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Multi-view inverse rendering aims to recover geometry, materials, and illumination consistently across multiple viewpoints. When applied to multi-view images, existing single-view approaches often ignore cross-view relationships, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xiangzuo Wu , Chengwei Ren , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li , Yuan Liu

We present a physics-based framework to simulate porous, deformable materials and interactive tools with haptic feedback that can reshape it. In order to allow the material to be moulded non-homogeneously, we propose an algorithm to change…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Avirup Mandal , Parag Chaudhuri , Subhasis Chaudhuri

We introduce DiffPhy, a differentiable physics-based model for articulated 3d human motion reconstruction from video. Applications of physics-based reasoning in human motion analysis have so far been limited, both by the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Erwin Coumans , Cristian Sminchisescu

We present UniSH, a unified, feed-forward framework for joint metric-scale 3D scene and human reconstruction. A key challenge in this domain is the scarcity of large-scale, annotated real-world data, forcing a reliance on synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mengfei Li , Peng Li , Zheng Zhang , Jiahao Lu , Chengfeng Zhao , Wei Xue , Qifeng Liu , Sida Peng , Wenxiao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Yuan Liu , Yike Guo

We introduce Intrinsic Image Fusion, a method that reconstructs high-quality physically based materials from multi-view images. Material reconstruction is highly underconstrained and typically relies on analysis-by-synthesis, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Peter Kocsis , Lukas Höllein , Matthias Nießner

Reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials, composed of a lattice of discretely adaptive elements, are emerging as a promising platform for mechanical intelligence. To operate in unknown environments, such structures must go beyond passive…

This work addresses the problem of recovering complete, simulatable object geometry from reconstructed real-world scenes, enabling physics-based interaction with objects embedded in the scene. While modern multi-view reconstruction methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xin Dong , Weijian Deng , Lihan Zhang , Tianru Dai , Wenfeng Deng , Yansong Tang

We propose UniPhy, a common latent-conditioned neural constitutive model that can encode the physical properties of diverse materials. At inference UniPhy allows `inverse simulation' i.e. inferring material properties by optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Himangi Mittal , Peiye Zhuang , Hsin-Ying Lee , Shubham Tulsiani

Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from monocular video remains fundamentally challenging due to the need to jointly infer motion, structure, and appearance from limited observations. Existing dynamic scene reconstruction methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jiahui Li , Shengeng Tang , Jingxuan He , Gang Huang , Zhangye Wang , Yantao Pan , Lechao Cheng

We present a dual-pathway approach for recognizing fine-grained interactions from videos. We build on the success of prior dual-stream approaches, but make a distinction between the static and dynamic representations of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tae Soo Kim , Jonathan Jones , Gregory D. Hager

This study introduces a physics-based machine learning framework for modeling both brittle and ductile fractures. Unlike physics-informed neural networks, which solve partial differential equations by embedding physical laws as soft…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Fadi Aldakheel , Elsayed S. Elsayed , Yousef Heider , Oliver Weeger

Current video diffusion models generate visually compelling content but often violate basic laws of physics, producing subtle artifacts like rubber-sheet deformations and inconsistent object motion. We introduce a frequency-domain physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

An object's interior material properties, while invisible to the human eye, determine motion observed on its surface. We propose an approach that estimates heterogeneous material properties of an object from a monocular video of its surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berthy T. Feng , Alexander C. Ogren , Chiara Daraio , Katherine L. Bouman

3D Gaussian Splatting, known for enabling high-quality static scene reconstruction with fast rendering, is increasingly being applied to multi-view dynamic scene reconstruction. A common strategy involves learning a deformation field to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Han Jiao , Jiakai Sun , Yexing Xu , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing , Huaizhong Lin

Recent video diffusion models generate photorealistic, temporally coherent videos, yet they fall short as reliable world models for autonomous driving, where structured motion and physically consistent interactions are essential. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ahmad Rahimi , Valentin Gerard , Eloi Zablocki , Matthieu Cord , Alexandre Alahi

Recent generative video models achieve impressive visual quality but remain constrained by limited physical consistency and controllability. Existing video generation methods provide minimal physical control, and single-image-to-3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xin Zhang , Yabo Chen , Yijie Fang , Wanying Qu , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Feng Xu , Xuelong Li

Physics perception very often faces the problem that only limited data or partial measurements on the scene are available. In this work, we propose a strategy to learn the full state of sloshing liquids from measurements of the free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Beatriz Moya , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Ying-cong Chen

Visual recognition of materials and their states is essential for understanding most aspects of the world, from determining whether food is cooked, metal is rusted, or a chemical reaction has occurred. However, current image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Manuel S. Drehwald , Sagi Eppel , Jolina Li , Han Hao , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

We propose a model that is able to perform unsupervised physical parameter estimation of systems from video, where the differential equations governing the scene dynamics are known, but labeled states or objects are not available. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Miguel Jaques , Michael Burke , Timothy Hospedales