Recent advances in neural scene representations enable photorealistic novel-view synthesis, yet most methods remain tightly coupled to a single rendering paradigm, limiting their versatility and integration with conventional graphics workflows. We introduce Floating Radiance Networks (FlaRe), a neural scene representation combining explicit ray-traceable geometry with continuous neural radiance functions.
arXiv:2609.13397v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In rendering, a camera is a sampling operator that maps each finite pixel to a bundle of rays. Different camera models change the geometry of this bund...
By Deheng Zhang, Letian Shi, Runyi Yang, Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Kanzhi Wu, Ajad Chhatkuli, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool
arXiv:2505.05848v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Modern 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis approaches have demonstrated strong performance on scenes with opaque, non-refractive objects. Ho...
By Yue Yin, Enze Tao, Weijian Deng, Dylan Campbell
arXiv:2603. 07664v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reflective appearance, especially strong and typically near-field specular reflections, poses a fundamental challenge for accurate surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis.
By Ningjing Fan, Yiqun Wang, Dongming Yan, Peter Wonka
arXiv:2608.29269v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Relightable interactive scene reconstruction aims to build an editable 3D model from scans of different object arrangements and render new layouts unde...
By Haonan Zhou, Gaoxiang Linghu, Youlin Jia, Hongyu Cui, Kewei Wei, Kaiyue Zhou, Bruce X. B. Yu, Gaoang Wang
arXiv:2608.20602v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Many consumer smartphones, stereo cameras, and light field cameras record multiple synchronized viewpoints in a single exposure event. However, novel...
By Shamus Li, Ruiming Cao, Laura Waller, Kristina Monakhova, Sara Fridovich-Keil
Projector-camera (ProCams) systems achieve active scene perception and controllable appearance manipulation via structured illumination, serving as a core infrastructure for spatial augmented reality, projection mapping, and surface reflectance acquisition. Existing inverse-rendering methods for ProCams deliver high-fidelity results but rely on time-consuming per-scene optimization, while mainstream feed-forward 3D reconstruction models produce baked appearance that cannot adapt to spatially varying projector illumination.
RefracGS is a novel framework for generating novel views through refractive water surfaces. It jointly reconstructs the water surface using a neural height field and the underlying scene with a 3D Gaussian field, employing refraction‑aware Gaussian ray tracing based on Snell’s law. The method achieves high‑fidelity view synthesis, outperforms prior refractive approaches, and offers 15× faster training with real‑time rendering at 200 FPS.
By Yiming Shao, Qiyu Dai, Chong Gao, Guanbin Li, Yequan Wang, He Sun, Qiong Zeng, Baoquan Chen, Wenzheng Chen
The paper introduces CamTrol++, a training‑free method that stabilizes camera‑controlled novel view synthesis from a single image by decomposing large camera motions into small autoregressive steps, thereby limiting per‑step distortion and error accumulation. It also incorporates geometry‑constrained spatial attention, low‑frequency appearance anchoring, and a registration‑free warping pipeline to further enhance stability. Experiments on RealEstate10K and MegaScene demonstrate improved temporal and geometric consistency, better downstream 3D reconstruction quality, and higher generation efficiency, even for long 56‑frame sequences and under depth corruption.
By Prajwal Singh, Arjun Badola, Seema Kumari, Hajime Nagahara, Shanmuganathan Raman
InstantHDR is a feed-forward network that initializes high dynamic range (HDR) 3D scenes from uncalibrated multi-exposure low dynamic range (LDR) image collections in a single forward pass. It uses geometry-guided appearance modeling for multi-exposure fusion and a meta-network for scene-specific tone mapping. The authors also created a pre-training dataset, HDR-Pretrain, with 168 Blender-rendered scenes to support generalizable HDR models, achieving a speedup of about 700× over state‑of‑the‑art optimization methods while maintaining comparable quality after lightweight post‑optimization.
By Dingqiang Ye, Jiacong Xu, Jianglu Ping, Yuxiang Guo, Chao Fan, Vishal M. Patel
arXiv:2606. 02068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, novel view synthesis has witnessed remarkable progress, with mainstream methods such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) delivering impressive results.
By Kaidi Zhang, Guanxu Zhu
arXiv:2604. 13416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advances in radiance fields have enabled photorealistic novel view synthesis.
By Cheng-You Lu, Yi-Shan Hung, Wei-Ling Chi, Hao-Ping Wang, Charlie Li-Ting Tsai, Yu-Cheng Chang, Yu-Lun Liu, Thomas Do, Chin-Teng Lin