The paper introduces Reflection-aware Gaussian Splatting (RGS), a physically-based deferred rendering framework that improves novel view synthesis for reflective objects. RGS leverages a powerful 3D foundation model to provide a strong geometric prior and employs cross-view shape consistency regularization to prevent surface collapse and reduce geometric hollows. Additionally, a reflection-aware densification strategy captures specular variations across views, resulting in higher-quality renderings of reflective objects.
By Xiaobiao Du, Yida Wang, Cheng Bi, Kun Zhan, Xin Yu
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
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.
By Jiaye Wu, Saeed Hadadan, Geng Lin, Peihan Tu, Auguste Gezalyan, Matthias Zwicker, David Jacobs, Roni Sengupta
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.
arXiv:2610.01876v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A surface photographed under even light presents nearly the same appearance from every angle; the same surface under uneven light does not. Exposure ch...
By Tongyu Wu, Jacob Edwards, Ziteng Cui, Caigui Jiang, Cheng Wang
arXiv:2609.37115v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the role of appearance modeling in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and show that limited expressiveness in view-dependent reflectance is a key...
By Pratik Singh Bisht, Andreas Kolb