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We present a tool for enhancing the detail of physically based materials using an off-the-shelf diffusion model and inverse rendering. Our goal is to enhance the visual fidelity of materials with detail that is often tedious to author, by…

Generating images from graph-structured inputs, such as scene graphs, is uniquely challenging due to the difficulty of aligning nodes and connections in graphs with objects and their relations in images. Most existing methods address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ling Yang , Zhilin Huang , Yang Song , Shenda Hong , Guohao Li , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Bernard Ghanem , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Recent methods have shown that pre-trained diffusion models can be fine-tuned to enable generative inverse rendering by learning image-conditioned noise-to-intrinsic mapping. Despite their remarkable progress, they struggle to robustly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rongjia Zheng , Qing Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Wei-Shi Zheng

We introduce a novel neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhe Chen , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Deep generative models have demonstrated effectiveness in learning compact and expressive design representations that significantly improve geometric design optimization. However, these models do not consider the uncertainty introduced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Wei Wayne Chen , Doksoo Lee , Wei Chen

Most real-world networks are noisy and incomplete samples from an unknown target distribution. Refining them by correcting corruptions or inferring unobserved regions typically improves downstream performance. Inspired by the impressive…

Conventional meta-atom designs rely heavily on researchers' prior knowledge and trial-and-error searches using full-wave simulations, resulting in time-consuming and inefficient processes. Inverse design methods based on optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zezhou Zhang , Chuanchuan Yang , Yifeng Qin , Hao Feng , Jiqiang Feng , Hongbin Li

Accurate reconstruction and relighting of glossy objects remains a longstanding challenge, as object shape, material properties, and illumination are inherently difficult to disentangle. Existing neural rendering approaches often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

Graph representation learning aims to encode all nodes of a graph into low-dimensional vectors that will serve as input of many compute vision tasks. However, most existing algorithms ignore the existence of inherent data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Shuai Zheng , Zhenfeng Zhu , Xingxing Zhang , Zhizhe Liu , Jian Cheng , Yao Zhao

Generative diffusion priors have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in natural image super-resolution, demonstrating a powerful capability to synthesize photorealistic details. However, their direct application to remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Enzhuo Zhang , Sijie Zhao , Dilxat Muhtar , Zhenshi Li , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao

This paper aims to recover object materials from posed images captured under an unknown static lighting condition. Recent methods solve this task by optimizing material parameters through differentiable physically based rendering. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xi Chen , Sida Peng , Dongchen Yang , Yuan Liu , Bowen Pan , Chengfei Lv , Xiaowei Zhou

Precise calibration is a must for high reliance 3D computer vision algorithms. A challenging case is when the camera is behind a protective glass or transparent object: due to refraction, the image is heavily distorted; the pinhole camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Szabolcs Pável , Csanád Sándor , Lehel Csató

Existing image restoration methods mostly leverage the posterior distribution of natural images. However, they often assume known degradation and also require supervised training, which restricts their adaptation to complex real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ben Fei , Zhaoyang Lyu , Liang Pan , Junzhe Zhang , Weidong Yang , Tianyue Luo , Bo Zhang , Bo Dai

3D reconstruction techniques such as LiDAR scanning and photogrammetry have made it practical to build detailed geometric models of real-world environments. Such reconstructed models can potentially serve as the foundation for wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haofan Lu , Yadi Cao , Wanghao Yi , Omid Abari

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

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in image generation. The pre-trained Stable Diffusion (SD) models are helpful for image deblurring by providing clear image priors. However, directly using a blurry image or pre-deblurred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lingshun Kong , Jiawei Zhang , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Xiaohe Wu , Jiangxin Dong , Jinshan Pan

Digital content creation is experiencing a profound change with the advent of deep generative models. For texturing, conditional image generators now allow the synthesis of realistic RGB images of a 3D scene that align with the geometry of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Alban Gauthier , Valentin Deschaintre , Alexandre Lanvin , Fredo Durand , Adrien Bousseau , George Drettakis

Diffusion has shown great success in improving accuracy of unsupervised image retrieval systems by utilizing high-order structures of image manifold. However, existing diffusion methods suffer from three major limitations: 1) they usually…

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