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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…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enable 3D scene reconstruction from 2D images and camera poses for Novel View Synthesis (NVS). Although NeRF can produce photorealistic results, it often suffers from overfitting to training views, leading to…

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3D semantic scene understanding is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. It enables mobile agents to autonomously plan and navigate arbitrary environments. SSC formalizes this challenge as jointly estimating dense geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Adrian Hayler , Felix Wimbauer , Dominik Muhle , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

3D scene reconstruction from a single measurement is challenging, especially in the presence of occluded regions and specular materials, such as mirrors. We address these challenges by leveraging single-photon lidars. These lidars estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Siddharth Somasundaram , Xiaoyu Xiang , Yuchen Fan , Christian Richardt , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar , Rakesh Ranjan

In the realm of digital situational awareness during disaster situations, accurate digital representations, like 3D models, play an indispensable role. To ensure the safety of rescue teams, robotic platforms are often deployed to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Hartmut Surmann , Niklas Digakis , Jan-Nicklas Kremer , Julien Meine , Max Schulte , Niklas Voigt

In recent years, the development of Neural Radiance Fields has enabled a previously unseen level of photo-realistic 3D reconstruction of scenes and objects from multi-view camera data. However, previous methods use an oversimplified pinhole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yi Hua , Christoph Lassner , Carsten Stoll , Iain Matthews

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith

The reconstruction of accurate three-dimensional environment models is one of the most fundamental goals in the field of photogrammetry. Since satellite images provide suitable properties for obtaining large-scale environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

We propose a novel visual re-localization method based on direct matching between the implicit 3D descriptors and the 2D image with transformer. A conditional neural radiance field(NeRF) is chosen as the 3D scene representation in our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jianlin Liu , Qiang Nie , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang

3D data derived from satellite images is essential for scene modeling applications requiring large-scale coverage or involving locations not accessible by airborne lidar or cameras. Measuring the resolution of this data is important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christina Selby , Holden Bindl , Tyler Feldman , Andrew Skow , Nicolas Norena Acosta , Shea Hagstrom , Myron Brown

We present a novel approach to perform 3D semantic segmentation solely from 2D supervision by leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). By extracting features along a surface point cloud, we achieve a compact representation of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Dominik Hollidt , Clinton Wang , Polina Golland , Marc Pollefeys

Dense 3D reconstruction has many applications in automated driving including automated annotation validation, multimodal data augmentation, providing ground truth annotations for systems lacking LiDAR, as well as enhancing auto-labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jon Hasselgren , Nikolai Hofmann , Jacob Munkberg

Side-scan sonar (SSS) imagery is widely used for seafloor mapping and underwater remote sensing, yet the measured intensity is strongly influenced by seabed reflectivity, terrain elevation, and acoustic path loss. This entanglement makes…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Can Lei , Hayat Rajani , Nuno Gracias , Rafael Garcia , Huigang Wang

Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) structures from two-dimensional (2D) X-ray images is a valuable and efficient technique in medical applications that requires less radiation exposure than computed tomography scans. Recent approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chengrui Zhu , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Masataka Kagesawa , Tomohisa Yuzawa , Toru Watsuji , Takeshi Oishi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated prominent performance in novel view synthesis. However, their input heavily relies on image acquisition under normal light conditions, making it challenging to learn accurate scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Min Wang , Xin Huang , Guoqing Zhou , Qifeng Guo , Qing Wang

Image data captured outdoors often exhibit unbounded scenes and unconstrained, varying lighting conditions, making it challenging to decompose them into geometry, reflectance, and illumination. Recent works have focused on achieving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lianjun Liao , Chunhui Zhang , Tong Wu , Henglei Lv , Bailin Deng , Lin Gao

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) coupled with GANs represent a promising direction in the area of 3D reconstruction from a single view, owing to their ability to efficiently model arbitrary topologies. Recent work in this area, however, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dario Pavllo , David Joseph Tan , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari

We propose a neural inverse rendering approach that jointly reconstructs geometry, spatially varying reflectance, and lighting conditions from multi-view images captured under varying directional lighting. Unlike prior multi-view…

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