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This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

We present Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF), an object-aware neural scene representation that decomposes a scene into a set of objects (things) and background (stuff). Each object is represented by an oriented 3D bounding box and a multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhijit Kundu , Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , Caroline Pantofaru , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Frank Dellaert , Thomas Funkhouser

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

Optical imaging through complex media, such as biological tissues or fog, is challenging due to light scattering. In the multiple scattering regime, wavefront shaping provides an effective method to retrieve information; it relies on…

Learning surfaces from neural radiance field (NeRF) became a rising topic in Multi-View Stereo (MVS). Recent Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods demonstrated their ability to reconstruct accurate 3D shapes of Lambertian scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 LI Yang , WU Ruizheng , LI Jiyong , CHEN Ying-cong

We present BIFROST, a first-principles model of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. Unlike conventional models, BIFROST employs physically motivated representations of the PMD properties of fibers, allowing users to…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Patrick R. Banner , Steven L. Rolston , Joseph W. Britton

We propose an end-to-end inverse rendering pipeline called SupeRVol that allows us to recover 3D shape and material parameters from a set of color images in a super-resolution manner. To this end, we represent both the bidirectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mohammed Brahimi , Bjoern Haefner , Tarun Yenamandra , Bastian Goldluecke , Daniel Cremers

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF)-based segmentation methods focus on object semantics and rely solely on RGB data, lacking intrinsic material properties. This limitation restricts accurate material perception, which is crucial for robotics,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Fabian Perez , Sara Rojas , Carlos Hinojosa , Hoover Rueda-Chacón , Bernard Ghanem

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a popular method in representing 3D scenes by optimising a continuous volumetric scene function. Its large success which lies in applying volumetric rendering (VR) is also its Achilles' heel in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhe Jun Tang , Tat-Jen Cham , Haiyu Zhao

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are an extremely promising method to reduce deep neural networks' complexity and power consumption massively. Binarization techniques, however, suffer from ineligible performance degradation compared to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tal Rozen , Moshe Kimhi , Brian Chmiel , Avi Mendelson , Chaim Baskin

OpenPBR is a physically based, standardized uber-shader developed for interoperable material authoring and rendering across VFX, animation, and design visualization workflows. This document serves as a companion to the official…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jamie Portsmouth , Peter Kutz , Stephen Hill

The physics solvers employed for neural network training are primarily iterative, and hence, differentiating through them introduces a severe computational burden as iterations grow large. Inspired by works in bilevel optimization, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Kanishk Bhatia , Felix Koehler , Nils Thuerey

This paper proposes a simple method which solves an open problem of multi-view 3D-Reconstruction for objects with unknown and generic surface materials, imaged by a freely moving camera and a freely moving point light source. The object can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ziang Cheng , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley , Yinqiang Zheng , Imari Sato

This paper introduces an adaptive physics-guided neural network (APGNN) framework for predicting quality attributes from image data by integrating physical laws into deep learning models. The APGNN adaptively balances data-driven and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-18 David Shulman , Itai Dattner

Capturing the shape and spatially-varying appearance (SVBRDF) of an object from images is a challenging task that has applications in both computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based approaches often need a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Kihwan Kim , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Jan Kautz

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have revolutionized the field of novel view synthesis, demonstrating remarkable performance. However, the modeling and rendering of reflective objects remain challenging problems. Recent methods have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Shubham Shrivastava , Sushruth Nagesh , Punarjay Chakravarty , Tinne Tuytelaars

We present a near real-time method for 6-DoF tracking of an unknown object from a monocular RGBD video sequence, while simultaneously performing neural 3D reconstruction of the object. Our method works for arbitrary rigid objects, even when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Bowen Wen , Jonathan Tremblay , Valts Blukis , Stephen Tyree , Thomas Muller , Alex Evans , Dieter Fox , Jan Kautz , Stan Birchfield

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

Panoramic imaging research on geometry recovery and High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction becomes a trend with the development of Extended Reality (XR). Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) provide a promising scene representation for both tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhan Lu , Qian Zheng , Boxin Shi , Xudong Jiang

Modeling of high-frequency outgoing radiance distributions has long been a key challenge in rendering, particularly for glossy material. Such distributions concentrate radiative energy within a narrow lobe and are highly sensitive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jierui Ren , Haojie Jin , Bo Pang , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li