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Accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for downstream robotic tasks such as navigation, manipulation, and environment understanding. However, obtaining precise camera poses in real-world settings remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sriram Srinivasan , Gautam Ramachandra

Recent extended reality headsets and field robots have adopted covers to protect the front-facing cameras from environmental hazards and falls. The surface irregularities on the cover can lead to optical aberrations like blurring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Liuyue Xie , Jiancong Guo , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zhiheng Jia , Mingyang Li , Yunwen Zhou , Chao Guo

Surface reconstruction from sparse views aims to reconstruct a 3D shape or scene from few RGB images. The latest methods are either generalization-based or overfitting-based. However, the generalization-based methods do not generalize well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Liang Han , Xu Zhang , Haichuan Song , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Reconstruction and intrinsic decomposition of scenes from captured imagery would enable many applications such as relighting and virtual object insertion. Recent NeRF based methods achieve impressive fidelity of 3D reconstruction, but bake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Shengyu Huang , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zan Gojcic , Wenzheng Chen , Sanja Fidler

Neural volume rendering became increasingly popular recently due to its success in synthesizing novel views of a scene from a sparse set of input images. So far, the geometry learned by neural volume rendering techniques was modeled using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Lior Yariv , Jiatao Gu , Yoni Kasten , Yaron Lipman

The creation of a volumetric mesh representing the interior of an input polygonal mesh is a common requirement in graphics and computational mechanics applications. Most mesh creation techniques assume that the input surface is not…

Making generative models 3D-aware bridges the 2D image space and the 3D physical world yet remains challenging. Recent attempts equip a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), which maps 3D coordinates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yinghao Xu , Sida Peng , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown remarkable performance in neural rendering-based novel view synthesis. However, NeRF suffers from severe visual quality degradation when the input images have been captured under imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Byeonghyeon Lee , Howoong Lee , Usman Ali , Eunbyung Park

Inverse rendering aims at recovering both geometry and materials of objects. It provides a more compatible reconstruction for conventional rendering engines, compared with the neural radiance fields (NeRFs). On the other hand, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyuan Wang , Wenbo Hu , Lei Zhu , Rynson W. H. Lau

This paper aims to develop an accurate 3D geometry representation of satellite images using satellite-ground image pairs. Our focus is on the challenging problem of 3D-aware ground-views synthesis from a satellite image. We draw inspiration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ming Qian , Jincheng Xiong , Gui-Song Xia , Nan Xue

The neural radiance fields (NeRF) have emerged as a prominent methodology for synthesizing realistic images of novel views. While neural radiance representations based on voxels or mesh individually offer distinct advantages, excelling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chenhao Zhang , Yongyang Zhou , Lei Zhang

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is revolutionizing the task of novel view synthesis (NVS) for its superior performance. In this paper, we propose to synthesize dynamic scenes. Extending the methods for static scenes to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiang Guo , Guanying Chen , Yuchao Dai , Xiaoqing Ye , Jiadai Sun , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Parametric feature grid encodings have gained significant attention as an encoding approach for neural fields since they allow for much smaller MLPs, which significantly decreases the inference time of the models. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mihir Mahajan , Florian Hofherr , Daniel Cremers

The goal of this work is to perform 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis from data captured by scanning platforms commonly deployed for world mapping in urban outdoor environments (e.g., Street View). Given a sequence of posed RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Konstantinos Rematas , Andrew Liu , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Thomas Funkhouser , Vittorio Ferrari

Photo-realistic modeling and rendering of fuzzy objects with complex opacity are critical for numerous immersive VR/AR applications, but it suffers from strong view-dependent brightness, color. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Haimin Luo , Anpei Chen , Qixuan Zhang , Bai Pang , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has achieved unprecedented view synthesis quality using coordinate-based neural scene representations. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle simple reflections like highlights but cannot deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yuan-Chen Guo , Di Kang , Linchao Bao , Yu He , Song-Hai Zhang

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian representations have significantly improved the quality and efficiency of image-based scene reconstruction. Their explicit nature facilitates real-time rendering and fast optimization, yet extracting accurate…

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

Recent advances in neural implicit surfaces for multi-view 3D reconstruction primarily focus on improving large-scale surface reconstruction accuracy, but often produce over-smoothed geometries that lack fine surface details. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Erich Liang , Kenan Deng , Xi Zhang , Chun-Kai Wang