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We propose a novel 3D spatial representation for data fusion and scene reconstruction. Probabilistic Signed Distance Function (Probabilistic SDF, PSDF) is proposed to depict uncertainties in the 3D space. It is modeled by a joint…

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Image deraining is crucial for vision applications but is challenged by the complex multi-scale physics of rain and its coupling with scenes. To address this challenge, a novel approach inspired by multi-stage image restoration is proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayu Wang , Haoyu Bian , Haoran Sun , Shaoning Zeng

Modeling the wireless radiance field (WRF) is fundamental to modern communication systems, enabling key tasks such as localization, sensing, and channel estimation. Traditional approaches, which rely on empirical formulas or physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mufan Liu , Cixiao Zhang , Qi Yang , Yujie Cao , Yiling Xu , Yin Xu , Shu Sun , Mingzeng Dai , Yunfeng Guan

In this paper, we present a method based on Radial Basis Function (RBF)-generated Finite Differences (FD) for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations (PDEs) on closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

In this paper, we first propose a novel method for transferring material transformations across different scenes. Building on disentangled Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) representations, our approach learns to map Bidirectional Reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ivan Lopes , Jean-François Lalonde , Raoul de Charette

The density functional theory (DFT) is used in a study of point defects on both UN (001) surface and sub-surface layers. We compare results for slabs of different thicknesses (both perfect and containing nitrogen or uranium vacancies) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 Dmitry Bocharov , Denis Gryaznov , Yuri F. Zhukovskii , Eugene A. Kotomin

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a popular view synthesis technique that represents a scene as a continuous volumetric function, parameterized by multilayer perceptrons that provide the volume density and view-dependent emitted radiance at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Dor Verbin , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Todd Zickler , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan

We present a differentiation framework for plane-wave density-functional theory (DFT) that combines the strengths of forward-mode algorithmic differentiation (AD) and density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). In the resulting AD-DFPT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Niklas Frederik Schmitz , Bruno Ploumhans , Michael F. Herbst

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

The imaging sharpness of an X-ray telescope is chiefly determined by the optical quality of its focusing optics, which in turn mostly depends on the shape accuracy and the surface finishing of the grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Lorenzo Raimondi , Daniele Spiga

Scattering phase functions (SPFs) derived from resolved scattered-light images of debris discs are widely used to infer dust grain properties, often via parametric forms such as the Henyey-Greenstein (HG) phase function. However, it remains…

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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

The surface of metal, glass and plastic objects is often characterized by microscopic scratches caused by manufacturing and/or wear. A closer look onto such scratches reveals iridescent colors with a complex dependency on viewing and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Sebastian Werner , Zdravko Velinov , Wenzel Jakob , Matthias B. Hullin

We tackle the problem of modeling light scattering in homogeneous translucent material and estimating its scattering parameters. A scattering phase function is one of such parameters which affects the distribution of scattered radiation. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Thanh-Trung Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

How can one analyze detailed 3D biological objects, such as neurons and botanical trees, that exhibit complex geometrical and topological variation? In this paper, we develop a novel mathematical framework for representing, comparing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Guan Wang , Hamid Laga , Anuj Srivastava

Optical imaging quality can be severely degraded by system and sample induced aberrations. Existing adaptive optics systems typically rely on iterative search algorithm to correct for aberrations and improve images. This study demonstrates…