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Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Yanzhen Chen , Xinyu Gao , Yazhen Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Xiaogang Jin

Representing and rendering dynamic scenes from 2D images is a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. This survey provides a comprehensive review of the evolution and advancements in dynamic scene representation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jiaxuan Zhu , Hao Tang

Given a set of images of a scene, the re-rendering of this scene from novel views and lighting conditions is an important and challenging problem in Computer Vision and Graphics. On the one hand, most existing works in Computer Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkuehler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Inverse rendering of indoor scenes remains challenging due to the ambiguity between reflectance and lighting, exacerbated by inter-reflections among multiple objects. While natural illumination-based methods struggle to resolve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiaye Wu , Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Peihan Tu , Matthias Zwicker , David Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

Rendering realistic images with global illumination is a computationally demanding task and often requires dedicated hardware for feasible runtime. Recent research uses Deep Neural Networks to predict indirect lighting on image level, but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Giulio Jiang , Bernhard Kainz

We propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, a SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. Because multi-view images provide a variety of information about the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

We introduce inverse transport networks as a learning architecture for inverse rendering problems where, given input image measurements, we seek to infer physical scene parameters such as shape, material, and illumination. During training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Chengqian Che , Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Neural rendering is a new image and video generation method based on deep learning. It combines the deep learning model with the physical knowledge of computer graphics, to obtain a controllable and realistic scene model, and realize the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Xinkai Yan , Jieting Xu , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nan Luo , Chenglin Ye , Jiaxu Li , Gang Liu , Bo Wan , Di Wang , Lupeng Liu , Jun Xiao

Beyond novel view synthesis, Neural Radiance Fields are useful for applications that interact with the real world. In this paper, we use them as an implicit map of a given scene and propose a camera relocalization algorithm tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Arthur Moreau , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Arnaud de La Fortelle

Single-image relighting is a challenging task that involves reasoning about the complex interplay between geometry, materials, and lighting. Many prior methods either support only specific categories of images, such as portraits, or require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haian Jin , Yuan Li , Fujun Luan , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sai Bi , Kai Zhang , Zexiang Xu , Jin Sun , Noah Snavely

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

Modern computer vision algorithms have brought significant advancement to 3D geometry reconstruction. However, illumination and material reconstruction remain less studied, with current approaches assuming very simplified models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dejan Azinović , Tzu-Mao Li , Anton Kaplanyan , Matthias Nießner

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Relighting, which synthesizes a novel view under a given lighting condition (unseen in training time), is a must feature for immersive photo-realistic experience. However, real-time relighting is challenging due to high computation cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Euntae Choi , Vincent Carpentier , Seunghun Shin , Sungjoo Yoo

Scattering often limits the controlled delivery of light in applications such as biomedical imaging, optogenetics, optical trapping, and fiber-optic communication or imaging. Such scattering can be controlled by appropriately shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alex Turpin , Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

The emergence of neural and Gaussian-based radiance field methods has led to considerable advancements in novel view synthesis and 3D object reconstruction. Nonetheless, specular reflection and refraction continue to pose significant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Letian Huang , Dongwei Ye , Jialin Dan , Chengzhi Tao , Huiwen Liu , Kun Zhou , Bo Ren , Yuanqi Li , Yanwen Guo , Jie Guo

We propose a simple yet effective neural network-based framework for global illumination rendering. Recently, rendering techniques that learn neural radiance caches by minimizing the difference (i.e., residual) between the left and right…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 In-Young Cho , Jaewoong Cho

We introduce Differentiable Neural Radiosity, a novel method of representing the solution of the differential rendering equation using a neural network. Inspired by neural radiosity techniques, we minimize the norm of the residual of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Saeed Hadadan , Matthias Zwicker