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Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

A long-standing goal in scene understanding is to obtain interpretable and editable representations that can be directly constructed from a raw monocular RGB-D video, without requiring specialized hardware setup or priors. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yu-Shiang Wong , Niloy J. Mitra

Physically-based rendering (PBR) is key for immersive rendering effects used widely in the industry to showcase detailed realistic scenes from computer graphics assets. A well-known caveat is that producing the same is computationally heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jing Yang , Hanyuan Xiao , Wenbin Teng , Yunxuan Cai , Yajie Zhao

Since the generative neural networks have made a breakthrough in the image generation problem, lots of researches on their applications have been studied such as image restoration, style transfer and image completion. However, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jeesoo Kim , Jangho Kim , Jaeyoung Yoo , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

While the presentation of photo-realistic appearance plays a major role in immersion in an augmented virtuality environment, displaying the photo-realistic appearance of real objects remains a challenging problem. Recent developments in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yuichi Hiroi , Yuta Itoh , Jun Rekimoto

Neural networks have shown great potential in compressing volume data for visualization. However, due to the high cost of training and inference, such volumetric neural representations have thus far only been applied to offline data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Qi Wu , David Bauer , Michael J. Doyle , Kwan-Liu Ma

Photo-realistic free-viewpoint rendering of real-world scenes using classical computer graphics techniques is challenging, because it requires the difficult step of capturing detailed appearance and geometry models. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lingjie Liu , Jiatao Gu , Kyaw Zaw Lin , Tat-Seng Chua , Christian Theobalt

We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance and dynamics of a human face. Digitally modeling and reconstructing a talking human is a key building-block for a variety of applications. Especially, for telepresence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guy Gafni , Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

Some of the most exciting experiences that Metaverse promises to offer, for instance, live interactions with virtual characters in virtual environments, require real-time photo-realistic rendering. 3D reconstruction approaches to rendering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jiakai Zhang , Liao Wang , Xinhang Liu , Fuqiang Zhao , Minzhang Li , Haizhao Dai , Boyuan Zhang , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Haithem Turki , Vasu Agrawal , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder , Deva Ramanan , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs. Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Peng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

The realistic rendering of woven and knitted fabrics has posed significant challenges throughout many years. Previously, fiber-based micro-appearance models have achieved considerable success in attaining high levels of realism. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Guan Yu Soh , Zahra Montazeri

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

We present the first real-time method for inserting a rigid virtual object into a neural radiance field, which produces realistic lighting and shadowing effects, as well as allows interactive manipulation of the object. By exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Keyang Ye , Hongzhi Wu , Xin Tong , Kun Zhou

We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Recent work has demonstrated that volumetric scene representations combined with differentiable volume rendering can enable photo-realistic rendering for challenging scenes that mesh reconstruction fails on. However, these methods entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Fanbo Xiang , Zexiang Xu , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Hao Su

Obtaining 3D object representations is important for creating photo-realistic simulations and for collecting AR and VR assets. Neural fields have shown their effectiveness in learning a continuous volumetric representation of a scene from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ashkan Mirzaei , Yash Kant , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski

Efficient rendering of photo-realistic virtual worlds is a long standing effort of computer graphics. Modern graphics techniques have succeeded in synthesizing photo-realistic images from hand-crafted scene representations. However, the…

When created faithfully from real-world data, Digital 3D representations of objects can be useful for human or computer-assisted analysis. Such models can also serve for generating training data for machine learning approaches in settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 David Nakath , Xiangyu Weng , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser