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In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chun Gu , Xiaofei Wei , Zixuan Zeng , Yuxuan Yao , Li Zhang

The relatively hot temperature of the human body causes people to turn into long-wave infrared light sources. Since this emitted light has a larger wavelength than visible light, many surfaces in typical scenes act as infrared mirrors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ruoshi Liu , Carl Vondrick

Visual object tracking under challenging conditions of motion and light can be hindered by the capabilities of conventional cameras, prone to producing images with motion blur. Event cameras are novel sensors suited to robustly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

Current multi-view 3D object detection methods typically transfer 2D features into 3D space using depth estimation or 3D position encoder, but in a fully data-driven and implicit manner, which limits the detection performance. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Geometry reconstruction of textureless, non-Lambertian objects under unknown natural illumination (i.e., in the wild) remains challenging as correspondences cannot be established and the reflectance cannot be expressed in simple analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Kohei Yamashita , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Transparent and specular objects are frequently encountered in daily life, factories, and laboratories. However, due to the unique optical properties, the depth information on these objects is usually incomplete and inaccurate, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yizhe Liu , Tong Jia , Da Cai , Hao Wang , Dongyue Chen

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a popular technique that allows the recovery of per-pixel reflectance information by capturing an object under different light conditions. This can be later used to reveal surface details and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Mara Pistellato , Filippo Bergamasco

Glossy objects present a significant challenge for 3D reconstruction from multi-view input images under natural lighting. In this paper, we introduce PBIR-NIE, an inverse rendering framework designed to holistically capture the geometry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Guangyan Cai , Fujun Luan , Miloš Hašan , Kai Zhang , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Iliyan Georgiev , Shuang Zhao

Recently, it was demonstrated that active sources can be used to cloak any objects that lie outside the cloaking devices [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{103}, 073901 (2009)]. Here, we propose that active sources can create illusion effects, so…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-04 H. H. Zheng , J. J. Xiao , Y. Lai , C. T. Chan

Formation of a bright-field microscopic image of a transparent phase object is described in terms of elementary geometrical optics. Our approach is based on the premise that image replicates the intensity distribution (real or virtual) at…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. K. Khitrin , M. A. Model

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

In this paper, we define a new problem of recovering the 3D geometry of an object confined in a transparent enclosure. We also propose a novel method for solving this challenging problem. Transparent enclosures pose challenges of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jinguang Tong , Sundaram Muthu , Fahira Afzal Maken , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieve impressive view synthesis results for a variety of capture settings, including 360 capture of bounded scenes and forward-facing capture of bounded and unbounded scenes. NeRF fits multi-layer perceptrons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Zhang , Gernot Riegler , Noah Snavely , Vladlen Koltun

In low-light environments, conventional cameras often struggle to capture clear multi-view images of objects due to dynamic range limitations and motion blur caused by long exposure. Event cameras, with their high-dynamic range and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingqian Wu , Peiqi Duan , Zongqiang Wang , Changwei Wang , Boxin Shi , Edmund Y. Lam

We describe and experimentally validate an algorithm to reconstruct an unknown extended object from through-focus measured image intensities blurred by unknown aberrations. It is shown that the method can recover diffraction-limited image…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-29 Yifeng Shao , Niek Doelman , Silvania F. Pereira , H. Paul Urbach

We introduce ROGR, a novel approach that reconstructs a relightable 3D model of an object captured from multiple views, driven by a generative relighting model that simulates the effects of placing the object under novel environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiapeng Tang , Matthew Levine , Dor Verbin , Stephan J. Garbin , Matthias Nießner , Ricardo Martin Brualla , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Philipp Henzler

In this paper, we propose a method to segment and recover a static, clean background and multiple 360$^\circ$ objects from observations of scenes at different timestamps. Recent works have used neural radiance fields to model 3D scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Tianhan Xu , Takuya Ikeda , Koichi Nishiwaki

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing the surface shape of transparent objects. The difficulty of this problem originates from the viewpoint dependent appearance of a transparent object, which quickly makes reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Miaomiao Liu

Current methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) significantly lack the capacity to quantify uncertainty in their predictions, particularly on the unseen space including the occluded and outside scene content. This limitation hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jianxiong Shen , Ruijie Ren , Adria Ruiz , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Mirror-containing environments pose unique challenges for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis (NVS), as reflective surfaces introduce view-dependent distortions and inconsistencies. While cutting-edge methods such as Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zijing Guo , Yunyang Zhao , Lin Wang