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Casually-taken portrait photographs often suffer from unflattering lighting and shadowing because of suboptimal conditions in the environment. Aesthetic qualities such as the position and softness of shadows and the lighting ratio between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Jonathan T. Barron , Yun-Ta Tsai , Rohit Pandey , Xiuming Zhang , Ren Ng , David E. Jacobs

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

This paper introduces a novel pipeline for generating large-scale, highly realistic, and automatically labeled datasets for computer vision tasks in robotic environments. Our approach addresses the critical challenges of the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Patryk Niżeniec , Marcin Iwanowski

Portrait images often suffer from undesirable shadows cast by casual objects or even the face itself. While existing methods for portrait shadow removal require training on a large-scale synthetic dataset, we propose the first unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Tianjia Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Efficient neural representations for dynamic video scenes are critical for applications ranging from video compression to interactive simulations. Yet, existing methods often face challenges related to high memory usage, lengthy training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Andrew Bond , Jui-Hsien Wang , Long Mai , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

We present a spatial and angular Gaussian based representation and a triple splatting process, for real-time, high-quality novel lighting-and-view synthesis from multi-view point-lit input images. To describe complex appearance, we employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zoubin Bi , Yixin Zeng , Chong Zeng , Fan Pei , Xiang Feng , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

Gaussian Splatting has become the method of choice for 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering of captured real scenes. However, fine appearance details need to be represented as a large number of small Gaussian primitives, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Panagiotis Papantonakis , Georgios Kopanas , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis

Searching for a unified scene representation remains a research challenge in computer graphics. Traditional mesh-based representations are unsuitable for dense, fuzzy elements, and introduce additional complexity for filtering and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yang Zhou , Songyin Wu , Ling-Qi Yan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its real-time, photo-realistic rendering in novel-view synthesis and 3D modeling. However, existing methods struggle with accurately modeling in-the-wild scenes affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Chuanyu Fu , Guanying Chen , Yuqi Zhang , Kunbin Yao , Yuan Xiong , Chuan Huang , Shuguang Cui , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Xiaochun Cao

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

Differentiable rendering techniques have recently shown promising results for free-viewpoint video synthesis of characters. However, such methods, either Gaussian Splatting or neural implicit rendering, typically necessitate per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Boyao Zhou , Shunyuan Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

Humans have the remarkable ability to construct consistent mental models of an environment, even under limited or varying levels of illumination. We wish to endow robots with this same capability. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyi Zhang , Kaining Huang , Weiming Zhi , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

3D reconstruction and relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced high-quality novel view synthesis at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Arjun Majumdar , Andreas Engelhardt , Raphael Braun , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Decomposing geometry, materials and lighting from a set of images, namely inverse rendering, has been a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. Recent advances in neural rendering enable photo-realistic and plausible inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Silong Yong , Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan , Bernhard Kerbl , Zifu Wan , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Krzysztof Byrski , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Marcin Kądziołka , Dawid Baran , Przemysław Spurek

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has emerged as an effective representation for photorealistic rendering, but the underlying geometry, material, and lighting remain entangled, hindering scene editing. Existing GS-based methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kang Du , Zhihao Liang , Yulin Shen , Zeyu Wang

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in real-time and photorealistic novel view synthesis. However, traditional 3DGS representations often struggle with large-scale scene management and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zijian Wang , Beizhen Zhao , Hao Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting shows great potential in reconstructing photo-realistic 3D scenes. However, these methods typically bake illumination into their representations, limiting their use for physically-based rendering and scene editing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zirui Wu , Jianteng Chen , Laijian Li , Shaoteng Wu , Zhikai Zhu , Kang Xu , Martin R. Oswald , Jie Song

Shadow art is a captivating form of sculptural expression where the projection of a sculpture in a specific direction reveals a desired shape with high precision. In this work, we introduce Neural Shadow Art, which leverages implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Caoliwen Wang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang