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Novel-view synthesis techniques achieve impressive results for static scenes but struggle when faced with the inconsistencies inherent to casual capture settings: varying illumination, scene motion, and other unintended effects that are…

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables high-fidelity reconstruction of scene geometry and appearance. Building on this capability, inserting external mesh objects into reconstructed 3DGS scenes enables interactive editing and content…

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We present SGS-Intrinsic, an indoor inverse rendering framework that works well for sparse-view images. Unlike existing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based methods that focus on object-centric reconstruction and fail to work under sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jiahao Niu , Rongjia Zheng , Wenju Xu , Wei-Shi Zheng , Qing Zhang

We present the first end to end approach for real time material estimation for general object shapes with uniform material that only requires a single color image as input. In addition to Lambertian surface properties, our approach fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Abhimitra Meka , Maxim Maximov , Michael Zollhoefer , Avishek Chatterjee , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

This paper presents an illumination estimation method for virtual objects in real environment by learning. While previous works tackled this problem by reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) environment maps or the corresponding spherical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Di Xu , Zhen Li , Yanning Zhang , Qi Cao

Interactive global illumination remains a challenge in radiometrically- and geometrically-complex scenes. Specialized sampling strategies are effective for specular and near-specular transport because the scattering has relatively low…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zander Majercik , Thomas Müller , Alexander Keller , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Morgan McGuire

Volume rendering always plays an important role in the field of medical imaging and industrial design. In recent years, the realistic and interactive volume rendering of the global illumination can improve the perception of shape and depth…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Dening Luo

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

3D Gaussian Splatting is emerging as a state-of-the-art technique in novel view synthesis, recognized for its impressive balance between visual quality, speed, and rendering efficiency. However, reliance on third-degree spherical harmonics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yiwen Wang , Siyuan Chen , Ran Yi

Rendering diffuse global illumination in real-time is often approximated by pre-computing and storing irradiance in a 3D grid of probes. As long as most of the scene remains static, probes approximate irradiance for all surfaces immersed in…

In this paper, we propose the first framework that leverages physically-based inverse rendering for novel lighting generation on existing real-world human demonstrations of robotic manipulation tasks. Specifically, inverse rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shutong Jin , Lezhong Wang , Ben Temming , Florian T. Pokorny

In 3D reconstruction, the problem of inverse rendering, namely recovering the illumination of the scene and the material properties, is fundamental. Existing Gaussian Splatting-based methods primarily target static scenes and often assume…

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Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

Spike cameras, as innovative neuromorphic devices, generate continuous spike streams to capture high-speed scenes with lower bandwidth and higher dynamic range than traditional RGB cameras. However, reconstructing high-quality images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kang Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

We present a method to accelerate global illumination computation in dynamic environments by taking advantage of limitations of the human visual system. A model of visual attention is used to locate regions of interest in a scene and to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yang Li Hector Yee

This work tackles the challenging task of achieving real-time novel view synthesis for reflective surfaces across various scenes. Existing real-time rendering methods, especially those based on meshes, often have subpar performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chaojie Ji , Yufeng Li , Yiyi Liao

In this paper the use of Random Sprays Retinex (RSR) algorithm for global illumination estimation is proposed and its feasibility tested. Like other algorithms based on the Retinex model, RSR also provides local illumination estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Nikola Banić , Sven Lončarić

World model based planning has significantly improved decision-making in complex environments by enabling agents to simulate future states and make informed choices. This computational burden is particularly restrictive in robotics, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junha Chun , Youngjoon Jeong , Taesup Kim

With the rise of Extended Reality (XR) technology, there is a growing need for real-time light field reconstruction from sparse view inputs. Existing methods can be classified into offline techniques, which can generate high-quality novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yijie Deng , Lei Han , Tianpeng Lin , Lin Li , Jinzhi Zhang , Lu Fang

We present Bidirectional Gaussian Primitives, an image-based novel view synthesis technique designed to represent and render 3D objects with surface and volumetric materials under dynamic illumination. Our approach integrates light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyuan Liu , Yu Guo , Xinyuan Li , Bernd Bickel , Ran Zhang