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We present a method that takes as input a set of images of a scene illuminated by unconstrained known lighting, and produces as output a 3D representation that can be rendered from novel viewpoints under arbitrary lighting conditions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Xiuming Zhang , Matthew Tancik , Ben Mildenhall , Jonathan T. Barron

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

Inferring the scene illumination from a single image is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. Existing works estimate lighting by regressing representative illumination parameters or generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu , Changgong Zhang , Rongliang Wu , Wenbo Hu , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Ling Shao

Three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from shading information is a challenging task in computer vision. As most of the approaches facing the Photometric Stereo problem use simplified far-field assumptions, real-world scenarios have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Roberto Mecca , Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

We present the first self-supervised method to train panoramic room layout estimation models without any labeled data. Unlike per-pixel dense depth that provides abundant correspondence constraints, layout representation is sparse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hao-Wen Ting , Cheng Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

The photometric stereo (PS) problem consists in reconstructing the 3D-surface of an object, thanks to a set of photographs taken under different lighting directions. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale architecture for PS which,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Clément Hardy , Yvain Quéau , David Tschumperlé

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

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

Symmetry is one of the significant visual properties inside an image plane, to identify the geometrically balanced structures through real-world objects. Existing symmetry detection methods rely on descriptors of the local image features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mohamed Elawady , Christophe Ducottet , Olivier Alata , Cecile Barat , Philippe Colantoni

Faithful manipulation of shape, material, and illumination in 2D Internet images would greatly benefit from a reliable factorization of appearance into material (i.e., diffuse and specular) and illumination (i.e., environment maps). On the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Tobias Ritschel , Niloy J. Mitra

In this work, we focus on outdoor lighting estimation by aggregating individual noisy estimates from images, exploiting the rich image information from wide-angle cameras and/or temporal image sequences. Photographs inherently encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Haebom Lee , Christian Homeyer , Robert Herzog , Jan Rexilius , Carsten Rother

Reflectance bounds the frequency spectrum of illumination in the object appearance. In this paper, we introduce the first stochastic inverse rendering method, which recovers the attenuated frequency spectrum of an illumination jointly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yuto Enyo , Ko Nishino

To what extent are two images picturing the same 3D surfaces? Even when this is a known scene, the answer typically requires an expensive search across scale space, with matching and geometric verification of large sets of local features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Anita Rau , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Danail Stoyanov , Gabriel J. Brostow , Daniyar Turmukhambetov

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

The reconstruction of a scene via a stereo-camera system is a two-steps process, where at first images from different cameras are matched to identify the set of point-to-point correspondences that then will actually be reconstructed in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Riccardo Beschi , Xiao Feng , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Lorena Postiglione

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

Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruofan Liang , Kai He , Zan Gojcic , Igor Gilitschenski , Sanja Fidler , Nandita Vijaykumar , Zian Wang

Stereo matching is one of the widely used techniques for inferring depth from stereo images owing to its robustness and speed. It has become one of the major topics of research since it finds its applications in autonomous driving, robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Viny Saajan Victor , Peter Neigel

Scene context is a powerful constraint on the geometry of objects within the scene in cases, such as surveillance, where the camera geometry is unknown and image quality may be poor. In this paper, we describe a method for estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Pengfei Li , Weichao Qiu , Michael Peven , Gregory D. Hager , Alan L. Yuille

In this paper, we present PanoDreamer, a novel method for producing a coherent 360{\deg} 3D scene from a single input image. Unlike existing methods that generate the scene sequentially, we frame the problem as single-image panorama and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Avinash Paliwal , Xilong Zhou , Andrii Tsarov , Nima Khademi Kalantari