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3D rendering of dynamic face captures is a challenging problem, and it demands improvements on several fronts$\unicode{x2014}$photorealism, efficiency, compatibility, and configurability. We present a novel representation that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ruofei Du , Stephan Garbin , Philip Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

With the emergence of neural radiance fields (NeRFs), view synthesis quality has reached an unprecedented level. Compared to traditional mesh-based assets, this volumetric representation is more powerful in expressing scene geometry but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yuan-Chen Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Chen Wang , Yu He , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Song-Hai Zhang

We present a differentiable representation, DMesh, for general 3D triangular meshes. DMesh considers both the geometry and connectivity information of a mesh. In our design, we first get a set of convex tetrahedra that compactly tessellates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyun Son , Matheus Gadelha , Yang Zhou , Zexiang Xu , Ming C. Lin , Yi Zhou

We present a super-fast convergence approach to reconstructing the per-scene radiance field from a set of images that capture the scene with known poses. This task, which is often applied to novel view synthesis, is recently revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Cheng Sun , Min Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

In recent years, novel view synthesis has gained popularity in generating high-fidelity images. While demonstrating superior performance in the task of synthesizing novel views, the majority of these methods are still based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xiaoyan Yang , Dingbo Lu , Yang Li , Chenhui Li , Changbo Wang

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Haithem Turki , Vasu Agrawal , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder , Deva Ramanan , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt

X-ray tomographic reconstruction typically uses voxel basis functions to represent volumetric images. Due to the structure in voxel basis representations, efficient ray-tracing methods exist allowing fast, GPU accelerated implementations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ander Biguri , Hossein Towsyfyan , Richard Boardman , Thomas Blumensath

Accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for downstream robotic tasks such as navigation, manipulation, and environment understanding. However, obtaining precise camera poses in real-world settings remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sriram Srinivasan , Gautam Ramachandra

We propose a novel Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) representation for non-opaque scenes that enables fast inference by utilizing textured polygons. Despite the high-quality novel view rendering that NeRF provides, a critical limitation is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Gopal Sharma , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

We present a method for generating high-quality watertight manifold meshes from multi-view input images. Existing volumetric rendering methods are robust in optimization but tend to generate noisy meshes with poor topology. Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xinyue Wei , Fanbo Xiang , Sai Bi , Anpei Chen , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Zexiang Xu , Hao Su

3D shape representations that accommodate learning-based 3D reconstruction are an open problem in machine learning and computer graphics. Previous work on neural 3D reconstruction demonstrated benefits, but also limitations, of point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jun Gao , Wenzheng Chen , Tommy Xiang , Clement Fuji Tsang , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Presenting real-time rendering of 3D surfaces using radiance textures for fast synthesis of complex incidence-variable effects and environment interactions. This includes iridescence, parallax occlusion and interior mapping, (specular,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Jakub Maksymilian Fober

Neural Radiance Fields or NeRFs have become the representation of choice for problems in view synthesis or image-based rendering, as well as in many other applications across computer graphics and vision, and beyond. At their core, NeRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ravi Ramamoorthi

We introduce TetWeave, a novel isosurface representation for gradient-based mesh optimization that jointly optimizes the placement of a tetrahedral grid used for Marching Tetrahedra and a novel directional signed distance at each point.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Alexandre Binninger , Ruben Wiersma , Philipp Herholz , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

We propose a novel explicit dense 3D reconstruction approach that processes a set of images of a scene with sensor poses and calibrations and estimates a photo-real digital model. One of the key innovations is that the underlying volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samir Aroudj , Steven Lovegrove , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Michael Goesele , Richard Newcombe

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a popular view synthesis technique that represents a scene as a continuous volumetric function, parameterized by multilayer perceptrons that provide the volume density and view-dependent emitted radiance at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Dor Verbin , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Todd Zickler , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan

Radiance fields have revolutionized photo-realistic 3D scene visualization by enabling high-fidelity reconstruction of complex environments, making them an ideal match for light field displays. However, integrating these technologies…

Learning radiance fields (NeRF) with powerful 2D diffusion models has garnered popularity for text-to-3D generation. Nevertheless, the implicit 3D representations of NeRF lack explicit modeling of meshes and textures over surfaces, and such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Haibo Yang , Yang Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

The neural radiance fields (NeRF) have emerged as a prominent methodology for synthesizing realistic images of novel views. While neural radiance representations based on voxels or mesh individually offer distinct advantages, excelling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chenhao Zhang , Yongyang Zhou , Lei Zhang