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Achieving photorealistic 3D view synthesis and relighting of human portraits is pivotal for advancing AR/VR applications. Existing methodologies in portrait relighting demonstrate substantial limitations in terms of generalization and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Pramod Rao , Gereon Fox , Abhimitra Meka , Mallikarjun B R , Fangneng Zhan , Tim Weyrich , Bernd Bickel , Hanspeter Pfister , Wojciech Matusik , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Inverse rendering of indoor scenes remains challenging due to the ambiguity between reflectance and lighting, exacerbated by inter-reflections among multiple objects. While natural illumination-based methods struggle to resolve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiaye Wu , Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Peihan Tu , Matthias Zwicker , David Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

We propose a 3D latent representation that jointly models object geometry and view-dependent appearance. Most prior works focus on either reconstructing 3D geometry or predicting view-independent diffuse appearance, and thus struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Xiaoming Zhao , Dorian Chan , Oncel Tuzel

Full-image relighting remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of collecting large-scale structured paired data, the difficulty of maintaining physical plausibility, and the limited generalizability imposed by data-driven priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhexin Liang , Zhaoxi Chen , Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Tengfei Wang , Xingang Pan

The light transport (LT) of a scene describes how it appears under different lighting and viewing directions, and complete knowledge of a scene's LT enables the synthesis of novel views under arbitrary lighting. In this paper, we focus on…

Relighting of human images enables post-photography editing of lighting effects in portraits. The current mainstream approach uses neural networks to approximate lighting effects without explicitly accounting for the principle of physical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Daichi Tajima , Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

Automatically detecting/segmenting object(s) that blend in with their surroundings is difficult for current models. A major challenge is that the intrinsic similarities between such foreground objects and background surroundings make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qiang Zhai , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Cheng , Deng-Ping Fan

We present a method that takes as input a set of images of a scene illuminated by unconstrained known lighting, and produces as output a 3D representation that can be rendered from novel viewpoints under arbitrary lighting conditions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Xiuming Zhang , Matthew Tancik , Ben Mildenhall , Jonathan T. Barron

Light field photography captures rich structural information that may facilitate a number of traditional image processing and computer vision tasks. A crucial ingredient in such endeavors is accurate depth recovery. We present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Rolf Köhler , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Hirsch

Visual generation and understanding are two deeply interconnected aspects of human intelligence, yet they have been traditionally treated as separate tasks in machine learning. In this paper, we propose Jodi, a diffusion framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yifeng Xu , Zhenliang He , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In this paper, we present a Geometry-aware Neural Interpolation (Geo-NI) framework for light field rendering. Previous learning-based approaches either rely on the capability of neural networks to perform direct interpolation, which we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gaochang Wu , Yuemei Zhou , Yebin Liu , Lu Fang , Tianyou Chai

We propose a novel method, StyLitGAN, for relighting and resurfacing generated images in the absence of labeled data. Our approach generates images with realistic lighting effects, including cast shadows, soft shadows, inter-reflections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Anand Bhattad , D. A. Forsyth

We introduce LightIt, a method for explicit illumination control for image generation. Recent generative methods lack lighting control, which is crucial to numerous artistic aspects of image generation such as setting the overall mood or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Peter Kocsis , Julien Philip , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Matthias Nießner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables high-fidelity reconstruction of scene geometry and appearance. Building on this capability, inserting external mesh objects into reconstructed 3DGS scenes enables interactive editing and content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tianyu Huang , Zhenyang Ren , Zhenchen Wan , Jiyang Zheng , Wenjie Wang , Runnan Chen , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Reconstructing hand-held objects from monocular RGB images is an appealing yet challenging task. In this task, contacts between hands and objects provide important cues for recovering the 3D geometry of the hand-held objects. Though recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Junxing Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Zerui Chen , Mengcheng Li , Yunlong Wang , Yebin Liu , Zhenan Sun

Object compositing offers significant promise for augmented reality (AR) and embodied intelligence applications. Existing approaches predominantly focus on single-image scenarios or intrinsic decomposition techniques, facing challenges with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kerui Ren , Jiayang Bai , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Jiangmiao Pang , Mulin Yu , Bo Dai

Generative reconstruction methods compute the 3D configuration (such as pose and/or geometry) of a shape by optimizing the overlap of the projected 3D shape model with images. Proper handling of occlusions is a big challenge, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Helge Rhodin , Nadia Robertini , Christian Richardt , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

We present InvRGB+L, a novel inverse rendering model that reconstructs large, relightable, and dynamic scenes from a single RGB+LiDAR sequence. Conventional inverse graphics methods rely primarily on RGB observations and use LiDAR mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaoxue Chen , Bhargav Chandaka , Chih-Hao Lin , Ya-Qin Zhang , David Forsyth , Hao Zhao , Shenlong Wang

Understanding shadows from a single image spontaneously derives into two types of task in previous studies, containing shadow detection and shadow removal. In this paper, we present a multi-task perspective, which is not embraced by any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jifeng Wang , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Jian Yang