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Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Changpu Li , Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method called NeuralRoom for reconstructing room-sized indoor scenes directly from a set of 2D images. Recently, implicit neural representations have become a promising way to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yusen Wang , Zongcheng Li , Yu Jiang , Kaixuan Zhou , Tuo Cao , Yanping Fu , Chunxia Xiao

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) including diffuse optical tomography is an imaging modality which makes use of diffuse light propagation in random media. When optical properties of a random medium is investigated from boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Yu Jiang , Yoko Hoshi , Manabu Machida , Gen Nakamura

Neural surface reconstruction faces persistent challenges in reconciling geometric fidelity with photometric consistency under complex scene conditions. We present HiNeuS, a unified framework that holistically addresses three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

A radiance field is an effective representation of 3D scenes, which has been widely adopted in novel-view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. It is still an open and challenging problem to evaluate the geometry, i.e., the density field, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Qihang Fang , Yafei Song , Keqiang Li , Li Shen , Huaiyu Wu , Gang Xiong , Liefeng Bo

Virtual tour among sparse 360$^\circ$ images is widely used while hindering smooth and immersive roaming experiences. The emergence of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has showcased significant progress in synthesizing novel views, unlocking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Huajian Huang , Yingshu Chen , Tianjia Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

We show how to train a fully convolutional neural network to perform inverse rendering from a single, uncontrolled image. The network takes an RGB image as input, regresses albedo and normal maps from which we compute lighting coefficients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Ye Yu , William A. P. Smith

We present an efficient method for joint optimization of topology, materials and lighting from multi-view image observations. Unlike recent multi-view reconstruction approaches, which typically produce entangled 3D representations encoded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Wenzheng Chen , Alex Evans , Thomas Müller , Sanja Fidler

In this paper we examine the problem of inverse rendering of real face images. Existing methods decompose a face image into three components (albedo, normal, and illumination) by supervised training on synthetic face data. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Yuda Qiu , Zhangyang Xiong , Kai Han , Zhongyuan Wang , Zixiang Xiong , Xiaoguang Han

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

Rendering is the process of generating 2D images from 3D assets, simulated in a virtual environment, typically with a graphics pipeline. By inverting such renderer, one can think of a learning approach to predict a 3D shape from an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shichen Liu , Weikai Chen , Tianye Li , Hao Li

We present a method to edit complex indoor lighting from a single image with its predicted depth and light source segmentation masks. This is an extremely challenging problem that requires modeling complex light transport, and disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhengqin Li , Jia Shi , Sai Bi , Rui Zhu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Manmohan Chandraker

This paper proposes a new two-step procedure for sparse-view tomographic image reconstruction. It is called RISING, since it combines an early-stopped Rapid Iterative Solver with a subsequent Iteration Network-based Gaining step. So far,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Extensive research on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has primarily focused on optimizing reflective coefficients for passive beamforming in specific target directions. This optimization typically assumes prior knowledge of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Xiao Cai , Hei Victor Cheng , Daniel E. Lucani

Reconstructing objects from posed images is a crucial and complex task in computer graphics and computer vision. While NeRF-based neural reconstruction methods have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they tend to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shuichang Lai , Letian Huang , Jie Guo , Kai Cheng , Bowen Pan , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiangjing Lyu , Chengfei Lv , Yanwen Guo

We consider the challenging problem of predicting intrinsic object properties from a single image by exploiting differentiable renderers. Many previous learning-based approaches for inverse graphics adopt rasterization-based renderers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Wenzheng Chen , Joey Litalien , Jun Gao , Zian Wang , Clement Fuji Tsang , Sameh Khamis , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler

We present IntrinsicAvatar, a novel approach to recovering the intrinsic properties of clothed human avatars including geometry, albedo, material, and environment lighting from only monocular videos. Recent advancements in human-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shaofei Wang , Božidar Antić , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Reconstructing the shape and spatially varying surface appearances of a physical-world object as well as its surrounding illumination based on 2D images (e.g., photographs) of the object has been a long-standing problem in computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Cheng Sun , Guangyan Cai , Zhengqin Li , Kai Yan , Cheng Zhang , Carl Marshall , Jia-Bin Huang , Shuang Zhao , Zhao Dong

Simulating radiative transfer in the atmosphere with Monte Carlo ray tracing provides realistic surface irradiance in cloud-resolving models. However, Monte Carlo methods are computationally expensive because large sampling budgets are…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ment Reeze , Menno A. Veerman , Chiel C. van Heerwaarden

We present an inverse image-formation module that can enhance the robustness of existing visual SLAM pipelines for casually captured scenarios. Casual video captures often suffer from motion blur and varying appearances, which degrade the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gwangtak Bae , Changwoon Choi , Hyeongjun Heo , Sang Min Kim , Young Min Kim