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[SIGGRAPH Asia '25] Editable Physically-based Reflections in Raytraced Gaussian Radiance Fields Contributions: • A reconstruction method for radiance fields, with distinct optimization for diffuse and specular components, using path tracing for the latter. • An efficient and accurate training method that reconstructs the diffuse and specular components of the... show more

MrNeRF

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MrNeRF1 year ago

Paper (pdf): Project: YouTube:

Dozer🚜1 year ago

Oh wow, would love to check out how they are instantiating individual objects in the environment to allow for that kind of part-wise duplication

MrNeRF1 year ago

They look very clean, indeed.

Sreerag Raghavan1 year ago

We’re getting closer and closer to simulated reality. This looks incredible.

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