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Optical phase contains key information for biomedical and astronomical imaging. However, it is often obscured by layers of heterogeneous and scattering media, which render optical phase imaging at different depths an utmost challenge.…

Recently, single gray/RGB image super-resolution reconstruction task has been extensively studied and made significant progress by leveraging the advanced machine learning techniques based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Junjun Jiang , He Sun , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

We introduce a novel neural network-based BRDF model and a Bayesian framework for object inverse rendering, i.e., joint estimation of reflectance and natural illumination from a single image of an object of known geometry. The BRDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhe Chen , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) are pervasively used in computer graphics to produce realistic physically-based appearance. In recent years, several works explored using neural networks to represent BRDFs, taking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiahui Fan , Beibei Wang , Miloš Hašan , Jian Yang , Ling-Qi Yan

Estimating surface reflectance (BRDF) is one key component for complete 3D scene capture, with wide applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, and human computer interaction. Prior work is either limited to controlled environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Kihwan Kim , Jinwei Gu , Stephen Tyree , Pavlo Molchanov , Matthias Nießner , Jan Kautz

Convolutional neural networks have been widely applied to hyperspectral image classification. However, traditional convolutions can not effectively extract features for objects with irregular distributions. Recent methods attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Di Wang , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang

We present a novel method of simulating wave effects in graphics using ray--based renderers with a new function: the Wave BSDF (Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function). Reflections from neighboring surface patches represented by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Tom Cuypers , Se Baek Oh , Tom Haber , Philippe Bekaert , Ramesh Raskar

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

We propose to tackle the multiview photometric stereo problem using an extension of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), conditioned on light source direction. The geometric part of our neural representation predicts surface normal direction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meghna Asthana , William A. P. Smith , Patrik Huber

Acquiring bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) is essential for simulating light transport and analytically modeling material properties. Over the past two decades, numerous intensity-only BRDF datasets in the visible…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yunseong Moon , Ryota Maeda , Suhyun Shin , Inseung Hwang , Youngchan Kim , Min H. Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek

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

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

We address the problem of reconstructing spatially-varying BRDFs from a small set of image measurements. This is a fundamentally under-constrained problem, and previous work has relied on using various regularization priors or on capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yu Guo , Cameron Smith , Miloš Hašan , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shuang Zhao

Recent advances in deep generative models for photo-realistic images have led to high quality visual results. Such models learn to generate data from a given training distribution such that generated images can not be easily distinguished…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification over the last few years. Despite the progress that has been made, rich and informative spectral information of HSI has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Huiling Wang

We introduce the physically based neural bidirectional reflectance distribution function (PBNBRDF), a novel, continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately reconstructs real-world materials…

Accurately evaluating the quality of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models is essential for photo-realistic rendering. Traditional BRDF-space metrics often employ numerical error measures that fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Behnaz Kavoosighafi , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Saghi Hajisharif , Ehsan Miandji , Jonas Unger

The growing demand for effective spectrum management and interference mitigation in shared bands, such as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), requires robust radar detection algorithms to protect the military transmission from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rahul Vanukuri , Shafi Ullah Khan , Talip Tolga Sarı , Gokhan Secinti , Diego Patiño , Debashri Roy

We introduce Reflectance Diffusion, a new neural text-to-texture model capable of generating high-fidelity SVBRDF maps from textual descriptions. Our method leverages a tandem neural approach, consisting of two modules, to accurately model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

We propose a novel compact and efficient neural BRDF offering highly versatile material representation, yet with very-light memory and neural computation consumption towards achieving real-time rendering. The results in Figure 1, rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yishun Dou , Zhong Zheng , Qiaoqiao Jin , Bingbing Ni , Yugang Chen , Junxiang Ke