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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,…

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Recent advances have shown that large-scale video diffusion models can be repurposed as neural renderers by first decomposing videos into intrinsic scene representations and then performing forward rendering under novel illumination. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Weiqing Xiao , Hong Li , Xiuyu Yang , Houyuan Chen , Wenyi Li , Tianqi Liu , Shaocong Xu , Chongjie Ye , Hao Zhao , Beibei Wang

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

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…

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This position paper argues for the use of \emph{structured generative models} (SGMs) for the understanding of static scenes. This requires the reconstruction of a 3D scene from an input image (or a set of multi-view images), whereby the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Christopher K. I. Williams

We propose SIR, an efficient method to decompose differentiable shadows for inverse rendering on indoor scenes using multi-view data, addressing the challenges in accurately decomposing the materials and lighting conditions. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaokang Wei , Zhuoman Liu , Ping Li , Yan Luximon

Conventional imaging requires a line of sight to create accurate visual representations of a scene. In certain circumstances, however, obtaining a suitable line of sight may be impractical, dangerous, or even impossible. Non-line-of-sight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Fadlullah Raji , John Murray-Bruce

Decoupling lighting from geometry using unconstrained photo collections is notoriously challenging. Solving it would benefit many users as creating complex 3D assets takes days of manual labor. Many previous works have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Joanna Kaleta , Kacper Kania , Tomasz Trzcinski , Marek Kowalski

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Yanzhen Chen , Xinyu Gao , Yazhen Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Xiaogang Jin

Humans have the remarkable ability to construct consistent mental models of an environment, even under limited or varying levels of illumination. We wish to endow robots with this same capability. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyi Zhang , Kaining Huang , Weiming Zhi , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Recovering the geometry and materials of objects from a single image is challenging due to its under-constrained nature. In this paper, we present Neural LightRig, a novel framework that boosts intrinsic estimation by leveraging auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zexin He , Tengfei Wang , Xin Huang , Xingang Pan , Ziwei Liu

We introduce a model named DreamLight for universal image relighting in this work, which can seamlessly composite subjects into a new background while maintaining aesthetic uniformity in terms of lighting and color tone. The background can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yong Liu , Wenpeng Xiao , Qianqian Wang , Junlin Chen , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yansong Tang

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated strong potential for large-scale UAV-based 3D reconstruction tasks by fitting the appearance of images. However, real-world large-scale captures are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Zhuoxiao Li , Wenzong Ma , Taoyu Wu , Jinjing Zhu , Zhenchao Q , Shuai Zhang , Jing Ou , Yinrui Ren , Weiqing Qi , Guobin Shen , Hui Xiong , Wufan Zhao

Recent breakthroughs in radiance fields have significantly advanced 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis (NVS) in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, critical limitations persist: reconstruction-based methods exhibit substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yingshuang Zou , Yikang Ding , Chuanrui Zhang , Jiazhe Guo , Bohan Li , Xiaoyang Lyu , Feiyang Tan , Xiaojuan Qi , Haoqian Wang

We propose Light-Geometry Interaction (LGI) maps, a novel representation that encodes light-aware occlusion from monocular depth. Unlike ray tracing, which requires full 3D reconstruction, LGI captures essential light-shadow interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Wang , Peixia Li , Chenchen Xu , Ziang Cheng , Jiayu Yang , Hongdong Li , Pulak Purkait

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

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

Image data captured outdoors often exhibit unbounded scenes and unconstrained, varying lighting conditions, making it challenging to decompose them into geometry, reflectance, and illumination. Recent works have focused on achieving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lianjun Liao , Chunhui Zhang , Tong Wu , Henglei Lv , Bailin Deng , Lin Gao

Image relighting has emerged as a problem of significant research interest inspired by augmented reality applications. Physics-based traditional methods, as well as black box deep learning models, have been developed. The existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga