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Generating high-quality novel views of a scene from a single image requires maintaining structural coherence across different views, referred to as view consistency. While diffusion models have driven advancements in novel view synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jiwoo Park , Tae Eun Choi , Youngjun Jun , Seong Jae Hwang

We propose a method for reconstructing a continuous light field of a target scene from a single observed image. Our method takes the best of two worlds: joint aperture-exposure coding for compressive light-field acquisition, and a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yuya Ishikawa , Keita Takahashi , Chihiro Tsutake , Toshiaki Fujii

We study the problem of constructing an optical surface separating two homogeneous, isotropic media, one of which has a negative refractive index. In doing so, we develop a vector form of Snell's law, which is used to study surfaces…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Cristian E. Gutierrez , Eric Stachura

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

Novel view synthesis refers to the problem of synthesizing novel viewpoints of a scene given the images from a few viewpoints. This is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics, and enables a vast variety of applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Nagabhushan Somraj

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

We present a novel diffusion-based framework for synthesizing 2D vector fields from sparse, coherent inputs (i.e., streamlines) while maintaining physical plausibility. Our method employs a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nguyen K. Phan , Ricardo Morales , Sebastian D. Espriella , Guoning Chen

We introduce a new type of lens that focuses a plane wave into a spherical one, where light comes from all directions. Our method also suggests the design of ideal optical tweezers or, in the reverse direction, photo-detection of nearly all…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Shay Rabani , Kirill Shvalb , Boris Malomed , Tal Carmon

It has been shown that a slab of materials with refractive index = -1 behaves like a perfect lens focussing all light to an exact electromagnetic copy of an object. The original lens is limited to producing images the same size as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Pendry , S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has exhibited significant success in novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, etc. However, since no physical reflection is considered in its rendering pipeline, NeRF mistakes the reflection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Junyi Zeng , Chong Bao , Rui Chen , Zilong Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Light field, as a new data representation format in multimedia, has the ability to capture both intensity and direction of light rays. However, the additional angular information also brings a large volume of data. Classical coding methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Henan Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Zhibo Chen

We present Omnidirectional Neural Radiance Fields (OmniNeRF), the first method to the application of parallax-enabled novel panoramic view synthesis. Recent works for novel view synthesis focus on perspective images with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Ching-Yu Hsu , Cheng Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Common capture low-light scenes are challenging for most computer vision techniques, including Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Vanilla NeRF is viewer-centred simplifies the rendering process only as light emission from 3D locations in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Ziteng Cui , Lin Gu , Xiao Sun , Xianzheng Ma , Yu Qiao , Tatsuya Harada

Deconvolution phase microscopy enables high-contrast visualization of transparent samples through reconstructions of their transmitted phases or refractive indexes. Herein, we propose a method to extend 2D deconvolution phase microscopy to…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-20 Herve Hugonnet , Mahn Jae Lee , Yongkeun Park

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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) aim to synthesize novel views of objects and scenes, given the object-centric camera views with large overlaps. However, we conjugate that this paradigm does not fit the nature of the street views that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ziyang Xie , Junge Zhang , Wenye Li , Feihu Zhang , Li Zhang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a framework that represents a 3D scene in the weights of a fully connected neural network, known as the Multi-Layer Perception(MLP). The method was introduced for the task of novel view synthesis and is able…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Mohamed Debbagh

The generation of smooth and continuous images between domains has recently drawn much attention in image-to-image (I2I) translation. Linear relationship acts as the basic assumption in most existing approaches, while applied to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yi Li , Xin Xie , Lina Lei , Haiyan Fu , Yanqing Guo

Relighting radiance fields is severely underconstrained for multi-view data, which is most often captured under a single illumination condition; It is especially hard for full scenes containing multiple objects. We introduce a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Alban Gauthier , Julien Philip , Jean-Francois Lalonde , George Drettakis