many years. Previously, fiber-based micro-appearance models have achieved considerable success in attaining high levels of realism. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Guan Yu Soh , Zahra Montazeri
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