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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…

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Reconstruction and intrinsic decomposition of scenes from captured imagery would enable many applications such as relighting and virtual object insertion. Recent NeRF based methods achieve impressive fidelity of 3D reconstruction, but bake…

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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…

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We introduce inverse transport networks as a learning architecture for inverse rendering problems where, given input image measurements, we seek to infer physical scene parameters such as shape, material, and illumination. During training,…

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The emergence of neural and Gaussian-based radiance field methods has led to considerable advancements in novel view synthesis and 3D object reconstruction. Nonetheless, specular reflection and refraction continue to pose significant…

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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

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

Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance from captured images. Display-camera imaging systems offer unique advantages for this task: each pixel can easily function as a programmable point light source, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Seokjun Choi , Hoon-Gyu Chung , Yujin Jeon , Giljoo Nam , Seung-Hwan Baek

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

Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also to the new lighting…

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Physics-based inverse rendering enables joint optimization of shape, material, and lighting based on captured 2D images. To ensure accurate reconstruction, using a light model that closely resembles the captured environment is essential.…

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We introduce InverseFaceNet, a deep convolutional inverse rendering framework for faces that jointly estimates facial pose, shape, expression, reflectance and illumination from a single input image. By estimating all parameters from just a…

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Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guangyan Cai , Kai Yan , Zhao Dong , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Shuang Zhao

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

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Decomposing geometry, materials and lighting from a set of images, namely inverse rendering, has been a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. Recent advances in neural rendering enable photo-realistic and plausible inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Silong Yong , Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan , Bernhard Kerbl , Zifu Wan , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

We present InvRGB+L, a novel inverse rendering model that reconstructs large, relightable, and dynamic scenes from a single RGB+LiDAR sequence. Conventional inverse graphics methods rely primarily on RGB observations and use LiDAR mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaoxue Chen , Bhargav Chandaka , Chih-Hao Lin , Ya-Qin Zhang , David Forsyth , Hao Zhao , Shenlong Wang

Modern computer vision algorithms have brought significant advancement to 3D geometry reconstruction. However, illumination and material reconstruction remain less studied, with current approaches assuming very simplified models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dejan Azinović , Tzu-Mao Li , Anton Kaplanyan , Matthias Nießner

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

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