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Capturing relightable 3D assets from real-world objects is a widely researched problem. Several per-scene optimization-based methods, based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), support relighting; however, they usually require dense input…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guangming Fu , Jiahui Fan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

Inverse rendering aims to decompose a scene into its geometry, material properties and light conditions under a certain rendering model. It has wide applications like view synthesis, relighting, and scene editing. In recent years, inverse…

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Differentiable rendering methods promise the ability to optimize various parameters of 3d scenes to achieve a desired result. However, lighting design has so far received little attention in this field. In this paper, we introduce a method…

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The light stage has been widely used in computer graphics for the past two decades, primarily to enable the relighting of human faces. By capturing the appearance of the human subject under different light sources, one obtains the light…

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The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Matteo Caligiuri , Adriano Simonetto , Pietro Zanuttigh

Inverse rendering is the problem of decomposing an image into its intrinsic components, i.e. albedo, normal and lighting. To solve this ill-posed problem from single image, state-of-the-art methods in shape from shading mostly resort to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mona Zehni , Shaona Ghosh , Krishna Sridhar , Sethu Raman

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan

Traditional computer graphics rendering pipeline is designed for procedurally generating 2D quality images from 3D shapes with high performance. The non-differentiability due to discrete operations such as visibility computation makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Chuan Li , Stephen Balaban , Yong-Liang Yang

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has exhibited significant success in novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, etc. However, since no physical reflection is considered in its rendering pipeline, NeRF mistakes the reflection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Junyi Zeng , Chong Bao , Rui Chen , Zilong Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

We present the first real-time method for inserting a rigid virtual object into a neural radiance field, which produces realistic lighting and shadowing effects, as well as allows interactive manipulation of the object. By exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Keyang Ye , Hongzhi Wu , Xin Tong , Kun Zhou

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are able to synthesize realistic novel views from multi-view images captured from distinct positions and perspectives. In NeRF's rendering pipeline, neural networks are used to represent a scene independently…

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Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D…

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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

A vital component of photo-realistic image synthesis is the simulation of indirect diffuse reflections, which still remain a quintessential hurdle that modern rendering engines struggle to overcome. Real-time applications typically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Benjamin Kahl

In this work, we propose a CNN-based approach to estimate the spectral reflectance of a surface and the spectral power distribution of the light from a single RGB image of a V-shaped surface. Interreflections happening in a concave surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Rada Deeb , Joost Van De Weijer , Damien Muselet , Mathieu Hebert , Alain Tremeau

Recent differentiable rendering techniques have become key tools to tackle many inverse problems in graphics and vision. Existing models, however, assume steady-state light transport, i.e., infinite speed of light. While this is a safe…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shinyoung Yi , Donggun Kim , Kiseok Choi , Adrian Jarabo , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

Inverse rendering seeks to recover 3D geometry, surface material, and lighting from captured images, enabling advanced applications such as novel-view synthesis, relighting, and virtual object insertion. However, most existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chih-Hao Lin , Jia-Bin Huang , Zhengqin Li , Zhao Dong , Christian Richardt , Tuotuo Li , Michael Zollhöfer , Johannes Kopf , Shenlong Wang , Changil Kim

Seeing-in-the-dark is one of the most important and challenging computer vision tasks due to its wide applications and extreme complexities of in-the-wild scenarios. Existing arts can be mainly divided into two threads: 1) RGB-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Muyao Niu , Zhuoxiao Li , Zhihang Zhong , Yinqiang Zheng

We introduce a novel neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

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