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Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

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We introduce Omni-LOS, a neural computational imaging method for conducting holistic shape reconstruction (HSR) of complex objects utilizing a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD)-based time-of-flight sensor. As illustrated in Fig. 1, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Binbin Huang , Xingyue Peng , Siyuan Shen , Suan Xia , Ruiqian Li , Yanhua Yu , Yuehan Wang , Shenghua Gao , Wenzheng Chen , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

We present SSD-GS, a physically-based relighting framework built upon 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that achieves high-quality reconstruction and photorealistic relighting under novel lighting conditions. In physically-based relighting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Iris Zheng , Guojun Tang , Alexander Doronin , Paul Teal , Fang-Lue Zhang

Time-of-Flight non-line-of-sight (ToF NLOS) imaging techniques provide state-of-the-art reconstructions of scenes hidden around corners by inverting the optical path of indirect photons scattered by visible surfaces and measured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Julio Marco , Adrian Jarabo , Ji Hyun Nam , Alberto Tosi , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

The study of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is growing due to its many potential applications, including rescue operations and pedestrian detection by self-driving cars. However, implementing NLOS imaging on a moving camera remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shenbagaraj Kannapiran , Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya , Spring Berman

Recent works have demonstrated non-line of sight (NLOS) reconstruction by using the time-resolved signal frommultiply scattered light. These works combine ultrafast imaging systems with computation, which back-projects the recorded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Victor Arellano , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

Diffusion models have recently demonstrated an impressive ability to address inverse problems in an unsupervised manner. While existing methods primarily focus on modifying the posterior sampling process, the potential of the forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Gongye Liu , Haoze Sun , Jiayi Li , Fei Yin , Yujiu Yang

Active imaging systems sample the Transient Light Transport Matrix (TLTM) for a scene by sequentially illuminating various positions in this scene using a controllable light source, and then measuring the resulting spatiotemporal light…

Recently, there has been an increase in the demand of virtual 3D objects representing real-life objects. A plethora of methods and systems have already been proposed for the acquisition of the geometry of real-life objects ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Qing Gu , Kyriakos Herakleous , Charalambos Poullis

Conventional sensor systems record information about directly visible objects, whereas occluded scene components are considered lost in the measurement process. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) methods try to recover such hidden objects from their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nicolas Scheiner , Florian Kraus , Fangyin Wei , Buu Phan , Fahim Mannan , Nils Appenrodt , Werner Ritter , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer , Bernhard Sick , Felix Heide

Challenging to capture, and challenging to display on a cellphone screen, the panorama paradoxically remains both a staple and underused feature of modern mobile camera applications. In this work we address both of these challenges with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ilya Chugunov , Amogh Joshi , Kiran Murthy , Francois Bleibel , Felix Heide

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications. With coherent illumination, the light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xin Lei , Liangyu He , Yixuan Tan , Ken Xingze Wang , Xinggang Wang , Yihan Du , Shanhui Fan , Zongfu Yu

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

Active 3D measurement, especially structured light (SL) has been widely used in various fields for its robustness against textureless or equivalent surfaces by low light illumination. In addition, reconstruction of large scenes by moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kazuto Ichimaru , Diego Thomas , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Many computer vision problems (e.g., camera calibration, image alignment, structure from motion) are solved with nonlinear optimization methods. It is generally accepted that second order descent methods are the most robust, fast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Xuehan Xiong , Fernando De la Torre

Immersive novel view generation is an important technology in the field of graphics and has recently also received attention for operator-based human-robot interaction. However, the involved training is time-consuming, and thus the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuchter

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging allows for the imaging of objects around a corner, which enables potential applications in various fields such as autonomous driving, robotic vision, medical imaging, security monitoring, etc. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Duolan Huang , Quan Chen , Zhun Wei , Rui Chen

We present a neural modeling framework for Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging. Previous solutions have sought to explicitly recover the 3D geometry (e.g., as point clouds) or voxel density (e.g., within a pre-defined volume) of the hidden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siyuan Shen , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

We introduce an interactive Soft Shadow Network (SSN) to generates controllable soft shadows for image compositing. SSN takes a 2D object mask as input and thus is agnostic to image types such as painting and vector art. An environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yichen Sheng , Jianming Zhang , Bedrich Benes