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We propose NEMTO, the first end-to-end neural rendering pipeline to model 3D transparent objects with complex geometry and unknown indices of refraction. Commonly used appearance modeling such as the Disney BSDF model cannot accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dongqing Wang , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk

With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance, allowing to conduct view synthesis using differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Diego Martin Arroyo , Michael Niemeyer , Abhijit Kundu , Federico Tombari

Transmissive scenes are ubiquitous in daily life, yet reconstructing and rendering them remains highly challenging due to the inherent entanglement between near-field reflections from the surrounding environment on the transmissive surface,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Liang , Xiao Zhang , Tianchao Li , Jack C. P. Cheng , Chi-Keung Tang

RayGauss has achieved state-of-the-art rendering quality for novel-view synthesis on synthetic and indoor scenes by representing radiance and density fields with irregularly distributed elliptical basis functions, rendered via volume ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hugo Blanc , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Alexis Paljic

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown great potentials in representing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views, but the computational overhead of NeRF at the inference stage is still heavy. To alleviate the burden, we delve into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jiemin Fang , Lingxi Xie , Xinggang Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Qi Tian

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is an emerging technique to synthesize 3D objects from 2D images with a wide range of potential applications. However, rendering existing NeRF models is extremely computation intensive, making it challenging to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhe Wang , Yifei Zhu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as powerful tools for capturing detailed 3D scenes through continuous volumetric representations. Recent NeRFs utilize feature grids to improve rendering quality and speed; however, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Tuan Pham , Stephan Mandt

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have achieved impressive results in novel view synthesis and surface reconstruction tasks. However, their performance suffers under challenging scenarios with sparse input views. We present CorresNeRF, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yixing Lao , Xiaogang Xu , Zhipeng Cai , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

It is a long-standing problem to find effective representations for training reinforcement learning (RL) agents. This paper demonstrates that learning state representations with supervision from Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Danny Driess , Ingmar Schubert , Pete Florence , Yunzhu Li , Marc Toussaint

Inferring representations of 3D scenes from 2D observations is a fundamental problem of computer graphics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Emerging 3D-structured neural scene representations are a promising approach to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Vincent Sitzmann , Semon Rezchikov , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Fredo Durand

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

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

Creating relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular videos is a rising research topic with a range of applications, e.g. virtual reality, sports, and video games. Previous works utilize neural fields together with physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zeren Jiang , Shaofei Wang , Siyu Tang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling method to represent 3D objects and scenes for photo-realistic rendering. However, its implicit representation causes difficulty in manipulating the models like the explicit mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaxiang Tang , Xiaokang Chen , Jingbo Wang , Gang Zeng

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

Accurate 3D scene representation and panoptic understanding are essential for applications such as virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous driving. However, challenges persist with existing methods, including precise 2D-to-3D mapping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shenghao Li

Recent advances in Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have enabled high-fidelity scene reconstruction for novel view synthesis. However, NeRF requires hundreds of network evaluations per pixel to approximate a volume rendering integral, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yifan Wang , Yi Gong , Yuan Zeng

Novel view synthesis is a long-standing problem in machine learning and computer vision. Significant progress has recently been made in developing neural scene representations and rendering techniques that synthesize photorealistic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Alexander W. Bergman , Petr Kellnhofer , Gordon Wetzstein

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have revolutionized the field of 3D visual representation by enabling highly realistic and detailed scene reconstructions from a sparse set of images. NeRF uses a volumetric functional representation that maps…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pedro Martin , António Rodrigues , João Ascenso , Maria Paula Queluz

Novel view synthesis is a long-standing problem. In this work, we consider a variant of the problem where we are given only a few context views sparsely covering a scene or an object. The goal is to predict novel viewpoints in the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Torsten Sattler , Robert Babuška