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:2606. 30380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RenderFormer++, a scalable and physically grounded feed-forward neural rendering framework for global illumination in mesh scenes.
GLOW is a Global Illumination‑aware inverse rendering framework for indoor scenes captured with dynamic co‑located light and camera setups. It combines a neural implicit surface representation with a neural radiance cache to jointly optimize geometry and reflectance, while introducing a dynamic radiance cache and a surface‑angle‑weighted radiometric loss to handle near‑field motion, strong inter‑reflections, and specular highlights. Experiments demonstrate that GLOW significantly outperforms prior methods in estimating material reflectance under both natural and co‑located illumination.
arXiv:2609.31198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Light Field Primitives (LFP), a formulation for novel view synthesis that replaces the dense ray database with a compact set of differentiab...
PureLight introduces a neural approach to estimate the appearance of complex luminaires that are difficult for traditional path tracing, such as small emitters surrounded by multiple specular layers. The method uses light tracing to build paths from emitters to exit surfaces and learns the probability density function of outgoing radiance with a large normalizing flow network, then distills this into a lightweight MLP for efficient inference. Additionally, a sampling network and a blending network are trained to compute direct illumination and composite the luminaire into arbitrary scenes, enabling low‑sample rendering of challenging luminaires.
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...
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2609.05738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present 'RenderFormer-V2', a unified learned transformer-based neural rendering model, complementary to modern physics-based rendering systems, th...
arXiv:2606. 30380v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present RenderFormer++, a scalable and physics-informed feed-forward neural rendering framework for global illumination in mesh scenes.
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...
arXiv:2605.10360v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains...