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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

We address the problem of recovering the shape and spatially-varying reflectance of an object from multi-view images (and their camera poses) of an object illuminated by one unknown lighting condition. This enables the rendering of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xiuming Zhang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Paul Debevec , William T. Freeman , Jonathan T. Barron

Neural rendering algorithms have revolutionized computer graphics, yet their impact on real-time rendering under arbitrary lighting conditions remains limited due to strict latency constraints in practical applications. The key challenge…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yijie Deng , Lei Han , Lu Fang

Computer vision applications have heavily relied on the linear combination of Lambertian diffuse and microfacet specular reflection models for representing reflected radiance, which turns out to be physically incompatible and limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Tomoki Ichikawa , Yoshiki Fukao , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is an essential tool to capture the complex interaction of light and matter. Recently, several works have employed neural methods for BRDF modeling, following various strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Florian Hofherr , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

We propose a novel method to reconstruct the 3D shapes of transparent objects using hand-held captured images under natural light conditions. It combines the advantage of explicit mesh and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network, a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jiamin Xu , Zihan Zhu , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

We propose a material appearance modeling neural network for visualizing plausible, spatially-varying materials under diverse view and lighting conditions, utilizing only a single photograph of a material under co-located light and view as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jay Idema , Pieter Peers

Accurately evaluating the quality of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models is essential for photo-realistic rendering. Traditional BRDF-space metrics often employ numerical error measures that fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Behnaz Kavoosighafi , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Saghi Hajisharif , Ehsan Miandji , Jonas Unger

We present a method for composing photorealistic scenes from captured images of objects. Our work builds upon neural radiance fields (NeRFs), which implicitly model the volumetric density and directionally-emitted radiance of a scene. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Michelle Guo , Alireza Fathi , Jiajun Wu , Thomas Funkhouser

We present a novel BSSRDF for rendering translucent materials. Angular effects lacking in previous BSSRDF models are incorporated by using a dual-beam formulation. We employ a Placzek's Lemma interpretation of the method of images and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Eugene d'Eon

We introduce the physically based neural bidirectional reflectance distribution function (PBNBRDF), a novel, continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately reconstructs real-world materials…

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have achieved impressive view synthesis results by learning an implicit volumetric representation from multi-view images. To project the implicit representation into an image, NeRF employs volume rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Y. Wang , J. Xu , Y. Zeng , Y. Gong

We introduce Multi-Object Generative Perception (MultiGP), a generative inverse rendering method for stochastic sampling of all radiometric constituents -- reflectance, texture, and illumination -- underlying object appearance from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nobuo Yoshii , Xinran Nicole Han , Ryo Kawahara , Todd Zickler , Ko Nishino

We present Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF), an object-aware neural scene representation that decomposes a scene into a set of objects (things) and background (stuff). Each object is represented by an oriented 3D bounding box and a multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhijit Kundu , Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , Caroline Pantofaru , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Frank Dellaert , Thomas Funkhouser

Structural coloration is commonly modeled using wave optics for reliable and photorealistic rendering of natural, quasi-periodic and complex nanostructures. Such models often rely on dense, preliminary or preprocessed data to accurately…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Narayan Kandel , Daljit Singh J. S. Dhillon

NeRF-based techniques fit wide and deep multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to a continuous radiance field that can be rendered from any unseen viewpoint. However, the lack of surface and normals definition and high rendering times limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Stefano Esposito , Daniele Baieri , Stefan Zellmann , André Hinkenjann , Emanuele Rodolà

Implicit surface representations such as the signed distance function (SDF) have emerged as a promising approach for image-based surface reconstruction. However, existing optimization methods assume solid surfaces and are therefore unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tianhao Wu , Hanxue Liang , Fangcheng Zhong , Gernot Riegler , Shimon Vainer , Jiankang Deng , Cengiz Oztireli

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a popular view synthesis technique that represents a scene as a continuous volumetric function, parameterized by multilayer perceptrons that provide the volume density and view-dependent emitted radiance at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Dor Verbin , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Todd Zickler , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan

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

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have revolutionized the field of image-based view synthesis. However, NeRF uses straight rays and fails to deal with complicated light path changes caused by refraction and reflection. This prevents NeRF from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoxue Chen , Junchen Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Ya-Qin Zhang