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We propose SparseFusion, a sparse view 3D reconstruction approach that unifies recent advances in neural rendering and probabilistic image generation. Existing approaches typically build on neural rendering with re-projected features but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhizhuo Zhou , Shubham Tulsiani

Color polarization demosaicking (CPDM) aims to reconstruct full-resolution polarization images of four directions from the color-polarization filter array (CPFA) raw image. Due to the challenge of predicting numerous missing pixels and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Chenggong Li , Yidong Luo , Junchao Zhang , Degui Yang

This paper tackles the problem of estimating 3D body shape of clothed humans from single polarized 2D images, i.e. polarization images. Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

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…

Directly generating scenes from satellite imagery offers exciting possibilities for integration into applications like games and map services. However, challenges arise from significant view changes and scene scale. Previous efforts mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zuoyue Li , Zhenqiang Li , Zhaopeng Cui , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Person image synthesis with controllable body poses and appearances is an essential task owing to the practical needs in the context of virtual try-on, image editing and video production. However, existing methods face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Enbo Huang , Yuan Zhang , Faliang Huang , Guangyu Zhang , Yang Liu

Recently, diffusion model have demonstrated impressive image generation performances, and have been extensively studied in various computer vision tasks. Unfortunately, training and evaluating diffusion models consume a lot of time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Monocular depth estimation is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, especially under complex conditions such as textureless surfaces, transparency, and specular reflections. Recent diffusion-based approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rongjia Yu , Tong Jia , Hao Wang , Xiaofang Li , Xiao Yang , Zinuo Zhang , Cuiwei Liu

We present NeRSP, a Neural 3D reconstruction technique for Reflective surfaces with Sparse Polarized images. Reflective surface reconstruction is extremely challenging as specular reflections are view-dependent and thus violate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yufei Han , Heng Guo , Koki Fukai , Hiroaki Santo , Boxin Shi , Fumio Okura , Zhanyu Ma , Yunpeng Jia

Stereo images are fundamental to numerous applications, including extended reality (XR) devices, autonomous driving, and robotics. Unfortunately, acquiring high-quality stereo images remains challenging due to the precise calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Eric Xing , Nathan Jacobs

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

Accurate segmentation of floating debris on water is often compromised by surface glare and changing outdoor illumination. Polarimetric imaging offers a single-sensor route to mitigate water-surface glare that disrupts semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Luis F. W. Batista , Tom Bourbon , Cedric Pradalier

This paper proposes a novel pseudo multi-exposure image fusion method based on a single image. Multi-exposure image fusion is used to produce images without saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Conditional generative models typically demand large annotated training sets to achieve high-quality synthesis. As a result, there has been significant interest in designing models that perform plug-and-play generation, i.e., to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Anoop Cherian , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Vishal M. Patel , Tim K. Marks

Reconstructing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views from sparse input views is a highly challenging task. Recent advances in video diffusion models have demonstrated strong temporal reasoning capabilities, making them a promising tool for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuqi Zhang , Guanying Chen , Jiaxing Chen , Chuanyu Fu , Chuan Huang , Shuguang Cui

Generating 3D scenes is a challenging open problem, which requires synthesizing plausible content that is fully consistent in 3D space. While recent methods such as neural radiance fields excel at view synthesis and 3D reconstruction, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Paul Henderson

Polarization images provide rich physical information that is fundamentally absent from standard RGB images, benefiting a wide range of computer vision applications such as reflection separation and material classification. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Beibei Lin , Zifeng Yuan , Tingting Chen

Since specular reflection often exists in the real captured images and causes deviation between the recorded color and intrinsic color, specular reflection separation can bring advantages to multiple applications that require consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Sijia Wen , Yingqiang Zheng , Feng Lu

We propose a novel method for high-quality facial texture reconstruction from RGB images using a novel capturing routine based on a single smartphone which we equip with an inexpensive polarization foil. Specifically, we turn the flashlight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Dejan Azinović , Olivier Maury , Christophe Hery , Mathias Nießner , Justus Thies