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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…

We are witnessing an explosion of neural implicit representations in computer vision and graphics. Their applicability has recently expanded beyond tasks such as shape generation and image-based rendering to the fundamental problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiaming Sun , Xi Chen , Qianqian Wang , Zhengqi Li , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Xiaowei Zhou , Noah Snavely

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

A concept of light-fields computed from multiple view images on regular grids has proven its benefit for scene representations, and supported realistic renderings of novel views and photographic effects such as refocusing and shallow depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hyunjun Jung , Hae-Gon Jeon

We tackle the ill-posed inverse rendering problem in 3D reconstruction with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approach informed by Physics-Based Rendering (PBR) theory, named PBR-NeRF. Our method addresses a key limitation in most NeRF and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sean Wu , Shamik Basu , Tim Broedermann , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

We propose a deep inverse rendering framework for indoor scenes. From a single RGB image of an arbitrary indoor scene, we create a complete scene reconstruction, estimating shape, spatially-varying lighting, and spatially-varying,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Zhengqin Li , Mohammad Shafiei , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Manmohan Chandraker

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

Neural rendering provides a fundamentally new way to render photorealistic images. Similar to traditional light-baking methods, neural rendering utilizes neural networks to bake representations of scenes, materials, and lights into latent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ziyang Zhang , Edgar Simo-Serra

Direct illumination with many lights is an inherent component of physically-based rendering, remaining challenging, especially in real-time scenarios. We propose an online-trained neural cache that stores visibility between lights and 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jakub Bokšanský , Daniel Meister

In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chun Gu , Xiaofei Wei , Zixuan Zeng , Yuxuan Yao , Li Zhang

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Synthesizing photo-realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are generated using rendering algorithms such as rasterization or…

We present a method, Neural Radiance Flow (NeRFlow),to learn a 4D spatial-temporal representation of a dynamic scene from a set of RGB images. Key to our approach is the use of a neural implicit representation that learns to capture the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yilun Du , Yinan Zhang , Hong-Xing Yu , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

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

Representing visual signals with implicit coordinate-based neural networks, as an effective replacement of the traditional discrete signal representation, has gained considerable popularity in computer vision and graphics. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Xin Huang , Qi Zhang , Ying Feng , Hongdong Li , Qing Wang

We present a novel Relightable Neural Renderer (RNR) for simultaneous view synthesis and relighting using multi-view image inputs. Existing neural rendering (NR) does not explicitly model the physical rendering process and hence has limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhang Chen , Anpei Chen , Guli Zhang , Chengyuan Wang , Yu Ji , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , Jingyi Yu

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Haoqian Wu , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Yongqiang Zhang , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

We explore total scene capture -- recording, modeling, and rerendering a scene under varying appearance such as season and time of day. Starting from internet photos of a tourist landmark, we apply traditional 3D reconstruction to register…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Moustafa Meshry , Dan B Goldman , Sameh Khamis , Hugues Hoppe , Rohit Pandey , Noah Snavely , Ricardo Martin-Brualla

In this paper, we present GaNI, a Global and Near-field Illumination-aware neural inverse rendering technique that can reconstruct geometry, albedo, and roughness parameters from images of a scene captured with co-located light and camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaye Wu , Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Matthias Zwicker , David Jacobs , Roni Sengupta