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We propose SDFDiff, a novel approach for image-based shape optimization using differentiable rendering of 3D shapes represented by signed distance functions (SDFs). Compared to other representations, SDFs have the advantage that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yue Jiang , Dantong Ji , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

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

We present a differentiable volume rendering solution that provides differentiability of all continuous parameters of the volume rendering process. This differentiable renderer is used to steer the parameters towards a setting with an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sebastian Weiss , Rüdiger Westermann

Reconstructing an object's high-quality 3D shape with inherent spectral reflectance property, beyond typical device-dependent RGB albedos, opens the door to applications requiring a high-fidelity 3D model in terms of both geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chunyu Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

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

In this paper, we present a novel differentiable point-based rendering framework to achieve photo-realistic relighting. To make the reconstructed scene relightable, we enhance vanilla 3D Gaussians by associating extra properties, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jian Gao , Chun Gu , Youtian Lin , Zhihao Li , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Li Zhang , Yao Yao

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

We tackle the ill-posed inverse rendering problem in 3D reconstruction with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approach informed by Physics-Based Rendering (PBR) theory, named PBR-NeRF. Our method addresses a key limitation in most NeRF and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sean Wu , Shamik Basu , Tim Broedermann , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

Volumetric neural rendering methods like NeRF generate high-quality view synthesis results but are optimized per-scene leading to prohibitive reconstruction time. On the other hand, deep multi-view stereo methods can quickly reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Qiangeng Xu , Zexiang Xu , Julien Philip , Sai Bi , Zhixin Shu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ulrich Neumann

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

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

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

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

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

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

We introduce a method for high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Our method uses a new point-based representation, the regularized dipole sum, which generalizes the winding number to allow for interpolation of per-point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hanyu Chen , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Reconstructing the shape and appearance of real-world objects using measured 2D images has been a long-standing problem in computer vision. In this paper, we introduce a new analysis-by-synthesis technique capable of producing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Zhao Dong