Neural fields in visual computing and beyond

Y **e, T Takikawa, S Saito, O Litany… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in machine learning have led to increased interest in solving visual
computing problems using methods that employ coordinate‐based neural networks. These …

Seathru-nerf: Neural radiance fields in scattering media

D Levy, A Peleg, N Pearl… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Research on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) for novel view generation is exploding with new
models and extensions. However, a question that remains unanswered is what happens in …

Neural reflectance fields for appearance acquisition

S Bi, Z Xu, P Srinivasan, B Mildenhall… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes
volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully …

The “teapot in a city”: A paradigm shift in urban climate modeling

N Villefranque, F Hourdin, L d'Alençon, S Blanco… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Urban areas are a high-stake target of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
To understand, predict, and improve the energy performance of cities, the scientific …

Object-centric neural scene rendering

M Guo, A Fathi, J Wu, T Funkhouser - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.08503, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present a method for composing photorealistic scenes from captured images of objects.
Our work builds upon neural radiance fields (NeRFs), which implicitly model the volumetric …

Deep reflectance volumes: Relightable reconstructions from multi-view photometric images

S Bi, Z Xu, K Sunkavalli, M Hašan… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
We present a deep learning approach to reconstruct scene appearance from unstructured
images captured under collocated point lighting. At the heart of Deep Reflectance Volumes …

Dynamic mesh-aware radiance fields

YL Qiao, A Gao, Y Xu, Y Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Embedding polygonal mesh assets within photorealistic Neural Radience Fields (NeRF)
volumes, such that they can be rendered and their dynamics simulated in a physically …

A differential theory of radiative transfer

C Zhang, L Wu, C Zheng, I Gkioulekas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Physics-based differentiable rendering is the task of estimating the derivatives of radiometric
measures with respect to scene parameters. The ability to compute these derivatives is …

Path-space differentiable rendering of participating media

C Zhang, Z Yu, S Zhao - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Physics-based differentiable rendering---which focuses on estimating derivatives of
radiometric detector responses with respect to arbitrary scene parameters---has a diverse …

A Monte Carlo method for fluid simulation

D Rioux-Lavoie, R Sugimoto, T Özdemir… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel Monte Carlo-based fluid simulation approach capable of pointwise and
stochastic estimation of fluid motion. Drawing on the Feynman-Kac representation of the …