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arxiv: 2403.15651 · v5 · submitted 2024-03-22 · 💻 cs.CV

GaNI: Global and Near Field Illumination Aware Neural Inverse Rendering

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keywords inverse renderingneural renderingreflectance estimationnear-field illuminationco-located light and camerageometry reconstructionalbedo and roughness
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The pith

GaNI reconstructs geometry albedo and roughness from co-located light-camera images by separating NeuS geometry from light-position-aware inverse neural radiosity and adding fixes for near-field effects.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that a two-stage neural pipeline can recover scene properties from flashlight photographs of multi-object environments without requiring constant dark-room lighting. It first builds geometry with NeuS volumetric rendering then estimates albedo and roughness via inverse neural radiosity, but only after adding implicit near-field modeling, a surface angle loss for speculars, a light-position radiance cache, and roughness smoothness priors. A sympathetic reader would care because prior co-located methods either ignored global and near-field illumination or assumed fixed light positions, limiting them to single objects. If the approach holds, it would allow practical capture of reflectance parameters in ordinary indoor scenes with a moving handheld light.

Core claim

The authors claim that their two-stage system, after the listed technical fixes, outperforms existing co-located inverse rendering techniques by delivering significantly better reflectance estimates and modestly better geometry on both synthetic and real data, without needing a dark room.

What carries the argument

Two-stage pipeline of NeuS geometry followed by inverse neural radiosity, augmented with implicit near-field illumination modeling, surface angle loss, light-position-aware radiance cache, and roughness smoothness priors.

If this is right

  • Reflectance parameters are recovered more accurately than in prior co-located methods.
  • Geometry improves slightly over capture strategies that skip dark-room conditions.
  • Moving flashlights during capture become usable because the radiance cache accounts for changing light position.
  • Multi-object scenes with global illumination can be processed without assuming constant lighting.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same separation strategy might extend to other non-constant illumination sources if the near-field and position-aware modules are retrained.
  • Casual phone-flash captures could become sufficient input for material digitization pipelines in consumer applications.
  • Failure cases on highly specular or translucent surfaces would indicate where additional priors are still required.

Load-bearing premise

The introduced fixes for near-field illumination and specular reflections keep the geometry-to-reflectance separation stable even when NeuS produces errors typical of flashlight capture.

What would settle it

A real multi-object scene captured with a moving co-located flashlight where measured albedo and roughness values differ substantially from the method's output would falsify the performance claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2403.15651 by David Jacobs, Geng Lin, Jiaye Wu, Matthias Zwicker, Roni Sengupta, Saeed Hadadan.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: We perform inverse rendering of a scene from multiple images captured with co-located light and camera. Our method, GaNI, produces better geometry, albedo, roughness and re-rendering in unseen views than state-of-the-art approaches, IRON [37] and WildLight [4], that also uses co-located light-camera. reconstruct material reflectance i.e the Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF), [12, 28, … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our pipeline. Our system consists of two stages. In the first stage, we reconstruct geometry with volume rendering under near-field and global il￾lumination. In the second stage, we extract accurate material properties with surface rendering while accounting for multi-bounce global illumination while solving the ren￾dering equation by minimizing the radiometric prior. Our output is principled B… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of geometry and re-rendering. not model near-field illumination. We test all compared methods in a dark￾room. While WildLight is designed for capture under ambient ilumination, we found such design has trouble converging correctly for multi-object scenes under ambient illumination. We will show the results in supplementary. The original implementation of IRON uses Mitsuba roughplasti… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of reflectance estimation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of our method with Neilf++ [36], a state-of-the-art inverse ren￾dering algorithm for natural illumination. We captured the same scene under both natural and co-located illuminations with similar number of images and camera poses. We found that our method significantly outperforms Neilf++, epsecially in albedo. Quantitative Evaluation of Re￾flectance on Synthetic data We compare the reflectance e… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation of our proposed surface angle weighting. Red box highlights areas where specular inter-reflection causes ar￾tifacts in geometry without surface angle weighting. Such error become significantly less pronounced in our full variant. We perform ablation of individual component of our system, surface an￾gle weighting, and our second stage to show their effectiveness. Ablation study of Surface An￾gle We… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative results of WildLight on Co-located Light and Camera under ambi￾ent natural illumination. A2 Real Data Capture Setup and Post-processing We capture all of our real data using an iPhone XS Max and an iPhone 11 Pro. We capture all the image with ProCamera app on iOS as raw dng file. During capture, we keep manual and fixed white balance, focus and exposure. For co-located capture, we also keep fla… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparison on synthetic scene bedroom [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative comparison on synthetic scene coffee table [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative comparison on synthetic scene shelf [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative comparison on real scene shoe rack [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Qualitative comparison on real scene table [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative comparison on real scene window sill [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative comparison on real scene coffee table [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

In this paper, we present GaNI, a Global and Near-field Illumination-aware neural inverse rendering technique that can reconstruct geometry, albedo, and roughness parameters from images of a scene captured with co-located light and camera. Existing inverse rendering techniques with co-located light-camera focus on single objects only, without modeling global illumination and near-field lighting more prominent in scenes with multiple objects. We introduce a system that solves this problem in two stages; we first reconstruct the geometry powered by neural volumetric rendering NeuS, followed by inverse neural radiosity that uses the previously predicted geometry to estimate albedo and roughness. However, such a naive combination fails and we propose multiple technical contributions that enable this two-stage approach. We observe that NeuS fails to handle near-field illumination and strong specular reflections from the flashlight in a scene. We propose to implicitly model the effects of near-field illumination and introduce a surface angle loss function to handle specular reflections. Similarly, we observe that invNeRad assumes constant illumination throughout the capture and cannot handle moving flashlights during capture. We propose a light position-aware radiance cache network and additional smoothness priors on roughness to reconstruct reflectance. Experimental evaluation on synthetic and real data shows that our method outperforms the existing co-located light-camera-based inverse rendering techniques. Our approach produces significantly better reflectance and slightly better geometry than capture strategies that do not require a dark room.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents GaNI, a two-stage neural inverse rendering pipeline for scenes captured under co-located flashlight illumination. Stage 1 uses NeuS to recover geometry; Stage 2 feeds that geometry into a modified invNeRad (inverse neural radiosity) to recover albedo and roughness. The authors note that a direct combination fails because NeuS cannot handle near-field flashlight effects and strong specularities, and because invNeRad assumes constant illumination. They therefore introduce implicit near-field modeling, a surface-angle loss, a light-position-aware radiance cache, and roughness smoothness priors. Experiments on synthetic and real data are reported to show better reflectance and modestly better geometry than prior co-located-light methods and than capture strategies that do not require a dark room.

Significance. If the two-stage separation proves robust, the work would be useful for practical inverse rendering outside controlled dark-room settings. The explicit handling of near-field and moving-flashlight effects addresses a clear gap in existing co-located pipelines. No machine-checked proofs or parameter-free derivations are present, but the method is falsifiable via the reported synthetic/real comparisons.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Method overview] The central claim that the proposed fixes make the NeuS-to-invNeRad separation reliable rests on an untested assumption. The abstract states that the naive combination fails precisely because of near-field and specular errors in NeuS geometry; however, no quantitative ablation (e.g., controlled injection of geometry error magnitude versus resulting reflectance error) is described that would demonstrate the fixes close this gap rather than merely compensate for training instabilities.
  2. [Experimental evaluation] The outperformance claim over existing co-located techniques is load-bearing for the contribution. Without visible error tables, per-scene breakdowns, or statistical significance tests in the provided description, it is impossible to verify whether the reported reflectance gains are driven by the new components or by re-tuning of the two pre-existing networks on the target data.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Method] Notation for the light-position-aware radiance cache and the implicit near-field model should be defined explicitly with equations rather than descriptive prose only.
  2. [Implementation details] The surface-angle loss and roughness smoothness priors are introduced as necessary; their relative weighting and sensitivity to hyper-parameters should be reported in an ablation table.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions planned for the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Method overview] The central claim that the proposed fixes make the NeuS-to-invNeRad separation reliable rests on an untested assumption. The abstract states that the naive combination fails precisely because of near-field and specular errors in NeuS geometry; however, no quantitative ablation (e.g., controlled injection of geometry error magnitude versus resulting reflectance error) is described that would demonstrate the fixes close this gap rather than merely compensate for training instabilities.

    Authors: We agree that a controlled ablation injecting varying magnitudes of geometry error into the second stage and measuring the resulting reflectance error would provide stronger evidence that the proposed components (implicit near-field modeling, surface-angle loss, light-position-aware cache, and roughness priors) specifically mitigate the identified failure modes. The revised manuscript will include such an experiment on synthetic data, reporting reflectance metrics as a function of injected geometry error with and without each contribution. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experimental evaluation] The outperformance claim over existing co-located techniques is load-bearing for the contribution. Without visible error tables, per-scene breakdowns, or statistical significance tests in the provided description, it is impossible to verify whether the reported reflectance gains are driven by the new components or by re-tuning of the two pre-existing networks on the target data.

    Authors: The manuscript reports quantitative metrics on synthetic data and qualitative results on real scenes, but we acknowledge that additional tabular breakdowns would improve verifiability. The revision will add per-scene error tables for albedo and roughness, component-wise ablations, and statistical significance tests (e.g., Wilcoxon signed-rank) comparing GaNI against the baselines to clarify the source of the reported gains. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: two-stage pipeline with external priors and experimental validation

full rationale

The paper describes a two-stage method (NeuS geometry followed by modified inverse neural radiosity) with explicit technical fixes for near-field illumination, specular reflections, and moving lights. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains are shown that reduce any claimed result to its inputs by construction. The central claims rest on experimental comparisons to prior co-located techniques and non-dark-room capture, which are independent of the method definition itself.

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