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New Gabor function improves 3D scene appearance modeling

Researchers have developed a new method for representing complex appearance effects in 3D scene reconstruction, moving beyond traditional Spherical Harmonics (SH). Their work introduces the Normalized Anisotropic Spherical Gabor function, which efficiently models high-frequency details like specular reflections and glints. This new formulation offers improved reconstruction quality while being significantly more memory-efficient and faster to evaluate than existing approaches. AI

IMPACT Introduces a more efficient and effective method for modeling complex visual phenomena in 3D reconstruction, potentially improving realism in generated scenes.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ewa Miazga, Jorge Condor, Piotr Didyk ·

    Beyond Spherical Harmonics: Rethinking Appearance Models for Radiance Reconstruction

    arXiv:2606.09794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: View-dependent appearance modeling remains a challenging problem in novel-view synthesis and reconstruction. Accurately representing complex angular effects often requires substantial memory and computational resources. For new lear…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Piotr Didyk ·

    Beyond Spherical Harmonics: Rethinking Appearance Models for Radiance Reconstruction

    View-dependent appearance modeling remains a challenging problem in novel-view synthesis and reconstruction. Accurately representing complex angular effects often requires substantial memory and computational resources. For new learning-based methods, a common approach is to rely…