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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

Reconstructing visual stimuli from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI enables fine-grained retrieval of brain activity. However, the accurate reconstruction of diverse details, including structure, background, texture, color, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haoyu Li , Hao Wu , Badong Chen

We present DualMat, a novel dual-path diffusion framework for estimating Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials from single images under complex lighting conditions. Our approach operates in two distinct latent spaces: an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yifeng Huang , Zhang Chen , Yi Xu , Minh Hoai , Zhong Li

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Structural coloration is commonly modeled using wave optics for reliable and photorealistic rendering of natural, quasi-periodic and complex nanostructures. Such models often rely on dense, preliminary or preprocessed data to accurately…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Narayan Kandel , Daljit Singh J. S. Dhillon

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge sources, enabling more accurate and contextually relevant responses tailored to user needs. However, existing RAG systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zirui Guo , Lianghao Xia , Yanhua Yu , Tu Ao , Chao Huang

We address the problem of learning person-specific facial priors from a small number (e.g., 20) of portrait photos of the same person. This enables us to edit this specific person's facial appearance, such as expression and lighting, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Lars Jebe , Zhuowen Tu , Xiuming Zhang

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

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a learning-based approach to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions, particularly in scan-specific settings when only data from the under-sampled scan itself are available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Zach Stoebner , Jonathan Tamir

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance and illumination is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. Neural approaches such as NeRF have achieved remarkable success in view synthesis, but do not explicitly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Raphael Braun , Ce Liu , Jonathan T. Barron , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Reconstructing 3D indoor scenes from 2D images is an important task in many computer vision and graphics applications. A main challenge in this task is that large texture-less areas in typical indoor scenes make existing methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiepeng Wang , Peng Wang , Xiaoxiao Long , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Lingjie Liu , Wenping Wang

We present a novel method to acquire object representations from online image collections, capturing high-quality geometry and material properties of arbitrary objects from photographs with varying cameras, illumination, and backgrounds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhengfei Kuang , Kyle Olszewski , Menglei Chai , Zeng Huang , Panos Achlioptas , Sergey Tulyakov

We present a novel approach for digitizing real-world objects by estimating their geometry, material properties, and environmental lighting from a set of posed images with fixed lighting. Our method incorporates into Neural Radiance Field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jesus Zarzar , Bernard Ghanem

We present SOLID-Net, a neural network for spatially-varying outdoor lighting estimation from a single outdoor image for any 2D pixel location. Previous work has used a unified sky environment map to represent outdoor lighting. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yongjie Zhu , Yinda Zhang , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated prominent performance in novel view synthesis. However, their input heavily relies on image acquisition under normal light conditions, making it challenging to learn accurate scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Min Wang , Xin Huang , Guoqing Zhou , Qifeng Guo , Qing Wang

X-ray ptychography provides exceptional nanoscale resolution and is widely applied in materials science, biology, and nanotechnology. However, its full potential is constrained by the critical challenge of accurately reconstructing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Tingyou Li , Zixin Xu , Zirui Gao , Hanfei Yan , Xiaojing Huang , Jizhou Li

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li