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While the problem of estimating shapes and diffuse reflectances of human faces from images has been extensively studied, there is relatively less work done on recovering the specular albedo. This paper presents a lightweight solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Guoxian Song , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham

Neural 3D scene representations have shown great potential for 3D reconstruction from 2D images. However, reconstructing real-world captures of complex scenes still remains a challenge. Existing generic 3D reconstruction methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fangjinhua Wang , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Niemeyer , Richard Szeliski , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari

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

We address the problem of reconstructing 3D surfaces from depth and surface normal maps acquired by a sensor system based on a single perspective camera. Depth and normal maps can be obtained through techniques such as structured-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ondrej Hlinka , Georg Kaniak , Christian Kapeller

Capturing the 3D geometry of transparent objects is a challenging task, ill-suited for general-purpose scanning and reconstruction techniques, since these cannot handle specular light transport phenomena. Existing state-of-the-art methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiahui Lyu , Bojian Wu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

In this work we address the challenging problem of multiview 3D surface reconstruction. We introduce a neural network architecture that simultaneously learns the unknown geometry, camera parameters, and a neural renderer that approximates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lior Yariv , Yoni Kasten , Dror Moran , Meirav Galun , Matan Atzmon , Ronen Basri , Yaron Lipman

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

Simultaneous reconstruction of geometry and reflectance properties in uncontrolled environments remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to reconstruct the scene's 3D geometry and reflectance from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Rui Li , Guangmin Zang , Miao Qi , Wolfgang Heidrich

Accurate 3D reconstruction of objects with reflective, transparent, or low-texture surfaces still remains notoriously challenging. Such materials often violate key assumptions in multi-view reconstruction pipelines, such as photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhicheng Liang , Haoyi Yu , Boyan Li , Dayou Zhang , Zijian Cao , Tianyi Gong , Junhua Liu , Shuguang Cui , Fangxin Wang

Digital elevation modeling of planetary surfaces is essential for studying past and ongoing geological processes. Wide-angle imagery acquired during spacecraft descent promises to offer a low-cost option for high-resolution terrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Melonie de Almeida , George Brydon , Divya M. Persaud , John H. Williamson , Paul Henderson

We present a framework, called MVG-NeRF, that combines classical Multi-View Geometry algorithms and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) for image-based 3D reconstruction. NeRF has revolutionized the field of implicit 3D representations, mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Marco Orsingher , Paolo Zani , Paolo Medici , Massimo Bertozzi

We present SuperNormal, a fast, high-fidelity approach to multi-view 3D reconstruction using surface normal maps. With a few minutes, SuperNormal produces detailed surfaces on par with 3D scanners. We harness volume rendering to optimize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

3D reconstruction from a single RGB image is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous methods are usually solely data-driven, which lead to inaccurate 3D shape recovery and limited generalization capability. In this work, we focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yichao Zhou , Shichen Liu , Yi Ma

In this paper, we present a new compositing approach to obtain stylized reflections and refractions with a simple control. Our approach does not require any mask or separate 3D rendering. Moreover, only one additional image is sufficient to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ergun Akleman , Youyou Wang , Ozgur Gonen

Robust GNSS positioning in urban environments is still plagued by multipath effects, particularly due to the complex signal propagation induced by ubiquitous surfaces with varied radio frequency reflectivities. Current 3D Mapping Aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Shiyao Lv , Xin Zhang , Xingqun Zhan

Neural surface reconstruction faces persistent challenges in reconciling geometric fidelity with photometric consistency under complex scene conditions. We present HiNeuS, a unified framework that holistically addresses three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves remarkable results in the field of surface reconstruction. However, when Gaussian normal vectors are aligned within the single-view projection plane, while the geometry appears reasonable in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Bo Jia , Yanan Guo , Ying Chang , Benkui Zhang , Ying Xie , Kangning Du , Lin Cao

Traditional multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) methods are often composed of multiple disjoint stages, resulting in noticeable accumulated errors. In this paper, we present a neural inverse rendering method for MVPS based on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Wenqi Yang , Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger

In this paper, we introduce a deep multi-view stereo (MVS) system that jointly predicts depths, surface normals and per-view confidence maps. The key to our approach is a novel solver that iteratively solves for per-view depth map and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wang Zhao , Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Hengkai Guo , Yong-Jin Liu