English
Related papers

Related papers: Neural Relightable Participating Media Rendering

200 papers

Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

We present a novel method to acquire object representations from online image collections, capturing high-quality geometry and material properties of arbitrary objects from photographs with varying cameras, illumination, and backgrounds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhengfei Kuang , Kyle Olszewski , Menglei Chai , Zeng Huang , Panos Achlioptas , Sergey Tulyakov

We propose a novel explicit dense 3D reconstruction approach that processes a set of images of a scene with sensor poses and calibrations and estimates a photo-real digital model. One of the key innovations is that the underlying volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samir Aroudj , Steven Lovegrove , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Michael Goesele , Richard Newcombe

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) remains an attractive solution for real-time rendering of complex light transport effects such as glossy global illumination. After precomputation, we can relight the scene with new environment maps while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nithin Raghavan , Yan Xiao , Kai-En Lin , Tiancheng Sun , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Tzu-Mao Li , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance and illumination is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. Neural approaches such as NeRF have achieved remarkable success in view synthesis, but do not explicitly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Raphael Braun , Ce Liu , Jonathan T. Barron , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Accelerating neural radiance fields training is of substantial practical value, as the ray sampling strategy profoundly impacts network convergence. More efficient ray sampling can thus directly enhance existing NeRF models' training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shilei Sun , Ming Liu , Zhongyi Fan , Yuxue Liu , Chengwei Lv , Liquan Dong , Lingqin Kong

Recent advances in neural rendering have achieved impressive results on photorealistic shading and relighting, by using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) as a regression model to learn the rendering equation from a real-world dataset. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhuo He , Yingdong Ru , Qianying Liu , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Stephen Lombardi , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Gabriel Schwartz , Andreas Lehrmann , Yaser Sheikh

This paper addresses the task of estimating the light arriving from all directions to a 3D point observed at a selected pixel in an RGB image. This task is challenging because it requires predicting a mapping from a partial scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shuran Song , Thomas Funkhouser

Indoor scenes typically exhibit complex, spatially-varying appearance from global illumination, making inverse rendering a challenging ill-posed problem. This work presents an end-to-end, learning-based inverse rendering framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jingsen Zhu , Fujun Luan , Yuchi Huo , Zihao Lin , Zhihua Zhong , Dianbing Xi , Jiaxiang Zheng , Rui Tang , Hujun Bao , Rui Wang

We propose a Transformer-based NeRF (TransNeRF) to learn a generic neural radiance field conditioned on observed-view images for the novel view synthesis task. By contrast, existing MLP-based NeRFs are not able to directly receive observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Dan Wang , Xinrui Cui , Septimiu Salcudean , Z. Jane Wang

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Manipulating the light source of given images is an interesting task and useful in various applications, including photography and cinematography. Existing methods usually require additional information like the geometric structure of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Li-Wen Wang , Wan-Chi Siu , Zhi-Song Liu , Chu-Tak Li , Daniel P. K. Lun

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have remodeled 3D scene representation since release. NeRFs can effectively reconstruct complex 3D scenes from 2D images, advancing different fields and applications such as scene understanding, 3D content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Wenhui Xiao , Remi Chierchia , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Xuesong Li , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Leo Lebrat

Diffractive neural networks hold great promise for applications requiring intensive computational processing. Considerable attention has focused on diffractive networks for either spatially coherent or spatially incoherent illumination.…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Matan Kleiner , Lior Michaeli , Tomer Michaeli

Recent research on learnable neural representations has been widely adopted in the field of 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering applications. However, traditional feature grid representations often suffer from substantial memory…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Su , Honghao Dong , Haojie Jin , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its exceptional visual effects. However, most existing NeRF methods reconstruct 3D scenes from RGB images captured by visible light cameras. In practical scenarios like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Chonghao Zhong , Chao Xu

In real-world road scenes, diverse material properties lead to complex light reflection phenomena, making accurate color reproduction crucial for enhancing the realism and safety of simulated driving environments. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongsheng Wang , Yang Wang , Yalan Liu , Fayuan Hu , Shengyu Zhang , Fei Wu , Feng Lin

We study active perception from first principles to argue that an autonomous agent performing active perception should maximize the mutual information that past observations posses about future ones. Doing so requires (a) a representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Siming He , Christopher D. Hsu , Dexter Ong , Yifei Simon Shao , Pratik Chaudhari

Rendering bridges the gap between 2D vision and 3D scenes by simulating the physical process of image formation. By inverting such renderer, one can think of a learning approach to infer 3D information from 2D images. However, standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Shichen Liu , Tianye Li , Weikai Chen , Hao Li