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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which…

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Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) produce state-of-the-art view synthesis results. However, they are slow to render, requiring hundreds of network evaluations per pixel to approximate a volume rendering integral. Baking NeRFs into explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Benjamin Attal , Jia-Bin Huang , Michael Zollhoefer , Johannes Kopf , Changil Kim

Relighting, which synthesizes a novel view under a given lighting condition (unseen in training time), is a must feature for immersive photo-realistic experience. However, real-time relighting is challenging due to high computation cost of…

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Recent works use the Neural radiance field (NeRF) to perform multi-view 3D reconstruction, providing a significant leap in rendering photorealistic scenes. However, despite its efficacy, NeRF exhibits limited capability of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Congyue Deng , Jiawei Yang , Leonidas Guibas , Yue Wang

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Haoqian Wu , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Yongqiang Zhang , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

We propose a neural inverse rendering approach that jointly reconstructs geometry, spatially varying reflectance, and lighting conditions from multi-view images captured under varying directional lighting. Unlike prior multi-view…

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We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

Neural implicit representation of visual scenes has attracted a lot of attention in recent research of computer vision and graphics. Most prior methods focus on how to reconstruct 3D scene representation from a set of images. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Wenpu Li , Pian Wan , Peng Wang , Jinghang Li , Yi Zhou , Peidong Liu

Human portraits exhibit various appearances when observed from different views under different lighting conditions. We can easily imagine how the face will look like in another setup, but computer algorithms still fail on this problem given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tiancheng Sun , Kai-En Lin , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Reconstructing photo-realistic large-scale scenes from images, for example at city scale, is a long-standing problem in computer graphics. Neural rendering is an emerging technique that enables photo-realistic image synthesis from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yaru Liu , Derek Nowrouzezahri , Morgan Mcguire

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are able to synthesize realistic novel views from multi-view images captured from distinct positions and perspectives. In NeRF's rendering pipeline, neural networks are used to represent a scene independently…

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This paper presents a method, namely NeuS-PIR, for recovering relightable neural surfaces using pre-integrated rendering from multi-view images or video. Unlike methods based on NeRF and discrete meshes, our method utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shi Mao , Chenming Wu , Zhelun Shen , Yifan Wang , Dayan Wu , Liangjun Zhang

Embedding polygonal mesh assets within photorealistic Neural Radience Fields (NeRF) volumes, such that they can be rendered and their dynamics simulated in a physically consistent manner with the NeRF, is under-explored from the system…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yi-Ling Qiao , Alexander Gao , Yiran Xu , Yue Feng , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming C. Lin

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs. Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Peng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views. Our algorithm represents a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Ben Mildenhall , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Matthew Tancik , Jonathan T. Barron , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Ren Ng

We present a neural rendering framework for simultaneous view synthesis and appearance editing of a scene from multi-view images captured under known environment illumination. Existing approaches either achieve view synthesis alone or view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Pulkit Gera , Aakash KT , Dhawal Sirikonda , Parikshit Sakurikar , P. J. Narayanan

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

Although neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown impressive advances for novel view synthesis, most methods typically require multiple input images of the same scene with accurate camera poses. In this work, we seek to substantially reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kai-En Lin , Lin Yen-Chen , Wei-Sheng Lai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yi-Chang Shih , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We present a neural rendering-based method called NeRO for reconstructing the geometry and the BRDF of reflective objects from multiview images captured in an unknown environment. Multiview reconstruction of reflective objects is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiepeng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang