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This paper addresses the limitations of neural rendering-based multi-view surface reconstruction methods, which require an additional mesh extraction step that is inconvenient and would produce poor-quality surfaces with mesh aliasing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qitong Zhang , Jieqing Feng

We present a physics-based inverse rendering method that learns the illumination, geometry, and materials of a scene from posed multi-view RGB images. To model the illumination of a scene, existing inverse rendering works either completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Youming Deng , Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Inverse problems exist in a wide variety of physical domains from aerospace engineering to medical imaging. The goal is to infer the underlying state from a set of observations. When the forward model that produced the observations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Chelsea Sidrane , Sydney Katz , Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Rendering novel views from captured multi-view images has made considerable progress since the emergence of the neural radiance field. This paper aims to further advance the quality of view synthesis by proposing a novel approach dubbed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kang Han , Wei Xiang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), as an implicit 3D scene representation, lacks inherent ability to accommodate changes made to the initial static scene. If objects are reconfigured, it is difficult to update the NeRF to reflect the new state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziqi Lu , Jianbo Ye , Xiaohan Fei , Xiaolong Li , Jiawei Mo , Ashwin Swaminathan , Stefano Soatto

We introduce ViewNeRF, a Neural Radiance Field-based viewpoint estimation method that learns to predict category-level viewpoints directly from images during training. While NeRF is usually trained with ground-truth camera poses, multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

Recent neural rendering and reconstruction techniques, such as NeRFs or Gaussian Splatting, have shown remarkable novel view synthesis capabilities but require hundreds of images of the scene from diverse viewpoints to render high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Felix Tristram , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proven to be powerful 3D representations, capable of high quality novel view synthesis of complex scenes. While NeRFs have been applied to graphics, vision, and robotics, problems with slow rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Ashkan Mirzaei , Marcus A. Brubaker , Jonathan Kelly , Alex Levinshtein , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Igor Gilitschenski

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieve photo-realistic view synthesis with densely captured input images. However, the geometry of NeRF is extremely under-constrained given sparse views, resulting in significant degradation of novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zheng Chen , Chen Wang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

Texture synthesis is a fundamental problem in computer graphics that would benefit various applications. Existing methods are effective in handling 2D image textures. In contrast, many real-world textures contain meso-structure in the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yi-Hua Huang , Yan-Pei Cao , Yu-Kun Lai , Ying Shan , Lin Gao

We propose to tackle the multiview photometric stereo problem using an extension of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), conditioned on light source direction. The geometric part of our neural representation predicts surface normal direction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meghna Asthana , William A. P. Smith , Patrik Huber

Neural Radiance Fields from Sparse input} (NeRF-S) have shown great potential in synthesizing novel views with a limited number of observed viewpoints. However, due to the inherent limitations of sparse inputs and the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yanqi Bao , Yuxin Li , Jing Huo , Tianyu Ding , Xinyue Liang , Wenbin Li , Yang Gao

Multi-view inverse rendering aims to recover geometry, materials, and illumination consistently across multiple viewpoints. When applied to multi-view images, existing single-view approaches often ignore cross-view relationships, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xiangzuo Wu , Chengwei Ren , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li , Yuan Liu

Editing High Dynamic Range (HDR) environment maps using an inverse differentiable rendering architecture is a complex inverse problem due to the sparsity of relevant pixels and the challenges in balancing light sources and background. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Antonio D'Orazio , Davide Sforza , Fabio Pellacini , Iacopo Masi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a popular approach for novel view synthesis. While NeRFs are quickly being adapted for a wider set of applications, intuitively editing NeRF scenes is still an open challenge. One important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Ashkan Mirzaei , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Jonathan Kelly , Marcus A. Brubaker , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

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

Implicit neural representations have shown compelling results in offline 3D reconstruction and also recently demonstrated the potential for online SLAM systems. However, applying them to autonomous 3D reconstruction, where a robot is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yunlong Ran , Jing Zeng , Shibo He , Lincheng Li , Yingfeng Chen , Gimhee Lee , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

We present MatDecompSDF, a novel framework for recovering high-fidelity 3D shapes and decomposing their physically-based material properties from multi-view images. The core challenge of inverse rendering lies in the ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chengyu Wang , Isabella Bennett , Henry Scott , Liang Zhang , Mei Chen , Hao Li , Rui Zhao

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has recently emerged as a powerful representation to synthesize photorealistic novel views. While showing impressive performance, it relies on the availability of dense input views with highly accurate camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Prune Truong , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari