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In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

We present Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF), an object-aware neural scene representation that decomposes a scene into a set of objects (things) and background (stuff). Each object is represented by an oriented 3D bounding box and a multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhijit Kundu , Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , Caroline Pantofaru , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Frank Dellaert , Thomas Funkhouser

Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sida Peng , Xingang Pan , Nanxuan Zhao , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

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…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nan Luo , Chenglin Ye , Jiaxu Li , Gang Liu , Bo Wan , Di Wang , Lupeng Liu , Jun Xiao

The light transport (LT) of a scene describes how it appears under different lighting and viewing directions, and complete knowledge of a scene's LT enables the synthesis of novel views under arbitrary lighting. In this paper, we focus on…

We present Neural Microfacet Fields, a method for recovering materials, geometry, and environment illumination from images of a scene. Our method uses a microfacet reflectance model within a volumetric setting by treating each sample along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Alexander Mai , Dor Verbin , Falko Kuester , Sara Fridovich-Keil

Contemporary registration devices for 3D visual information, such as LIDARs and various depth cameras, capture data as 3D point clouds. In turn, such clouds are challenging to be processed due to their size and complexity. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dominik Zimny , Joanna Waczyńska , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

Neural networks have recently been used to analyze diverse physical systems and to identify the underlying dynamics. While existing methods achieve impressive results, they are limited by their strong demand for training data and their weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Florian Hofherr , Lukas Koestler , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

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

With the introduction of consumer light field cameras, light field imaging has recently become widespread. However, there is an inherent trade-off between the angular and spatial resolution, and thus, these cameras often sparsely sample in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Nima Khademi Kalantari , Ting-Chun Wang , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have emerged as a powerful representation for the task of novel view synthesis due to their simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. Though NeRF can produce photorealistic renderings of unseen viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Michael Niemeyer , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Andreas Geiger , Noha Radwan

Neural Radiance Fields employ simple volume rendering as a way to overcome the challenges of differentiating through ray-triangle intersections by leveraging a probabilistic notion of visibility. This is achieved by assuming the scene is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Andrea Tagliasacchi , Ben Mildenhall

Recently, groundbreaking results have been presented on open-vocabulary semantic image segmentation. Such methods segment each pixel in an image into arbitrary categories provided at run-time in the form of text prompts, as opposed to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Kenneth Blomqvist , Francesco Milano , Jen Jen Chung , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

A concept of light-fields computed from multiple view images on regular grids has proven its benefit for scene representations, and supported realistic renderings of novel views and photographic effects such as refocusing and shallow depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hyunjun Jung , Hae-Gon Jeon

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

Implicit neural rendering techniques have shown promising results for novel view synthesis. However, existing methods usually encode the entire scene as a whole, which is generally not aware of the object identity and limits the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Bangbang Yang , Yinda Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Yijin Li , Han Zhou , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Visual localization techniques rely upon some underlying scene representation to localize against. These representations can be explicit such as 3D SFM map or implicit, such as a neural network that learns to encode the scene. The former…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Maxime Pietrantoni , Gabriela Csurka , Martin Humenberger , Torsten Sattler

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieve impressive view synthesis results for a variety of capture settings, including 360 capture of bounded scenes and forward-facing capture of bounded and unbounded scenes. NeRF fits multi-layer perceptrons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Zhang , Gernot Riegler , Noah Snavely , Vladlen Koltun

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel