NeFII: Inverse Rendering for Reflectance Decomposition with Near-Field Indirect Illumination

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different materials via Spherical Gaussians (SG), which, however, tends to blur the high-frequency reflection details. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end inverse rendering pipeline that decomposes materials and illumination from multi-view images, while considering near-field indirect illumination. In a nutshell, we introduce the Monte Carlo sampling based path tracing and cache the indirect illumination as neural radiance, enabling a physics-faithful and easy-to-optimize inverse rendering method. To enhance efficiency and practicality, we leverage SG to represent the smooth environment illuminations and apply importance sampling techniques. To supervise indirect illuminations from unobserved directions, we develop a novel radiance consistency constraint between implicit neural radiance and path tracing results of unobserved rays along with the joint optimization of materials and illuminations, thus significantly improving the decomposition performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art on multiple synthetic and real datasets, especially in terms of inter-reflection decomposition.Our code and data are available at https://woolseyyy.github.io/nefii/.

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Datasets


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Surface Normals Estimation Stanford-ORB InvRender Cosine Distance 0.06 # 2
Depth Prediction Stanford-ORB InvRender Si-MSE 0.59 # 4
Surface Reconstruction Stanford-ORB InvRender Chamfer Distance 0.44 # 2
Image Relighting Stanford-ORB InvRender HDR-PSNR 23.76 # 3
SSIM 0.970 # 3
LPIPS 0.046 # 4
Inverse Rendering Stanford-ORB InvRender HDR-PSNR 23.76 # 3

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