Ambient-robust Inverse Rendering using Active RGB-NIR Imaging

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Hauptverfasser: Chung, Hoon-Gyu, Kim, Jinnyeong, Kang, Hyunwoo, Baek, Seung-Hwan
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author Chung, Hoon-Gyu
Kim, Jinnyeong
Kang, Hyunwoo
Baek, Seung-Hwan
author_facet Chung, Hoon-Gyu
Kim, Jinnyeong
Kang, Hyunwoo
Baek, Seung-Hwan
contents Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance of objects from images. Despite recent progress, existing methods often produces inaccurate reconstructions that are sensitive to ambient illumination conditions. Here we introduce an ambient-robust inverse rendering method enabled by active RGB-NIR imaging. Our key insight is to leverage near-infrared (NIR) flash illumination-imperceptible to human observers-to obtain stable point-light shading that is largely invariant to ambient illumination. By using multi-view RGB images illuminated by ambient light and NIR images acquired with active NIR flash illumination, we reconstruct accurate geometry and reflectance by exploiting the complementary benefits of RGB and NIR images via a three-stage inverse rendering method. To enable dense multi-view acquisition, we develop an active imaging system equipped with a RGB-NIR camera and a NIR flash mounted on a mobile base. Using this system, we collect the first multi-view RGB-NIR inverse rendering dataset captured under multiple ambient illumination conditions. Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms prior approaches, achieving accurate geometry and reflectance estimation across multiple ambient lighting scenarios.
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spellingShingle Ambient-robust Inverse Rendering using Active RGB-NIR Imaging
Chung, Hoon-Gyu
Kim, Jinnyeong
Kang, Hyunwoo
Baek, Seung-Hwan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance of objects from images. Despite recent progress, existing methods often produces inaccurate reconstructions that are sensitive to ambient illumination conditions. Here we introduce an ambient-robust inverse rendering method enabled by active RGB-NIR imaging. Our key insight is to leverage near-infrared (NIR) flash illumination-imperceptible to human observers-to obtain stable point-light shading that is largely invariant to ambient illumination. By using multi-view RGB images illuminated by ambient light and NIR images acquired with active NIR flash illumination, we reconstruct accurate geometry and reflectance by exploiting the complementary benefits of RGB and NIR images via a three-stage inverse rendering method. To enable dense multi-view acquisition, we develop an active imaging system equipped with a RGB-NIR camera and a NIR flash mounted on a mobile base. Using this system, we collect the first multi-view RGB-NIR inverse rendering dataset captured under multiple ambient illumination conditions. Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms prior approaches, achieving accurate geometry and reflectance estimation across multiple ambient lighting scenarios.
title Ambient-robust Inverse Rendering using Active RGB-NIR Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30250