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We introduce InverseFaceNet, a deep convolutional inverse rendering framework for faces that jointly estimates facial pose, shape, expression, reflectance and illumination from a single input image. By estimating all parameters from just a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hyeongwoo Kim , Michael Zollhöfer , Ayush Tewari , Justus Thies , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

In view synthesis, a neural radiance field approximates underlying density and radiance fields based on a sparse set of scene pictures. To generate a pixel of a novel view, it marches a ray through the pixel and computes a weighted sum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Nikita Morozov , Denis Rakitin , Oleg Desheulin , Dmitry Vetrov , Kirill Struminsky

Modeling reflections from 2D images is essential for photorealistic rendering and novel view synthesis. Recent approaches enhance Gaussian primitives with reflection-related material attributes to enable physically based rendering (PBR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Jimin Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Reconstructing the shape and appearance of real-world objects using measured 2D images has been a long-standing problem in computer vision. In this paper, we introduce a new analysis-by-synthesis technique capable of producing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Zhao Dong

We present UrbanIR (Urban Scene Inverse Rendering), a new inverse graphics model that enables realistic, free-viewpoint renderings of scenes under various lighting conditions with a single video. It accurately infers shape, albedo,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chih-Hao Lin , Bohan Liu , Yi-Ting Chen , Kuan-Sheng Chen , David Forsyth , Jia-Bin Huang , Anand Bhattad , Shenlong Wang

Inverse path tracing has recently been applied to joint material and lighting estimation, given geometry and multi-view HDR observations of an indoor scene. However, it has two major limitations: path tracing is expensive to compute, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Liwen Wu , Rui Zhu , Mustafa B. Yaldiz , Yinhao Zhu , Hong Cai , Janarbek Matai , Fatih Porikli , Tzu-Mao Li , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

When dealing with difficult inverse problems such as inverse rendering, using Monte Carlo estimated gradients to optimise parameters can slow down convergence due to variance. Averaging many gradient samples in each iteration reduces this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Martin Balint , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gurprit Singh

We propose SIR, an efficient method to decompose differentiable shadows for inverse rendering on indoor scenes using multi-view data, addressing the challenges in accurately decomposing the materials and lighting conditions. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaokang Wei , Zhuoman Liu , Ping Li , Yan Luximon

Decomposing an object's appearance into representations of its materials and the surrounding illumination is difficult, even when the object's 3D shape is known beforehand. This problem is especially challenging for diffuse objects: it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Dor Verbin , Ben Mildenhall , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Todd Zickler , Pratul P. Srinivasan

This paper aims to recover object materials from posed images captured under an unknown static lighting condition. Recent methods solve this task by optimizing material parameters through differentiable physically based rendering. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xi Chen , Sida Peng , Dongchen Yang , Yuan Liu , Bowen Pan , Chengfei Lv , Xiaowei Zhou

We present a topology-informed inverse rendering approach for reconstructing high-genus surface meshes from multi-view images. Compared to 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, mesh-based representations are preferred as they…

Neural Radiance Fields achieve high-fidelity scene representation but suffer from costly training and rendering, while 3D Gaussian splatting offers real-time performance with strong empirical results. Recently, solutions that harness the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Grzegorz Wilczyński , Mikołaj Zieliński , Krzysztof Byrski , Joanna Waczyńska , Dominik Belter , Przemysław Spurek

Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nandhana Sunil , Abhirami R Iyer , Avirup Mandal

We propose progressive radiance distillation, an inverse rendering method that combines physically-based rendering with Gaussian-based radiance field rendering using a distillation progress map. Taking multi-view images as input, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Keyang Ye , Qiming Hou , Kun Zhou

Monte Carlo rendering algorithms are widely used to produce photorealistic computer graphics images. However, these algorithms need to sample a substantial amount of rays per pixel to enable proper global illumination and thus require an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiqi Hou , Zhan Li , Carl S Marshall , Selvakumar Panneer , Feng Liu

In this paper, we present GaNI, a Global and Near-field Illumination-aware neural inverse rendering technique that can reconstruct geometry, albedo, and roughness parameters from images of a scene captured with co-located light and camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaye Wu , Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Matthias Zwicker , David Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

Physically-based renderings contain Monte-Carlo noise, with variance that increases as the number of rays per pixel decreases. This noise, while zero-mean for good modern renderers, can have heavy tails (most notably, for scenes containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Vaibhav Vavilala , Rahul Vasanth , David Forsyth

Conventional rendering techniques are primarily designed and optimized for single-frame rendering. In practical applications, such as scene editing and animation rendering, users frequently encounter scenes where only a small portion is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Bing Xu , Tzu-Mao Li , Iliyan Georgiev , Trevor Hedstrom , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We propose a novel explicit dense 3D reconstruction approach that processes a set of images of a scene with sensor poses and calibrations and estimates a photo-real digital model. One of the key innovations is that the underlying volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samir Aroudj , Steven Lovegrove , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Michael Goesele , Richard Newcombe

This paper presents a method, namely NeuS-PIR, for recovering relightable neural surfaces using pre-integrated rendering from multi-view images or video. Unlike methods based on NeRF and discrete meshes, our method utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shi Mao , Chenming Wu , Zhelun Shen , Yifan Wang , Dayan Wu , Liangjun Zhang