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Recently, differentiable volume rendering in neural radiance fields (NeRF) has gained a lot of popularity, and its variants have attained many impressive results. However, existing methods usually assume the scene is a homogeneous volume so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jen-I Pan , Jheng-Wei Su , Kai-Wen Hsiao , Ting-Yu Yen , Hung-Kuo Chu

Methods for 3D reconstruction such as Photometric stereo recover the shape and reflectance properties using multiple images of an object taken with variable lighting conditions from a fixed viewpoint. Photometric stereo assumes that a scene…

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Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Curved refractive objects are common in the human environment, and have a complex visual appearance that can cause robotic vision algorithms to fail. Light-field cameras allow us to address this challenge by capturing the view-dependent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dorian Tsai , Peter Corke , Thierry Peynot , Donald G. Dansereau

Optical diffraction tomography measures the three-dimensional refractive index map of a specimen and visualizes biochemical phenomena at the nanoscale in a non-destructive manner. One major drawback of optical diffraction tomography is poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 DongHun Ryu , Dongmin Ryu , YoonSeok Baek , Hyungjoo Cho , Geon Kim , Young Seo Kim , Yongki Lee , Yoosik Kim , Jong Chul Ye , Hyun-Seok Min , YongKeun Park

Capturing the 3D geometry of transparent objects is a challenging task, ill-suited for general-purpose scanning and reconstruction techniques, since these cannot handle specular light transport phenomena. Existing state-of-the-art methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiahui Lyu , Bojian Wu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We introduce a single-frame diffractive imaging method called randomized probe imaging (RPI). In RPI, a sample is illuminated by a structured probe field containing speckles smaller than the sample's typical feature size. Quantitative…

We introduce a novel framework for solving inverse problems using NeRF-style generative models. We are interested in the problem of 3-D scene reconstruction given a single 2-D image and known camera parameters. We show that naively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Giannis Daras , Wen-Sheng Chu , Abhishek Kumar , Dmitry Lagun , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Inverse rendering aims to estimate physical attributes of a scene, e.g., reflectance, geometry, and lighting, from image(s). Inverse rendering has been studied primarily for single objects or with methods that solve for only one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Soumyadip Sengupta , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Guilin Liu , David W. Jacobs , Jan Kautz

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

Unlike opaque object, novel view synthesis of transparent object is a challenging task, because transparent object refracts light of background causing visual distortions on the transparent object surface along the viewpoint change.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Heechan Yoon , Seungkyu Lee

Reconstructing detailed 3D scenes from single-view images remains a challenging task due to limitations in existing approaches, which primarily focus on geometric shape recovery, overlooking object appearances and fine shape details. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yixin Chen , Junfeng Ni , Nan Jiang , Yaowei Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT) is a powerful non-invasive imaging technique widely used in biological and medical applications. While significant progress has been made in transmission configuration, reflection ODT remains challenging…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-14 Thomas Wasik , Victor Barolle , Alexandre Aubry , Josselin Garnier

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

We consider the problem of reconstructing a full 360{\deg} photographic model of an object from a single image of it. We do so by fitting a neural radiance field to the image, but find this problem to be severely ill-posed. We thus take an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Motivated by non-destructive testing of optical fiber, we consider the problem of determining the index of refraction of a two-dimensional medium from magnitude of the total field resulting from known incident plane waves at a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Yat Tin Chow , Fadil Santosa , Gunther Uhlmann

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

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