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Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

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Light field microscopy (LFM) has been widely utilized in various fields for its capability to efficiently capture high-resolution 3D scenes. Despite the rapid advancements in neural representations, there are few methods specifically…

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Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

The goal of this work is to perform 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis from data captured by scanning platforms commonly deployed for world mapping in urban outdoor environments (e.g., Street View). Given a sequence of posed RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Konstantinos Rematas , Andrew Liu , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Thomas Funkhouser , Vittorio Ferrari

Neural radiance field is an emerging rendering method that generates high-quality multi-view consistent images from a neural scene representation and volume rendering. Although neural radiance field-based techniques are robust for scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ka Chun Shum , Jaeyeon Kim , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Learning radiance fields has shown remarkable results for novel view synthesis. The learning procedure usually costs lots of time, which motivates the latest methods to speed up the learning procedure by learning without neural networks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Wenyuan Zhang , Ruofan Xing , Yunfan Zeng , Yu-Shen Liu , Kanle Shi , Zhizhong Han

Neural implicit representation of visual scenes has attracted a lot of attention in recent research of computer vision and graphics. Most prior methods focus on how to reconstruct 3D scene representation from a set of images. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Wenpu Li , Pian Wan , Peng Wang , Jinghang Li , Yi Zhou , Peidong Liu

We present a super-fast convergence approach to reconstructing the per-scene radiance field from a set of images that capture the scene with known poses. This task, which is often applied to novel view synthesis, is recently revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Cheng Sun , Min Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated superior novel view synthesis performance but are slow at rendering. To speed up the volume rendering process, many acceleration methods have been proposed at the cost of large memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sicheng Li , Hao Li , Yue Wang , Yiyi Liao , Lu Yu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently revolutionized radiance field reconstruction, achieving high quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering speed without baking. However, 3DGS fails to accurately represent surfaces due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Binbin Huang , Zehao Yu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Shenghua Gao

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Yanzhen Chen , Xinyu Gao , Yazhen Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Xiaogang Jin

We present Neural Microfacet Fields, a method for recovering materials, geometry, and environment illumination from images of a scene. Our method uses a microfacet reflectance model within a volumetric setting by treating each sample along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Alexander Mai , Dor Verbin , Falko Kuester , Sara Fridovich-Keil

A surface light field represents the radiance of rays originating from any points on the surface in any directions. Traditional approaches require ultra-dense sampling to ensure the rendering quality. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Anpei Chen , Minye Wu , Yingliang Zhang , Nianyi Li , Jie Lu , Shenghua Gao , Jingyi Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

Recently, significant progress has been made in the study of methods for 3D reconstruction from multiple images using implicit neural representations, exemplified by the neural radiance field (NeRF) method. Such methods, which are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wooseok Kim , Taiki Fukiage , Takeshi Oishi

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi