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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

Reconstructing an object's high-quality 3D shape with inherent spectral reflectance property, beyond typical device-dependent RGB albedos, opens the door to applications requiring a high-fidelity 3D model in terms of both geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chunyu Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Reconstructing the shape and appearance of real-world objects using measured 2D images has been a long-standing problem in computer vision. In this paper, we introduce a new analysis-by-synthesis technique capable of producing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Zhao Dong

Inverse rendering aims to estimate physical attributes of a scene, e.g., reflectance, geometry, and lighting, from image(s). Inverse rendering has been studied primarily for single objects or with methods that solve for only one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Soumyadip Sengupta , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Guilin Liu , David W. Jacobs , Jan Kautz

Existing techniques for dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple wide-baseline cameras primarily focus on reconstruction in controlled environments, with fixed calibrated cameras and strong prior constraints. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Armin Mustafa , Marco Volino , Hansung Kim , Jean-Yves Guillemaut , Adrian Hilton

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Developing deep neural networks to generate 3D scenes is a fundamental problem in neural synthesis with immediate applications in architectural CAD, computer graphics, as well as in generating virtual robot training environments. This task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Haitao Yang , Zaiwei Zhang , Siming Yan , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Yi Zheng , Chandrajit Bajaj , Qixing Huang

This paper aims at recovering the shape of a scene with unknown, non-Lambertian, and possibly spatially-varying surface materials. When the shape of the object is highly complex and that shadows cast on the surface, the task becomes very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li

We tackle the problem of reflectance estimation from a set of multi-view images, assuming known geometry. The approach we put forward turns the input images into reflectance maps, through a robust variational method. The variational model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Jean Mélou , Yvain Quéau , Jean-Denis Durou , Fabien Castan , Daniel Cremers

Representing scenes from multi-view images is a crucial task in computer vision with extensive applications. However, inherent photometric distortions in the camera imaging can significantly degrade image quality. Without accounting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Weichen Dai , Kangcheng Ma , Jiaxin Wang , Kecen Pan , Yuhang Ming , Hua Zhang , Wanzeng Kong

This paper proposes a practical photometric solution for the challenging problem of in-the-wild inverse rendering under unknown ambient lighting. Our system recovers scene geometry and reflectance using only multi-view images captured by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziang Cheng , Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li

Production of photorealistic, navigable 3D site models requires a large volume of carefully collected images that are often unavailable to first responders for disaster relief or law enforcement. Real-world challenges include limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Neil Joshi , Joshua Carney , Nathanael Kuo , Homer Li , Cheng Peng , Myron Brown

Neural 3D scene reconstruction methods have achieved impressive performance when reconstructing complex geometry and low-textured regions in indoor scenes. However, these methods heavily rely on 3D data which is costly and time-consuming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yi Guo , Che Sun , Yunde Jia , Yuwei Wu

Geometry reconstruction of textureless, non-Lambertian objects under unknown natural illumination (i.e., in the wild) remains challenging as correspondences cannot be established and the reflectance cannot be expressed in simple analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Kohei Yamashita , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

In this work we address the challenging problem of multiview 3D surface reconstruction. We introduce a neural network architecture that simultaneously learns the unknown geometry, camera parameters, and a neural renderer that approximates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lior Yariv , Yoni Kasten , Dror Moran , Meirav Galun , Matan Atzmon , Ronen Basri , Yaron Lipman

Recent advances in 3D scene generation produce visually appealing output, but current representations hinder artists' workflows that require modifiable 3D textured mesh scenes for visual effects and game development. Despite significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tobias Sautter , Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

How can one efficiently generate high-quality, wide-scope 3D scenes from arbitrary single images? Existing methods suffer several drawbacks, such as requiring multi-view data, time-consuming per-scene optimization, distorted geometry in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hanwen Liang , Junli Cao , Vidit Goel , Guocheng Qian , Sergei Korolev , Demetri Terzopoulos , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

In recent years, 3D generation has made great strides in both academia and industry. However, generating 3D scenes from a single RGB image remains a significant challenge, as current approaches often struggle to ensure both object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiang Tang , Ruotong Li , Xiaopeng Fan

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

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie