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We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

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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

This paper introduces innovative solutions to enhance spatial controllability in diffusion models reliant on text queries. We first introduce vision guidance as a foundational spatial cue within the perturbed distribution. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qi , Guoxi Huang , Chenyang Liu , Fei Ye

Motion estimation is one of the core challenges in computer vision. With traditional dual-frame approaches, occlusions and out-of-view motions are a limiting factor, especially in the context of environmental perception for vehicles due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 René Schuster , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

Addressing the intricate challenge of modeling and re-rendering dynamic scenes, most recent approaches have sought to simplify these complexities using plane-based explicit representations, overcoming the slow training time issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ange Lou , Benjamin Planche , Zhongpai Gao , Yamin Li , Tianyu Luan , Hao Ding , Terrence Chen , Jack Noble , Ziyan Wu

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

As we move through the world, the pattern of light projected on our eyes is complex and dynamic, yet we are still able to distinguish between moving and stationary objects. We propose that humans accomplish this by exploiting constraints…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Hope Lutwak , Bas Rokers , Eero P. Simoncelli

We present a scheme for fast environment light estimation from the RGBD appearance of individual objects and their local image areas. Conventional inverse rendering is too computationally demanding for real-time applications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Xin Wei , Guojun Chen , Yue Dong , Stephen Lin , Xin Tong

Transient phenomena are interesting and potentially highly revealing of details about the processes under observation and study that could otherwise go unnoticed. It is therefore important to maximize the sensitivity of the method used to…

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We present a novel extension of the path tracing algorithm that is capable of treating highly scattering participating media in the presence of fluorescent structures. The extension is based on the formulation of the full radiative transfer…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Marwan Abdellah , Ahmet Bilgili , Stefan Eilemann , Henry Markram , Felix Schürmann

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…

In many video processing tasks, leveraging large-scale image datasets is a common strategy, as image data is more abundant and facilitates comprehensive knowledge transfer. A typical approach for simulating video from static images involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Recent diffusion models have exhibited great potential in generative modeling tasks. Part of their success can be attributed to the ability of training stable on huge sets of paired synthetic data. However, adapting these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yiyang Shen , Mingqiang Wei , Yongzhen Wang , Xueyang Fu , Jing Qin

Dynamic patterns are characterized by complex spatial and motion patterns. Understanding dynamic patterns requires a disentangled representational model that separates the factorial components. A commonly used model for dynamic patterns is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jianwen Xie , Ruiqi Gao , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Gradient-based algorithms are crucial to modern computer-vision and graphics applications, enabling learning-based optimization and inverse problems. For example, photorealistic differentiable rendering pipelines for color images have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Benjamin Planche , Rajat Vikram Singh

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…

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Operating effectively in novel real-world environments requires robotic systems to estimate and interact with previously unseen objects. Current state-of-the-art models address this challenge by using large amounts of training data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Octavio Arriaga , Proneet Sharma , Jichen Guo , Marc Otto , Siddhant Kadwe , Rebecca Adam

Many existing video inpainting algorithms utilize optical flows to construct the corresponding maps and then propagate pixels from adjacent frames to missing areas by mapping. Despite the effectiveness of the propagation mechanism, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xian Wu , Chang Liu

We introduce a theoretical framework for differentiable surface evolution that allows discrete topology changes through the use of topological derivatives for variational optimization of image functionals. While prior methods for inverse…

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We introduce a method for real-time navigation and tracking with differentiably rendered world models. Learning models for control has led to impressive results in robotics and computer games, but this success has yet to be extended to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Baris Kayalibay , Atanas Mirchev , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer