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Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is very popular for its ability to visually analyze surfaces by enhancing surface details through interactive relighting, starting from only a few tens of photographs taken with a fixed camera and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tinsae G. Dulecha , Leonardo Righetto , Ruggero Pintus , Enrico Gobbetti , Andrea Giachetti

Implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed impressive results for photorealistic rendering of complex scenes with fine details. However, ideal or near-perfectly specular reflecting objects such as mirrors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leif Van Holland , Ruben Bliersbach , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Transparent objects are ubiquitous in industry, pharmaceuticals, and households. Grasping and manipulating these objects is a significant challenge for robots. Existing methods have difficulty reconstructing complete depth maps for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bardienus P. Duisterhof , Yuemin Mao , Si Heng Teng , Jeffrey Ichnowski

We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We propose a new approach for large-scale high-dynamic range computational imaging. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained end-to-end can solve linear inverse imaging problems almost instantaneously. While unfolded architectures provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Amir Aghabiglou , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

Reconstructing the structure of thin films and multilayers from measurements of scattered X-rays or neutrons is key to progress in physics, chemistry, and biology. However, finding all structures compatible with reflectometry data is…

Existing methods have demonstrated effective performance on a single degradation type. In practical applications, however, the degradation is often unknown, and the mismatch between the model and the degradation will result in a severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mingde Yao , Ruikang Xu , Yuanshen Guan , Jie Huang , Zhiwei Xiong

Regression on medical image sequences can capture temporal image pattern changes and predict images at missing or future time points. However, existing geodesic regression methods limit their regression performance by a strong underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Hao Bai , Yi Hong

We introduce a deep residual recurrent neural network (DR-RNN) as an efficient model reduction technique for nonlinear dynamical systems. The developed DR-RNN is inspired by the iterative steps of line search methods in finding the residual…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-05 J. Nagoor Kani , Ahmed H. Elsheikh

We present a new method for image reconstruction which replaces the projector in a projected gradient descent (PGD) with a convolutional neural network (CNN). CNNs trained as high-dimensional (image-to-image) regressors have recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Harshit Gupta , Kyong Hwan Jin , Ha Q. Nguyen , Michael T. McCann , Michael Unser

In this article a surprising result is demonstrated using the neural tangent kernel. This kernel is defined as the inner product of the vector of the gradient of an underlying model evaluated at training points. This kernel is used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Matt Calder

We address the inverse problem of designing two-dimensional reflectors that transform light from a finite, extended source into a prescribed far-field distribution. The reflector height is represented by a neural network and optimized with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Roel Hacking , Lisa Kusch , Koondanibha Mitra , Martijn Anthonissen , Wilbert IJzerman

Recent work on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) exploits multi-view 3D consistency, achieving impressive results in 3D scene modeling and high-fidelity novel-view synthesis. However, there are limitations. First, existing methods assume enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mengfei Li , Ming Lu , Xiaofang Li , Shanghang Zhang

Eye tracking is an important tool with a wide range of applications in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies. State-of-the-art eye tracking methods are either reflection-based and track reflections of sparse point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Tianfu Wang , Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

We introduce a novel, end-to-end learnable, differentiable non-rigid tracker that enables state-of-the-art non-rigid reconstruction by a learned robust optimization. Given two input RGB-D frames of a non-rigidly moving object, we employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Aljaž Božič , Pablo Palafox , Michael Zollhöfer , Angela Dai , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner

Polarized neutron reflectometry is a powerful technique to interrogate the structures of multilayered magnetic materials with depth sensitivity and nanometer resolution. However, reflectometry profiles often inhabit a complicated objective…

We address the challenging problem of deep representation learning--the efficient adaption of a pre-trained deep network to different tasks. Specifically, we propose to explore gradient-based features. These features are gradients of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fangzhou Mu , Yingyu Liang , Yin Li

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a powerful tool for exploiting the low-rank nature of multiway data and has demonstrated great potential in a variety of important applications. In this paper, nonnegative tensor ring (NTR) decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yuyuan Yu , Guoxu Zhou , Ning Zheng , Shengli Xie , Qibin Zhao

We introduce Neural Parameter Regression (NPR), a novel framework specifically developed for learning solution operators in Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Tailored for operator learning, this approach surpasses traditional DeepONets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Konrad Mundinger , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

Existing inverse rendering combined with neural rendering methods can only perform editable novel view synthesis on object-specific scenes, while we present intrinsic neural radiance fields, dubbed IntrinsicNeRF, which introduce intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Weicai Ye , Shuo Chen , Chong Bao , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang