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Poster
S$^3$-NeRF: Neural Reflectance Field from Shading and Shadow under a Single Viewpoint
Wenqi Yang · Guanying Chen · Chaofeng Chen · Zhenfang Chen · Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Wed Nov 30 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #216

In this paper, we address the "dual problem" of multi-view scene reconstruction in which we utilize single-view images captured under different point lights to learn a neural scene representation. Different from existing single-view methods which can only recover a 2.5D scene representation (i.e., a normal / depth map for the visible surface), our method learns a neural reflectance field to represent the 3D geometry and BRDFs of a scene. Instead of relying on multi-view photo-consistency, our method exploits two information-rich monocular cues, namely shading and shadow, to infer scene geometry. Experiments on multiple challenging datasets show that our method is capable of recovering 3D geometry, including both visible and invisible parts, of a scene from single-view images. Thanks to the neural reflectance field representation, our method is robust to depth discontinuities. It supports applications like novel-view synthesis and relighting. Our code and model can be found at https://ywq.github.io/s3nerf.

Author Information

Wenqi Yang (The University of Hong Kong)
Guanying Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chaofeng Chen (Nanyang Technological University)

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at S-Lab in Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Weisi Lin. I received my Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong in January 2021. I did my Ph.D. research at Computer Vision Lab in HKU, advised by Dr. Kenneth K.Y. Wong. Prior to studying at HKU, I received my B.Eng. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Current research topics include: - Low level vision, including image quality assessment, restoration and enhancement. - Image-to-image translation - 3D-aware image synthesis/rendering/editing - Face related tasks

Zhenfang Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
Kwan-Yee K. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)

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