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We present differentiable point-based inverse rendering, DPIR, an analysis-by-synthesis method that processes images captured under diverse illuminations to estimate shape and spatially-varying BRDF. To this end, we adopt point-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Seokjun Choi , Seung-Hwan Baek

Reconstructing an object's geometry and appearance from multiple images, also known as inverse rendering, is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and vision. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed because the captured image is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Akshat Dave , Yongyi Zhao , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Traditional inverse rendering techniques are based on textured meshes, which naturally adapts to modern graphics pipelines, but costly differentiable multi-bounce Monte Carlo (MC) ray tracing poses challenges for modeling global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiakai Sun , Weijing Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang , Tianyi Chu , Guangyuan Li , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing

We propose TensoIR, a novel inverse rendering approach based on tensor factorization and neural fields. Unlike previous works that use purely MLP-based neural fields, thus suffering from low capacity and high computation costs, we extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haian Jin , Isabella Liu , Peijia Xu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Songfang Han , Sai Bi , Xiaowei Zhou , Zexiang Xu , Hao Su

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

We present a efficient multi-view inverse rendering method for large-scale real-world indoor scenes that reconstructs global illumination and physically-reasonable SVBRDFs. Unlike previous representations, where the global illumination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhen Li , Lingli Wang , Mofang Cheng , Cihui Pan , Jiaqi Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end relightable neural inverse rendering system that achieves high-quality reconstruction of geometry and material properties, thus enabling high-quality relighting. The cornerstone of our method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Deheng Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Sergey Prokudin , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Siyu Tang

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Inverse rendering seeks to recover 3D geometry, surface material, and lighting from captured images, enabling advanced applications such as novel-view synthesis, relighting, and virtual object insertion. However, most existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chih-Hao Lin , Jia-Bin Huang , Zhengqin Li , Zhao Dong , Christian Richardt , Tuotuo Li , Michael Zollhöfer , Johannes Kopf , Shenlong Wang , Changil Kim

This paper addresses the task of estimating the light arriving from all directions to a 3D point observed at a selected pixel in an RGB image. This task is challenging because it requires predicting a mapping from a partial scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shuran Song , Thomas Funkhouser

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

We present the first system for physically based, neural inverse rendering from multi-viewpoint videos of propagating light. Our approach relies on a time-resolved extension of neural radiance caching -- a technique that accelerates inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Anagh Malik , Benjamin Attal , Andrew Xie , Matthew O'Toole , David B. Lindell

We present MIRReS, a novel two-stage inverse rendering framework that jointly reconstructs and optimizes the explicit geometry, material, and lighting from multi-view images. Unlike previous methods that rely on implicit irradiance fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuxin Dai , Qi Wang , Jingsen Zhu , Dianbing Xi , Yuchi Huo , Chen Qian , Ying He

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jon Hasselgren , Nikolai Hofmann , Jacob Munkberg

Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Huan Ling , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zhi-Hao Lin , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Inverse rendering aims to decompose a scene into its geometry, material properties and light conditions under a certain rendering model. It has wide applications like view synthesis, relighting, and scene editing. In recent years, inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Geng Lin , Matthias Zwicker

The goal of inverse rendering is to decompose geometry, lights, and materials given pose multi-view images. To achieve this goal, we propose neural direct and joint inverse rendering, NDJIR. Different from prior works which relies on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Kazuki Yoshiyama , Takuya Narihira

Physics-based differentiable rendering has emerged as a powerful technique in computer graphics and vision, with a broad range of applications in solving inverse rendering tasks. At its core, differentiable rendering enables the computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yunfan Zeng , Guangyan Cai , Shuang Zhao

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell