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We present a fast and simple technique to convert images into a radiance surface-based scene representation. Building on existing radiance volume reconstruction algorithms, we introduce a subtle yet impactful modification of the loss…

We present a differentiable volume rendering solution that provides differentiability of all continuous parameters of the volume rendering process. This differentiable renderer is used to steer the parameters towards a setting with an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sebastian Weiss , Rüdiger Westermann

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

Diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However, generating high-resolution images with diffusion models is still challenging due to the enormous computational costs, resulting in a prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Muyang Li , Tianle Cai , Jiaxin Cao , Qinsheng Zhang , Han Cai , Junjie Bai , Yangqing Jia , Ming-Yu Liu , Kai Li , Song Han

Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They enable high-fidelity rendering with complex real-world lighting effects, but at the cost of high…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yinghan Xu , Théo Morales , John Dingliana

We use neural radiance fields (NeRFs) to build interactive 3D environments from large-scale visual captures spanning buildings or even multiple city blocks collected primarily from drones. In contrast to single object scenes (on which NeRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Haithem Turki , Deva Ramanan , Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Volumetric optical microscopy using non-diffracting beams enables rapid imaging of 3D volumes by projecting them axially to 2D images but lacks crucial depth information. Addressing this, we introduce MicroDiffusion, a pioneering tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mude Hui , Zihao Wei , Hongru Zhu , Fei Xia , Yuyin Zhou

Rendering huge biological scenes with atomistic detail presents a significant challenge in molecular visualization due to the memory limitations inherent in traditional rendering approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ruwayda Alharbi , Ondřej Strnad , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

Online reconstructing and rendering of large-scale indoor scenes is a long-standing challenge. SLAM-based methods can reconstruct 3D scene geometry progressively in real time but can not render photorealistic results. While NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yiming Gao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

Neural rendering techniques combining machine learning with geometric reasoning have arisen as one of the most promising approaches for synthesizing novel views of a scene from a sparse set of images. Among these, stands out the Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Albert Pumarola , Enric Corona , Gerard Pons-Moll , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

We introduce a NeRF-based active mapping system that enables efficient and robust exploration of large-scale indoor environments. The key to our approach is the extraction of a generalized Voronoi graph (GVG) from the continually updated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zijia Kuang , Zike Yan , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Hongbin Zha

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Semantic labelling is highly correlated with geometry and radiance reconstruction, as scene entities with similar shape and appearance are more likely to come from similar classes. Recent implicit neural reconstruction techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shuaifeng Zhi , Tristan Laidlow , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

The success of the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in novel view synthesis has inspired researchers to propose neural implicit scene reconstruction. However, most existing neural implicit reconstruction methods optimize per-scene parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yufan Ren , Fangjinhua Wang , Tong Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Sabine Süsstrunk

We present a framework to interactively volume-render three-dimensional data cubes using distributed ray-casting and volume bricking over a cluster of workstations powered by one or more graphics processing units (GPUs) and a multi-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. H. Hassan , C. J. Fluke , D. G. Barnes

Radiance fields have emerged as a predominant representation for modeling 3D scene appearance. Neural formulations such as Neural Radiance Fields provide high expressivity but require costly ray marching for rendering, whereas…

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the transfer of diffuse radiation on three-dimensional mesh grids which is efficient on processors with highly parallel architecture such as recently popular GPUs and CPUs with multi- and many-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Kenji Hasegawa

We introduce differentiable indirection -- a novel learned primitive that employs differentiable multi-scale lookup tables as an effective substitute for traditional compute and data operations across the graphics pipeline. We demonstrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sayantan Datta , Carl Marshall , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

GPUs are one of the most energy-consuming components for real-time rendering applications, since a large number of fragment shading computations and memory accesses are involved. Main memory bandwidth is especially taxing battery-operated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Martí Anglada , Enrique de Lucas , Joan-Manuel Parcerisa , Juan L. Aragón , Pedro Marcuello , Antonio González