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Jingwang Ling

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arXiv2026

Diffusion-Based Material Regularization for Physics-Based Inverse Rendering

Reconstructing physics-based 3D assets -- geometry, materials, and illumination -- from multi-view images is a core problem in computer graphics and vision, and a prerequisite for realistic relighting and editing. Physics-based inverse rendering offers an accurate image-formation model, but is severely underconstrained: without strong priors, illumination is baked into materials, and reconstructions generalize poorly to novel views and lighting. Data-driven diffusion models, in contrast, predict visually plausible materials, yet their predictions rarely satisfy the rendering equation and are not directly usable for physics-based rendering. We bridge these two paradigms rather than replacing either. Our key idea is to treat the predictions of a state-of-the-art diffusion model not as target material values but as a similarity kernel for optimization: we introduce a regularization loss that penalizes deviations in the optimized material over surface regions where the diffusion predictions are near-constant, while leaving the optimization free to match the input images. Built on this regularizer, our end-to-end pipeline jointly reconstructs geometry, materials, and illumination, yielding high-quality assets that drop into standard rendering pipelines and relight faithfully. On the Synthetic4Relight, Stanford-ORB, and DTC-Synthetic datasets, our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both reconstruction accuracy and relighting quality.

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arXiv2024

Guiding-Based Importance Sampling for Walk on Stars

Walk on stars (WoSt) has shown its power in being applied to Monte Carlo methods for solving partial differential equations, but the sampling techniques in WoSt are not satisfactory, leading to high variance. We propose a guiding-based importance sampling method to reduce the variance of WoSt. Drawing inspiration from path guiding in rendering, we approximate the directional distribution of the recursive term of WoSt using online-learned parametric mixture distributions, decoded by a lightweight neural field. This adaptive approach enables importance sampling the recursive term, which lacks shape information before computation. We introduce a reflection technique to represent guiding distributions at Neumann boundaries and incorporate multiple importance sampling with learnable selection probabilities to further reduce variance. We also present a practical GPU implementation of our method. Experiments show that our method effectively reduces variance compared to the original WoSt, given the same time or the same sample budget. Code and data for this paper are at https://github.com/tyanyuy3125/elaina.

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arXiv2024

2DGH: 2D Gaussian-Hermite Splatting for High-quality Rendering and Better Geometry Features

2D Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as a significant method in 3D reconstruction, enabling novel view synthesis and geometry reconstruction simultaneously. While the well-known Gaussian kernel is broadly used, its lack of anisotropy and deformation ability leads to dim and vague edges at object silhouettes, limiting the reconstruction quality of current Gaussian splatting methods. To enhance the representation power, we draw inspiration from quantum physics and propose to use the Gaussian-Hermite kernel as the new primitive in Gaussian splatting. The new kernel takes a unified mathematical form and extends the Gaussian function, which serves as the zero-rank special case in the updated general formulation. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed Gaussian-Hermite kernel achieves improved performance over traditional Gaussian Splatting kernels on both geometry reconstruction and novel-view synthesis tasks. Specifically, on the DTU dataset, our method yields more accurate geometry reconstruction, while on datasets such as MipNeRF360 and our customized Detail dataset, it achieves better results in novel-view synthesis. These results highlight the potential of the Gaussian-Hermite kernel for high-quality 3D reconstruction and rendering.

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arXiv2024

PRTGaussian: Efficient Relighting Using 3D Gaussians with Precomputed Radiance Transfer

We present PRTGaussian, a realtime relightable novel-view synthesis method made possible by combining 3D Gaussians and Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT). By fitting relightable Gaussians to multi-view OLAT data, our method enables real-time, free-viewpoint relighting. By estimating the radiance transfer based on high-order spherical harmonics, we achieve a balance between capturing detailed relighting effects and maintaining computational efficiency. We utilize a two-stage process: in the first stage, we reconstruct a coarse geometry of the object from multi-view images. In the second stage, we initialize 3D Gaussians with the obtained point cloud, then simultaneously refine the coarse geometry and learn the light transport for each Gaussian. Extensive experiments on synthetic datasets show that our approach can achieve fast and high-quality relighting for general objects. Code and data are available at https://github.com/zhanglbthu/PRTGaussian.

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arXiv2024

NeRF as a Non-Distant Environment Emitter in Physics-based Inverse Rendering

Physics-based inverse rendering enables joint optimization of shape, material, and lighting based on captured 2D images. To ensure accurate reconstruction, using a light model that closely resembles the captured environment is essential. Although the widely adopted distant environmental lighting model is adequate in many cases, we demonstrate that its inability to capture spatially varying illumination can lead to inaccurate reconstructions in many real-world inverse rendering scenarios. To address this limitation, we incorporate NeRF as a non-distant environment emitter into the inverse rendering pipeline. Additionally, we introduce an emitter importance sampling technique for NeRF to reduce the rendering variance. Through comparisons on both real and synthetic datasets, our results demonstrate that our NeRF-based emitter offers a more precise representation of scene lighting, thereby improving the accuracy of inverse rendering.

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arXiv2024

High-Quality Mesh Blendshape Generation from Face Videos via Neural Inverse Rendering

Readily editable mesh blendshapes have been widely used in animation pipelines, while recent advancements in neural geometry and appearance representations have enabled high-quality inverse rendering. Building upon these observations, we introduce a novel technique that reconstructs mesh-based blendshape rigs from single or sparse multi-view videos, leveraging state-of-the-art neural inverse rendering. We begin by constructing a deformation representation that parameterizes vertex displacements into differential coordinates with tetrahedral connections, allowing for high-quality vertex deformation on high-resolution meshes. By constructing a set of semantic regulations in this representation, we achieve joint optimization of blendshapes and expression coefficients. Furthermore, to enable a user-friendly multi-view setup with unsynchronized cameras, we propose a neural regressor to model time-varying motion parameters. This approach implicitly considers the time difference across multiple cameras, enhancing the accuracy of motion modeling. Experiments demonstrate that, with the flexible input of single or sparse multi-view videos, we reconstruct personalized high-fidelity blendshapes. These blendshapes are both geometrically and semantically accurate, and they are compatible with industrial animation pipelines. Code and data are available at https://github.com/grignarder/high-quality-blendshape-generation.

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arXiv2023

ShadowNeuS: Neural SDF Reconstruction by Shadow Ray Supervision

By supervising camera rays between a scene and multi-view image planes, NeRF reconstructs a neural scene representation for the task of novel view synthesis. On the other hand, shadow rays between the light source and the scene have yet to be considered. Therefore, we propose a novel shadow ray supervision scheme that optimizes both the samples along the ray and the ray location. By supervising shadow rays, we successfully reconstruct a neural SDF of the scene from single-view images under multiple lighting conditions. Given single-view binary shadows, we train a neural network to reconstruct a complete scene not limited by the camera's line of sight. By further modeling the correlation between the image colors and the shadow rays, our technique can also be effectively extended to RGB inputs. We compare our method with previous works on challenging tasks of shape reconstruction from single-view binary shadow or RGB images and observe significant improvements. The code and data are available at https://github.com/gerwang/ShadowNeuS.

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arXiv2022

Structure-aware Editable Morphable Model for 3D Facial Detail Animation and Manipulation

Morphable models are essential for the statistical modeling of 3D faces. Previous works on morphable models mostly focus on large-scale facial geometry but ignore facial details. This paper augments morphable models in representing facial details by learning a Structure-aware Editable Morphable Model (SEMM). SEMM introduces a detail structure representation based on the distance field of wrinkle lines, jointly modeled with detail displacements to establish better correspondences and enable intuitive manipulation of wrinkle structure. Besides, SEMM introduces two transformation modules to translate expression blendshape weights and age values into changes in latent space, allowing effective semantic detail editing while maintaining identity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed model compactly represents facial details, outperforms previous methods in expression animation qualitatively and quantitatively, and achieves effective age editing and wrinkle line editing of facial details. Code and model are available at https://github.com/gerwang/facial-detail-manipulation.

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