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We propose a deep inverse rendering framework for indoor scenes. From a single RGB image of an arbitrary indoor scene, we create a complete scene reconstruction, estimating shape, spatially-varying lighting, and spatially-varying,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Zhengqin Li , Mohammad Shafiei , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Manmohan Chandraker

Reconstructing the shape and spatially varying surface appearances of a physical-world object as well as its surrounding illumination based on 2D images (e.g., photographs) of the object has been a long-standing problem in computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Cheng Sun , Guangyan Cai , Zhengqin Li , Kai Yan , Cheng Zhang , Carl Marshall , Jia-Bin Huang , Shuang Zhao , Zhao Dong

This paper introduces a practical and accurate calibration method for camera spectral sensitivity using a diffraction grating. Accurate calibration of camera spectral sensitivity is crucial for various computer vision tasks, including color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Lilika Makabe , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Michael S. Brown , Yasuyuki Matsushita

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 presents a novel technique for camera calibration using a single view that incorporates a spherical mirror. Leveraging the distinct characteristics of the sphere's contour visible in the image and its reflections, we showcase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Nissim Barzilay , Ofek Narinsky , Michael Werman

Simultaneous reconstruction of geometry and reflectance properties in uncontrolled environments remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to reconstruct the scene's 3D geometry and reflectance from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Rui Li , Guangmin Zang , Miao Qi , Wolfgang Heidrich

Recently, 3D face reconstruction from a single image has achieved great success with the help of deep learning and shape prior knowledge, but they often fail to produce accurate geometry details. On the other hand, photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

Inverse rendering aims at recovering both geometry and materials of objects. It provides a more compatible reconstruction for conventional rendering engines, compared with the neural radiance fields (NeRFs). On the other hand, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyuan Wang , Wenbo Hu , Lei Zhu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed impressive results for photorealistic rendering of complex scenes with fine details. However, ideal or near-perfectly specular reflecting objects such as mirrors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leif Van Holland , Ruben Bliersbach , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

In this paper we show how to perform scene-level inverse rendering to recover shape, reflectance and lighting from a single, uncontrolled image using a fully convolutional neural network. The network takes an RGB image as input, regresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Ye Yu , William A. P. Smith

We aim to improve the Inverted Neural Radiance Fields (iNeRF) algorithm which defines the image pose estimation problem as a NeRF based iterative linear optimization. NeRFs are novel neural space representation models that can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ágoston István Csehi , Csaba Máté Józsa

We examine 3D reconstruction of architectural scenes in unordered sets of uncalibrated images. We introduce a linear method to self-calibrate and find the metric reconstruction of a camera pair. We assume unknown and different focal lengths…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Nikos Melanitis , Petros Maragos

While the problem of estimating shapes and diffuse reflectances of human faces from images has been extensively studied, there is relatively less work done on recovering the specular albedo. This paper presents a lightweight solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Guoxian Song , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham

Many real-world 3D reconstruction applications demand photorealism and metric accuracy across unbounded, complex scenes with challenging lighting and imperfect captures that current Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) pipelines only partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Vladislav Polianskii , Elijs Dima , Isabel Salmerón Marazuela , Gergő László Nagy , Sigurdur Sverrisson , Volodya Grancharov

The challenge of image-based 3D reconstruction for glossy objects lies in separating diffuse and specular components on glossy surfaces from captured images, a task complicated by the ambiguity in discerning lighting conditions and material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bojian Wu , Yifan Peng , Ruizhen Hu , Xiaowei Zhou

In this paper, we present a groundbreaking spectrally multiplexed photometric stereo approach for recovering surface normals of dynamic surfaces without the need for calibrated lighting or sensors, a notable advancement in the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

We address the problem of recovering the shape and spatially-varying reflectance of an object from multi-view images (and their camera poses) of an object illuminated by one unknown lighting condition. This enables the rendering of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xiuming Zhang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Paul Debevec , William T. Freeman , Jonathan T. Barron

Recent advances in surface reconstruction for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled remarkable geometric accuracy. However, their performance degrades in photometrically ambiguous regions such as reflective and textureless surfaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bo Guo , Sijia Wen , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Zhiming Zheng

Highly accurate 3D volumetric reconstruction is still an open research topic where the main difficulty is usually related to merging some rough estimations with high frequency details. One of the most promising methods is the fusion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Fotios Logothetis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla