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Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations have demonstrated remarkable performance in novel view synthesis; further, material-lighting disentanglement on 3DGS warrants relighting capabilities and its adaptability to broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kai Ye , Chong Gao , Guanbin Li , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen

Integrating inverse rendering with multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) yields more accurate 3D reconstructions than the inverse rendering approaches that rely on fixed environment illumination. However, efficient inverse rendering with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yixiao Chen , Bin Liang , Hanzhi Guo , Yongqing Cheng , Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng

We present a technique for estimating the shape and reflectance of an object in terms of its surface normals and spatially-varying BRDF. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under fixed view-point and varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Fast, reliable shape reconstruction is an essential ingredient in many computer vision applications. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that photorealistic novel view synthesis is within reach, but was gated by performance requirements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leonid Keselman , Martial Hebert

3D modeling of highly reflective objects remains challenging due to strong view-dependent appearances. While previous SDF-based methods can recover high-quality meshes, they are often time-consuming and tend to produce over-smoothed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jinguang Tong , Xuesong li , Fahira Afzal Maken , Sundaram Muthu , Lars Petersson , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li

We propose two novel ideas (adoption of deferred rendering and mesh-based representation) to improve the quality of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) based inverse rendering. We first report a problem incurred by hidden Gaussians, where…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Euntae Choi , Sungjoo Yoo

Differentiable rendering with 3D Gaussian primitives has emerged as a powerful method for reconstructing high-fidelity 3D scenes from multi-view images. While it offers improvements over NeRF-based methods, this representation still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kaifeng Sheng , Zheng Zhou , Yingliang Peng , Qianwei Wang

Novel view synthesis has experienced significant advancements owing to increasingly capable NeRF- and 3DGS-based methods. However, reflective object reconstruction remains challenging, lacking a proper solution to achieve real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuxuan Yao , Zixuan Zeng , Chun Gu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

The reconstruction of 3D objects from calibrated photographs represents a fundamental yet intricate challenge in the domains of computer graphics and vision. Although neural reconstruction approaches based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Chen Du , Truong Nguyen

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

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of objects that exhibit spatially-varying reflectance. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under a fixed view-point and varying illumination, i.e., the setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C Sankaranarayanan

Differentiable volumetric rendering-based methods made significant progress in novel view synthesis. On one hand, innovative methods have replaced the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) network with locally parameterized structures, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hugo Blanc , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Alexis Paljic

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

Implicit neural representation has paved the way for new approaches to dynamic scene reconstruction and rendering. Nonetheless, cutting-edge dynamic neural rendering methods rely heavily on these implicit representations, which frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Xinyu Gao , Wen Zhou , Shaohui Jiao , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaogang Jin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Geng Lin , Matthias Zwicker

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting-based inverse rendering extend Gaussian primitives with shading parameters and physically grounded light transport, enabling high-quality material recovery from dense multi-view captures. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Patrick Noras , Jun Myeong Choi , Didier Stricker , Pieter Peers , Roni Sengupta

Recovering the intrinsic physical attributes of a scene from images, generally termed as the inverse rendering problem, has been a central and challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. In this paper, we present GUS-IR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zhihao Liang , Hongdong Li , Kui Jia , Kailing Guo , Qi Zhang

In volume visualization, users can interactively explore the three-dimensional data by specifying color and opacity mappings in the transfer function (TF) or adjusting lighting parameters, facilitating meaningful interpretation of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Kaiyuan Tang , Siyuan Yao , Chaoli Wang

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara