State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

N Jakica - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies
and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for …

Nerfstudio: A modular framework for neural radiance field development

M Tancik, E Weber, E Ng, R Li, B Yi, T Wang… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are a rapidly growing area of research with wide-ranging
applications in computer vision, graphics, robotics, and more. In order to streamline the …

Physg: Inverse rendering with spherical gaussians for physics-based material editing and relighting

K Zhang, F Luan, Q Wang, K Bala… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present an end-to-end inverse rendering pipeline that includes a fully differentiable
renderer, and can reconstruct geometry, materials, and illumination from scratch from a set …

Translucency perception: A review

D Gigilashvili, JB Thomas, JY Hardeberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - jov.arvojournals.org
Translucency is an optical and a perceptual phenomenon that characterizes subsurface light
transport through objects and materials. Translucency as an optical property of a material …

Mitsuba 2: A retargetable forward and inverse renderer

M Nimier-David, D Vicini, T Zeltner… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Modern rendering systems are confronted with a dauntingly large and growing set of
requirements: in their pursuit of realism, physically based techniques must increasingly …

Tanks and temples: Benchmarking large-scale scene reconstruction

A Knapitsch, J Park, QY Zhou, V Koltun - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present a benchmark for image-based 3D reconstruction. The benchmark sequences
were acquired outside the lab, in realistic conditions. Ground-truth data was captured using …

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 …

Shape completion using 3d-encoder-predictor cnns and shape synthesis

A Dai, C Ruizhongtai Qi… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce a data-driven approach to complete partial 3D shapes through a combination
of volumetric deep neural networks and 3D shape synthesis. From a partially-scanned input …

St-gan: Spatial transformer generative adversarial networks for image compositing

CH Lin, E Yumer, O Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of finding realistic geometric corrections to a foreground object
such that it appears natural when composited into a background image. To achieve this, we …

Augmented reality meets computer vision: Efficient data generation for urban driving scenes

H Abu Alhaija, SK Mustikovela, L Mescheder… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
The success of deep learning in computer vision is based on the availability of large
annotated datasets. To lower the need for hand labeled images, virtually rendered 3D …