2/5/2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Regency B

Physics-based appearance models for view synthesis and inverse rendering

Author(s)

Dor Verbin | Google DeepMind

Abstract

Recent years have brought remarkable progress in 3D vision problems like view synthesis and inverse rendering. Despite these advancements, substantial challenges remain in material and lighting decomposition, geometry estimation, and view synthesis, particularly when handling a wide range of materials. In this talk, I will describe different solutions to these problems that are based on appearance models inspired by decades of research on physics-based rendering. These solutions range from explicitly using physics-based rendering in the optimization loop to applying it for training data-driven models.