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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

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

We show that, with polarization cues, a lightweight model trained on a small dataset can outperform RGB-only vision foundation models (VFMs) in single-shot object-level surface normal estimation. Shape from polarization (SfP) has long been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Chenhao Li , Taishi Ono , Takeshi Uemori , Yusuke Moriuchi

We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory…

We present a neural-based model for relighting a half-body portrait image by simply referring to another portrait image with the desired lighting condition. Rather than following classical inverse rendering methodology that involves…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Guoxian Song , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Autonomous robotics is critically affected by the robustness of its scene understanding algorithms. We propose a two-axis pipeline based on polarization indices to analyze dynamic urban scenes. As robots evolve in unknown environments, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marc Blanchon , Désiré Sidibé , Olivier Morel , Ralph Seulin , Fabrice Meriaudeau

In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

This tutorial paper describes the problem of image reconstruction from interferometric data with a particular focus on the specific problems encountered at optical (visible/IR) wavelengths. The challenging issues in image reconstruction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Éric Thiébaut , Jean-François Giovannelli

Implicit surface representations such as the signed distance function (SDF) have emerged as a promising approach for image-based surface reconstruction. However, existing optimization methods assume solid surfaces and are therefore unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tianhao Wu , Hanxue Liang , Fangcheng Zhong , Gernot Riegler , Shimon Vainer , Jiankang Deng , Cengiz Oztireli

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in computer vision and computational imaging. INRs represent images as continuous domain functions realized by a neural network taking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

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

Multi-view 3D surface reconstruction using neural implicit representations has made notable progress by modeling the geometry and view-dependent radiance fields within a unified framework. However, their effectiveness in reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zijie Jiang , Tianhan Xu , Hiroharu Kato

Recently it has been shown that the modules and phase of complex reflection coefficient can be determined by using a magnetic substrate and polarized neutrons. Several other methods have also been worked out based on measurement of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

6D pose estimation pipelines that rely on RGB-only or RGB-D data show limitations for photometrically challenging objects with e.g. textureless surfaces, reflections or transparency. A supervised learning-based method utilising…

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This work introduces a novel Fourier phase retrieval model, called polarimetric phase retrieval that enables a systematic use of polarization information in Fourier phase retrieval problems. We provide a complete characterization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Julien Flamant , Konstantin Usevich , Marianne Clausel , David Brie

Current object recognition methods fail on object sets that include both diffuse, reflective and transparent materials, although they are very common in domestic scenarios. We show that a combination of cues from multiple sensor modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Alexander Hagg , Frederik Hegger , Paul Plöger

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Julian Ost , Tanushree Banerjee , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

In this paper we present a differential approach to photo-polarimetric shape estimation. We propose several alternative differential constraints based on polarisation and photometric shading information and show how to express them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Silvia Tozza , William A. P. Smith , Dizhong Zhu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Edwin R. Hancock

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner