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Recent advances in neural rendering have achieved impressive results on photorealistic shading and relighting, by using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) as a regression model to learn the rendering equation from a real-world dataset. Such…

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This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

Binaural rendering of ambisonic signals is of broad interest to virtual reality and immersive media. Conventional methods often require manually measured Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). To address this issue, we collect a paired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yin Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong , Junjie Shi , Shilei Liu , Xuzhou Ye , Ju-chiang Wang , Junping Zhang

We present a method for estimating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) from a single headshot portrait. While NeRF has demonstrated high-quality view synthesis, it requires multiple images of static scenes and thus impractical for casual captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chen Gao , Yichang Shih , Wei-Sheng Lai , Chia-Kai Liang , Jia-Bin Huang

Perceptual losses have emerged as powerful tools for training networks to enhance Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) images, offering an alternative to traditional pixel-wise losses such as Mean Squared Error, which often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Gabriel A. Viana , Luis F. Alves Pereira , Tsang Ing Ren , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Jan Sijbers

We introduce a high resolution spatially adaptive light source, or a projector, into a neural reflectance field that allows to both calibrate the projector and photo realistic light editing. The projected texture is fully differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yotam Erel , Daisuke Iwai , Amit H. Bermano

We learn a latent space for easy capture, consistent interpolation, and efficient reproduction of visual material appearance. When users provide a photo of a stationary natural material captured under flashlight illumination, first it is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Philipp Henzler , Valentin Deschaintre , Niloy J. Mitra , Tobias Ritschel

We present a new method for estimating the Neural Reflectance Field (NReF) of an object from a set of posed multi-view images under unknown lighting. NReF represents 3D geometry and appearance of objects in a disentangled manner, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

Inverse rendering seeks to reconstruct both geometry and spatially varying BRDFs (SVBRDFs) from captured images. To address the inherent ill-posedness of inverse rendering, basis BRDF representations are commonly used, modeling SVBRDFs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Seokjun Choi , Seung-Hwan Baek

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) employ neural networks to represent continuous functions by mapping coordinates to the corresponding values of the target function, with applications e.g., inverse graphics. However, INRs face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingze Ma , Qingtian Zhu , Yifan Zhan , Zhengwei Yin , Hongjun Wang , Yinqiang Zheng

We present a semi-analytical model to simulate bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) spectra of a rough slab layer containing impurities. This model has been optimized for fast computation in order to analyze hyperspectral…

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) produce state-of-the-art view synthesis results. However, they are slow to render, requiring hundreds of network evaluations per pixel to approximate a volume rendering integral. Baking NeRFs into explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Benjamin Attal , Jia-Bin Huang , Michael Zollhoefer , Johannes Kopf , Changil Kim

In this paper, we introduce a technique to estimate measured BRDFs from a sparse set of samples. Our approach offers accurate BRDF reconstructions that are generalizable to new materials. This opens the door to BDRF reconstructions from a…

In real-world reinforcement learning (RL) scenarios, agents often encounter partial observability, where incomplete or noisy information obscures the true state of the environment. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashok Arora , Neetesh Kumar

This work concerns the estimation of multidimensional nonlinear regression models using multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). The main problem with such models is that we need to know the covariance matrix of the noise to get an optimal estimator.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Joseph Rynkiewicz

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Synthesizing spectral images across different wavelengths is essential for photorealistic rendering. Unlike conventional spectral uplifting methods that convert RGB images into spectral ones, we introduce SpecGen, a novel method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhenyu Jin , Wenjie Li , Zhanyu Ma , Heng Guo

Recent advances in neural rendering have introduced numerous 3D scene representations. Although standard computer vision metrics evaluate the visual quality of generated images, they often overlook the fidelity of surface geometry. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mikolaj Zielinski , Eryk Vykysaly , Bartlomiej Biesiada , Jan Baturo , Mateusz Capala , Dominik Belter

We address the problem of estimating realistic, spatially varying reflectance for complex planetary surfaces such as the lunar regolith, which is critical for high-fidelity rendering and vision-based navigation. Existing lunar rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Clementine Grethen , Nicolas Menga , Roland Brochard , Geraldine Morin , Simone Gasparini , Jeremy Lebreton , Manuel Sanchez Gestido