Efficient photon beam diffusion for directional subsurface scattering

S Liang, Y Gao, C Hu, A Hao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time subsurface scattering techniques are widely used in translucent material
rendering. Among advanced methods that rely on the bidirectional scattering-surface …

Recursive control variates for inverse rendering

B Nicolet, F Rousselle, J Novak, A Keller… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present a method for reducing errors---variance and bias---in physically based
differentiable rendering (PBDR). Typical applications of PBDR repeatedly render a scene as …

Differentiable rendering using rgbxy derivatives and optimal transport

J **ng, F Luan, LQ Yan, X Hu, H Qian… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Traditional differentiable rendering approaches are usually hard to converge in inverse
rendering optimizations, especially when initial and target object locations are not so close …

Inverse rendering of translucent objects using physical and neural renderers

C Li, TT Ngo, H Nagahara - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-
varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment …

Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing

B Nicolet, F Wechsler, J Madrid-Wolff, C Moser… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (TVAM) is an emerging 3D printing
technology that can create complex objects in under a minute. The key idea is to project …

Eclipse: Disambiguating illumination and materials using unintended shadows

D Verbin, B Mildenhall, P Hedman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Decomposing an object's appearance into representations of its materials and the
surrounding illumination is difficult even when the object's 3D shape is known beforehand …

NeuralTO: Neural Reconstruction and View Synthesis of Translucent Objects

Y Cai, J Qiu, Z Li, B Ren - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2024 - dl.acm.org
Learning from multi-view images using neural implicit signed distance functions shows
impressive performance on 3D Reconstruction of opaque objects. However, existing …

Deep Polarization Cues for Single-shot Shape and Subsurface Scattering Estimation

C Li, TT Ngo, H Nagahara - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
In this work, we propose a novel learning-based method to jointly estimate the shape and
subsurface scattering (SSS) parameters of translucent objects by utilizing polarization cues …

Neural relighting with subsurface scattering by learning the radiance transfer gradient

S Zhu, S Saito, A Bozic, C Aliaga, T Darrell… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reconstructing and relighting objects and scenes under varying lighting conditions is
challenging: existing neural rendering methods often cannot handle the complex …

State of the Art in Efficient Translucent Material Rendering with BSSRDF

S Liang, Y Gao, C Hu, P Zhou, A Hao… - Computer Graphics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sub‐surface scattering is always an important feature in translucent material rendering.
When light travels through optically thick media, its transport within the medium can be …