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We aim to improve the Inverted Neural Radiance Fields (iNeRF) algorithm which defines the image pose estimation problem as a NeRF based iterative linear optimization. NeRFs are novel neural space representation models that can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ágoston István Csehi , Csaba Máté Józsa

We propose a diffusion-based inverse rendering framework that decomposes a single RGB image into geometry, material, and lighting. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed, making it difficult to predict a single accurate solution. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 JunYong Choi , Min-Cheol Sagong , SeokYeong Lee , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

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

Current 3D GAN inversion methods for human heads typically use only one single frontal image to reconstruct the whole 3D head model. This leaves out meaningful information when multi-view data or dynamic videos are available. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Florian Barthel , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Decomposing geometry, materials and lighting from a set of images, namely inverse rendering, has been a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. Recent advances in neural rendering enable photo-realistic and plausible inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Silong Yong , Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan , Bernhard Kerbl , Zifu Wan , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

We propose a method to use artificial neural networks to approximate light scattering by multilayer nanoparticles. We find the network needs to be trained on only a small sampling of the data in order to approximate the simulation to high…

Neural volumetric representations have become a widely adopted model for radiance fields in 3D scenes. These representations are fully implicit or hybrid function approximators of the instantaneous volumetric radiance in a scene, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuval Bahat , Yuxuan Zhang , Hendrik Sommerhoff , Andreas Kolb , Felix Heide

Multi-view inverse rendering aims to recover geometry, materials, and illumination consistently across multiple viewpoints. When applied to multi-view images, existing single-view approaches often ignore cross-view relationships, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xiangzuo Wu , Chengwei Ren , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li , Yuan Liu

We present Large Inverse Rendering Model (LIRM), a transformer architecture that jointly reconstructs high-quality shape, materials, and radiance fields with view-dependent effects in less than a second. Our model builds upon the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhengqin Li , Dilin Wang , Ka Chen , Zhaoyang Lv , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Milim Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Lei Xiao , Cheng Zhang , Yufeng Zhu , Carl S. Marshall , Yufeng Ren , Richard Newcombe , Zhao Dong

Motivated by augmented and virtual reality applications such as telepresence, there has been a recent focus in real-time performance capture of humans under motion. However, given the real-time constraint, these systems often suffer from…

We present a self-supervised approach to in-the-wild image relighting that enables fully controllable, physically based illumination editing. We achieve this by combining the physical accuracy of traditional rendering with the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting-based inverse rendering extend Gaussian primitives with shading parameters and physically grounded light transport, enabling high-quality material recovery from dense multi-view captures. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Patrick Noras , Jun Myeong Choi , Didier Stricker , Pieter Peers , Roni Sengupta

Inverse rendering remains a core challenge in graphics and vision, especially in the snapshot configurations required for lightweight desktop workflows, where the per-frame information budget is highly constrained. Previous inverse…

Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Stephen Lombardi , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Gabriel Schwartz , Andreas Lehrmann , Yaser Sheikh

Photo realism in computer generated imagery is crucially dependent on how well an artist is able to recreate real-world materials in the scene. The workflow for material modeling and editing typically involves manual tweaking of material…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aakash KT , Parikshit Sakurikar , Saurabh Saini , P. J. Narayanan

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has exhibited significant success in novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, etc. However, since no physical reflection is considered in its rendering pipeline, NeRF mistakes the reflection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Junyi Zeng , Chong Bao , Rui Chen , Zilong Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Vision in adverse weather conditions, whether it be snow, rain, or fog is challenging. In these scenarios, scattering and attenuation severly degrades image quality. Handling such inclement weather conditions, however, is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Andrea Ramazzina , Mario Bijelic , Stefanie Walz , Alessandro Sanvito , Dominik Scheuble , Felix Heide

Reconstructing the geometry and appearance of objects from photographs taken in different environments is difficult as the illumination and therefore the object appearance vary across captured images. This is particularly challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hadi Alzayer , Philipp Henzler , Jonathan T. Barron , Jia-Bin Huang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

In this paper we present a technique that improves rendering performance for real-time scenes with ray traced lighting in the presence of dynamic lights and objects. In particular we verify photon paths from the previous frame against…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Pierre Moreau , Michael Doggett , Erik Sintorn