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This paper tackles the problem of novel view synthesis from a single image. In particular, we target real-world scenes with rich geometric structure, a challenging task due to the large appearance variations of such scenes and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Miaomiao Liu , Xuming He , Mathieu Salzmann

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive performance in novel view synthesis, but challenges remain in rendering scenes with complex specular reflections and highlights. Existing approaches may produce blurry reflections due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Tiancheng Zhao , Gaolei Li , Changting Lin , Yike Guo , Meng Han

Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance of objects from images. Despite recent progress, existing methods often produces inaccurate reconstructions that are sensitive to ambient illumination conditions. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Jinnyeong Kim , Hyunwoo Kang , Seung-Hwan Baek

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has recently gained popularity for its impressive novel view synthesis ability. This paper studies the problem of hallucinated NeRF: i.e., recovering a realistic NeRF at a different time of day from a group of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xingyu Chen , Qi Zhang , Xiaoyu Li , Yue Chen , Ying Feng , Xuan Wang , Jue Wang

Neural Radiances Fields (NeRF) and their extensions have shown great success in representing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel-view images. However, most NeRF methods take in low-dynamic-range (LDR) images, which may lose details, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Guanjun Wu , Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have shown remarkable success in synthesizing photorealistic views from multi-view images of static scenes, but face challenges in dynamic, real-world environments with distractors like moving objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Weining Ren , Zihan Zhu , Boyang Sun , Jiaqi Chen , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng

In this paper, we present a new compositing approach to obtain stylized reflections and refractions with a simple control. Our approach does not require any mask or separate 3D rendering. Moreover, only one additional image is sufficient to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ergun Akleman , Youyou Wang , Ozgur Gonen

This paper addresses the problem of novel view synthesis by means of neural rendering, where we are interested in predicting the novel view at an arbitrary camera pose based on a given set of input images from other viewpoints. Using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Phong Nguyen-Ha , Lam Huynh , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

We tackle the problem of automatically reconstructing a complete 3D model of a scene from a single RGB image. This challenging task requires inferring the shape of both visible and occluded surfaces. Our approach utilizes viewer-centered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Daeyun Shin , Zhile Ren , Erik B. Sudderth , Charless C. Fowlkes

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

View synthesis is a process for generating novel views from a scene which has been recorded with a 3-D camera setup. It has important applications in 3-D post-production and 2-D to 3-D conversion. However, a central problem in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Julian Habigt , Klaus Diepold

Conformal transformation optics provides a simple scheme for manipulating light rays with inhomogeneous isotropic dielectrics. However, there is usually discontinuity for refractive index profile at branch cuts of different virtual Riemann…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-08 Lin Xu , Tomáš Tyc , Huanyang Chen

We present a novel way of approaching image-based 3D reconstruction based on radiance fields. The problem of volumetric reconstruction is formulated as a non-linear least-squares problem and solved explicitly without the use of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sverker Rasmuson , Erik Sintorn , Ulf Assarsson

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) accomplishes photo-realistic novel view synthesis by learning the implicit volumetric representation of a scene from multi-view images, which faithfully convey the colorimetric information. However, sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiacong Xu , Mingqian Liao , K Ram Prabhakar , Vishal M. Patel

We present the first system for physically based, neural inverse rendering from multi-viewpoint videos of propagating light. Our approach relies on a time-resolved extension of neural radiance caching -- a technique that accelerates inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Anagh Malik , Benjamin Attal , Andrew Xie , Matthew O'Toole , David B. Lindell

This paper presents a learning-based approach to synthesize the view from an arbitrary camera position given a sparse set of images. A key challenge for this novel view synthesis arises from the reconstruction process, when the views from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Nan Meng , Kai Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

Modern computer vision algorithms have brought significant advancement to 3D geometry reconstruction. However, illumination and material reconstruction remain less studied, with current approaches assuming very simplified models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dejan Azinović , Tzu-Mao Li , Anton Kaplanyan , Matthias Nießner

We present an abstract method in the setting of compact metric spaces which is applied to solve a number of problems in geometric optics. In particular, we solve the one source near field refraction problem. That is, we construct surfaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Cristian E. Gutierrez , Qingbo Huang

Refraction of an optical probe beam by a plasma can be measured with angular filter refractometry (AFR), which produces an image containing intensity contours that correspond to curves of constant refraction angle. Further analysis is…

With Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) arising as a powerful 3D representation, research has investigated its various downstream tasks, including inpainting NeRFs with 2D images. Despite successful efforts addressing the view consistency and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Jingyu Shi , Achleshwar Luthra , Jiazhi Li , Xiang Gao , Xiyun Song , Zongfang Lin , David Gu , Heather Yu