Inverse Rendering

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 87 papers with code (271 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Intrinsic Image Decomposition via Ordinal Shading
  21 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We encourage the model to learn an accurate decomposition by computing losses on the estimated shading as well as the albedo implied by the intrinsic model.
• Extracting Triangular 3D Models, Materials, and Lighting From Images
  24 Nov 2021 2 repositories listed
  We present an efficient method for joint optimization of topology, materials and lighting from multi-view image observations.
• ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering
  13 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  Like other neural renderers, our system takes as input calibrated camera images and a proxy geometry of the scene, in our case a point cloud.
• TextureSplat: Per-Primitive Texture Mapping for Reflective Gaussian Splatting
  16 Jun 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 14 samples · 8 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
  Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated remarkable novel view synthesis performance at high rendering frame rates.
• SVG-IR: Spatially-Varying Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Rendering
  9 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Methods apply it to relighting by separating radiance into BRDF parameters and lighting, yet produce inferior relighting quality with artifacts and unnatural indirect illumination due to the limited capability of each…
• TensoFlow: Tensorial Flow-based Sampler for Inverse Rendering
  24 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  To address this limitation, we propose the concept of learning a spatially and directionally aware importance sampler for the rendering equation to accurately and flexibly capture the unconstrained complexity of a…
• Shadow Art Kanji: Inverse Rendering Application
  15 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Finding a balance between artistic beauty and machine-generated imagery is always a difficult task.
• ROSA: Reconstructing Object Shape and Appearance Textures by Adaptive Detail Transfer
  30 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  In particular, we refine the mesh and locally condition the surface smoothness based on the estimated normal texture and mesh curvature.
• Materialist: Physically Based Editing Using Single-Image Inverse Rendering
  7 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Given an image, our method leverages neural networks to predict initial material properties.
• PBR-NeRF: Inverse Rendering with Physics-Based Neural Fields
  12 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  To address this limitation, we present an inverse rendering (IR) model capable of jointly estimating scene geometry, materials, and illumination.
• All-frequency Full-body Human Image Relighting
  1 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  The second stage then calculates shadow for each area light and sums up to render the final image.
• Triplet: Triangle Patchlet for Mesh-Based Inverse Rendering and Scene Parameters Approximation
  16 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Our framework could precisely estimate the light, materials and geometry with mesh without prior of light, materials and geometry in a unified framework.
• Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild
  20 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph.
• A General Albedo Recovery Approach for Aerial Photogrammetric Images through Inverse Rendering
  4 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Modeling outdoor scenes for the synthetic 3D environment requires the recovery of reflectance/albedo information from raw images, which is an ill-posed problem due to the complicated unmodeled physics in this process (e.
• PIR: Photometric Inverse Rendering with Shading Cues Modeling and Surface Reflectance Regularization
  13 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images.
• MAIR++: Improving Multi-view Attention Inverse Rendering with Implicit Lighting Representation
  13 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting.
• Dynamic Scene Understanding through Object-Centric Voxelization and Neural Rendering
  30 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  The key idea is to perform object-centric voxelization to capture the 3D nature of the scene, which infers per-object occupancy probabilities at individual spatial locations.
• UniVoxel: Fast Inverse Rendering by Unified Voxelization of Scene Representation
  28 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  In this work we design a Unified Voxelization framework for explicit learning of scene representations, dubbed UniVoxel, which allows for efficient modeling of the geometry, materials and illumination jointly, thereby…
• Fine-Grained Multi-View Hand Reconstruction Using Inverse Rendering
  8 Jul 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 25 of 25 samples · 0 unverified
  Reconstructing high-fidelity hand models with intricate textures plays a crucial role in enhancing human-object interaction and advancing real-world applications.
• Uncertainty for SVBRDF Acquisition using Frequency Analysis
  25 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper aims to quantify uncertainty for SVBRDF acquisition in multi-view captures.
• Spin-UP: Spin Light for Natural Light Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo
  2 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Natural Light Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo (NaUPS) relieves the strict environment and light assumptions in classical Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo (UPS) methods.
• Objects With Lighting: A Real-World Dataset for Evaluating Reconstruction and Rendering for Object Relighting
  17 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also…
• High-Quality Mesh Blendshape Generation from Face Videos via Neural Inverse Rendering
  16 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Experiments demonstrate that, with the flexible input of single or sparse multi-view videos, we reconstruct personalized high-fidelity blendshapes.
• IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing
  8 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  We present IntrinsicAvatar, a novel approach to recovering the intrinsic properties of clothed human avatars including geometry, albedo, material, and environment lighting from only monocular videos.
• GIR: 3D Gaussian Inverse Rendering for Relightable Scene Factorization
  8 Dec 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 10 samples · 4 unverified · 10 pointer-only (licence)
  Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in both relighting and novel view synthesis tasks among the recently proposed inverse rendering methods while achieving real-time rendering.
• The Sky's the Limit: Re-lightable Outdoor Scenes via a Sky-pixel Constrained Illumination Prior and Outside-In Visibility
  28 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  The incorporation of our illumination prior is enabled by a novel `outside-in' method for computing differentiable sky visibility based on a neural directional distance function.
• GS-IR: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Rendering
  26 Nov 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  We propose GS-IR, a novel inverse rendering approach based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) that leverages forward mapping volume rendering to achieve photorealistic novel view synthesis and relighting results.
• Virtual Home Staging: Inverse Rendering and Editing an Indoor Panorama under Natural Illumination
  21 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  We propose a novel inverse rendering method that enables the transformation of existing indoor panoramas with new indoor furniture layouts under natural illumination.
• RENI++ A Rotation-Equivariant, Scale-Invariant, Natural Illumination Prior
  15 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Training our model on a curated dataset of 1.
• Stanford-ORB: A Real-World 3D Object Inverse Rendering Benchmark
  24 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We introduce Stanford-ORB, a new real-world 3D Object inverse Rendering Benchmark.

Syntology lines on 7 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.