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Autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations around uncooperative, unknown spacecraft are critical for active debris removal and on-orbit servicing missions. A key component of such operations is the offline reconstruction of a 3D model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Antoine Legrand , Renaud Detry , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

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Recent advances in differentiable rendering, which allow calculating the gradients of 2D pixel values with respect to 3D object models, can be applied to estimation of the model parameters by gradient-based optimization with only 2D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yiping Xie , Nils Bore , John Folkesson

Combining satellite imagery with machine learning (SIML) has the potential to address global challenges by remotely estimating socioeconomic and environmental conditions in data-poor regions, yet the resource requirements of SIML limit its…

A 3D digital scene contains many components: lights, materials and geometries, interacting to reach the desired appearance. Staging such a scene is time-consuming and requires both artistic and technical skills. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Kai Yan , Fujun Luan , MiloŠ HaŠAn , Thibault Groueix , Valentin Deschaintre , Shuang Zhao

In this work, the seasonal predictive capabilities of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) applied to satellite images are investigated. Focusing on the utilization of satellite data, the study explores how Sat-NeRF, a novel approach in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Liv Kåreborn , Erica Ingerstad , Amanda Berg , Justus Karlsson , Leif Haglund

The lack of labeled datasets in 3D vision for surgical scenes inhibits the development of robust 3D reconstruction algorithms in the medical domain. Despite the popularity of Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting in the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 John J. Han , Jie Ying Wu

The advancement of generative radiance fields has pushed the boundary of 3D-aware image synthesis. Motivated by the observation that a 3D object should look realistic from multiple viewpoints, these methods introduce a multi-view constraint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Xingang Pan , Xudong Xu , Chen Change Loy , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai

Advances in 3D reconstruction using neural rendering have enabled high-quality 3D capture. However, they often fail when the input imagery is corrupted by motion blur, due to fast motion of the camera or the objects in the scene. This work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Sai Sri Teja , Sreevidya Chintalapati , Vinayak Gupta , Mukund Varma T , Haejoon Lee , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Kaushik Mitra

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

The emerging Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) shows great potential in representing 3D scenes, which can render photo-realistic images from novel view with only sparse views given. However, utilizing NeRF to reconstruct real-world scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chenbin Li , Yu Xin , Gaoyi Liu , Xiang Zeng , Ligang Liu

Monitoring space objects is crucial for space situational awareness, yet reconstructing 3D satellite models from ground-based telescope images is challenging due to atmospheric turbulence, long observation distances, limited viewpoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiming Chang , Boyang Liu , Yifei Xia , Youming Guo , Boxin Shi , He Sun

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have gained prominence as a machine learning technique for representing 3D scenes and estimating the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) from multiple images. However, most existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lulin Zhang , Ewelina Rupnik , Tri Dung Nguyen , Stéphane Jacquemoud , Yann Klinger

Obtaining a better knowledge of the current state and behavior of objects orbiting Earth has proven to be essential for a range of applications such as active debris removal, in-orbit maintenance, or anomaly detection. 3D models represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Clément Forray , Pauline Delporte , Nicolas Delaygue , Florence Genin , Dawa Derksen

Many real-world 3D reconstruction applications demand photorealism and metric accuracy across unbounded, complex scenes with challenging lighting and imperfect captures that current Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) pipelines only partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Vladislav Polianskii , Elijs Dima , Isabel Salmerón Marazuela , Gergő László Nagy , Sigurdur Sverrisson , Volodya Grancharov

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

Neural implicit representation of visual scenes has attracted a lot of attention in recent research of computer vision and graphics. Most prior methods focus on how to reconstruct 3D scene representation from a set of images. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Wenpu Li , Pian Wan , Peng Wang , Jinghang Li , Yi Zhou , Peidong Liu

Generating a street-level 3D scene from a single satellite image is a crucial yet challenging task. Current methods present a stark trade-off: geometry-colorization models achieve high geometric fidelity but are typically building-focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ming Qian , Zimin Xia , Changkun Liu , Shuailei Ma , Wen Wang , Zeran Ke , Bin Tan , Hang Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell