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The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is an essential tool to capture the complex interaction of light and matter. Recently, several works have employed neural methods for BRDF modeling, following various strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Florian Hofherr , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers

Controlled capture of real-world material appearance yields tabulated sets of highly realistic reflectance data. In practice, however, its high memory footprint requires compressing into a representation that can be used efficiently in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alejandro Sztrajman , Gilles Rainer , Tobias Ritschel , Tim Weyrich

Bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) are pervasively used in computer graphics to produce realistic physically-based appearance. In recent years, several works explored using neural networks to represent BRDFs, taking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiahui Fan , Beibei Wang , Miloš Hašan , Jian Yang , Ling-Qi Yan

Traditional physically-based material models rely on analytically derived bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs), typically by considering statistics of micro-primitives such as facets, flakes, or spheres, sometimes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zixuan Li , Zixiong Wang , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

Accurately evaluating the quality of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models is essential for photo-realistic rendering. Traditional BRDF-space metrics often employ numerical error measures that fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Behnaz Kavoosighafi , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Saghi Hajisharif , Ehsan Miandji , Jonas Unger

Efficient and accurate measurement of the bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) plays a key role in high quality image rendering and physically accurate sensor simulation. However, obtaining the reflectance properties of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wen Cao

We propose a set of techniques to efficiently importance sample the derivatives of several BRDF models. In differentiable rendering, BRDFs are replaced by their differential BRDF counterparts which are real-valued and can have negative…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yash Belhe , Bing Xu , Sai Praveen Bangaru , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li

Accurate material modeling is crucial for achieving photorealistic rendering, bridging the gap between computer-generated imagery and real-world photographs. While traditional approaches rely on tabulated BRDF data, recent work has shifted…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Chenliang Zhou , Zheyuan Hu , Cengiz Oztireli

We introduce the physically based neural bidirectional reflectance distribution function (PBNBRDF), a novel, continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately reconstructs real-world materials…

We introduce a novel neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhe Chen , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

We propose a novel compact and efficient neural BRDF offering highly versatile material representation, yet with very-light memory and neural computation consumption towards achieving real-time rendering. The results in Figure 1, rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yishun Dou , Zhong Zheng , Qiaoqiao Jin , Bingbing Ni , Yugang Chen , Junxiang Ke

Characterizing the appearance of real-world surfaces is a fundamental problem in multidimensional reflectometry, computer vision and computer graphics. For many applications, appearance is sufficiently well characterized by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Mikhail A. Langovoy

BRDF models are ubiquitous tools for the representation of material appearance. However, there is now an astonishingly large number of different models in practical use. Both a lack of BRDF model standardisation across implementations found…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alejandro Sztrajman , Jaroslav Krivanek , Alexander Wilkie , Tim Weyrich

Parametric Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions (BSDFs) are pervasively used because of their flexibility to represent a large variety of material appearances by simply tuning the parameters. While efficient evaluation of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yaoyi Bai , Songyin Wu , Zheng Zeng , Beibei Wang , Ling-Qi Yan

Artistic authoring of 3D environments is a laborious enterprise that also requires skilled content creators. There have been impressive improvements in using machine learning to address different aspects of generating 3D content, such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Sean Memery , Osmar Cedron , Kartic Subr

Accurate BRDF acquisition is essential for realistic rendering, but dense gonioreflectometer measurements are slow and expensive. We study how to select a small set of BRDF measurements that is most informative for reconstructing material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 W. Cao , D. Jönsson , Z. Huang , J. Unger

Acquiring bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) is essential for simulating light transport and analytically modeling material properties. Over the past two decades, numerous intensity-only BRDF datasets in the visible…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yunseong Moon , Ryota Maeda , Suhyun Shin , Inseung Hwang , Youngchan Kim , Min H. Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek

Creating plausible surfaces is an essential component in achieving a high degree of realism in rendering. To relieve artists, who create these surfaces in a time-consuming, manual process, automated retrieval of the spatially-varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Mark Boss , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

We propose to tackle the multiview photometric stereo problem using an extension of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), conditioned on light source direction. The geometric part of our neural representation predicts surface normal direction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meghna Asthana , William A. P. Smith , Patrik Huber

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
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