DURAND , Fredo

We propose a novel method to handle thin structures in Image-Based Rendering (IBR), and specifically structures supportedby simple geometric shapes such as planes, cylinders, etc. These structures, e.g. railings, fences, oven grills etc, are present inmany man-made environments and are extremely challenging for multi-view 3D reconstruction,...

Bidirectional Path Tracing Probabilistic Connections for Bidirectional Path Tracing Figure 1: Our Probabilistic Connections for Bidirectional Path Tracing approach importance samples connections to an eye sub-path, and greatly reduces variance, by considering and reusing multiple light sub-paths at once. Our approach (right) achieves much...

Abstract Street-level imagery is now abundant but does not have sufficient capture density to be usable for Image-Based Rendering (IBR) of facades. We present a method that exploits repetitive elements in facades – such as windows – to perform data augmentation, in turn improving camera calibration, reconstructed geometry and overall rendering...

Texture, highlights, and shading are some of many visual cues that allow humans to perceive material appearance in single pictures. Yet, recovering spatially-varying bi-directional reflectance distribution functions (SVBRDFs) from a single image based on such cues has challenged researchers in computer graphics for decades. We tackle...

Infinite impulse response (IIR) or recursive filters, are essential for image processing because they turn expensive large-footprint convolutions into operations that have a constant cost per pixel regardless of kernel size. However, their recursive nature constrains the order in which pixels can be computed, severely limiting both parallelism...

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