Advances in Neural Rendering

SIGGRAPH 2021 Course

Welcome to the CVPR 2020 tutorial on Neural Rendering!

How to participate?

The tutorial will be streamed on 15th June via YouTube:

We will also have live Q&A after each talk. To join, please follow the Zoom instructions on the CVPR 2020 website (morning session, afternoon session). You can ask questions during the live Q&A, or via the YouTube or CVPR chats.

What is Neural Rendering?

Neural rendering is a new class of deep image and video generation approaches that enable explicit or implicit control of scene properties such as illumination, camera parameters, pose, geometry, appearance, and semantic structure. It combines generative machine learning techniques with physical knowledge from computer graphics to obtain controllable and photo-realistic outputs.

What will I learn in this tutorial?

This tutorial teaches the fundamentals of neural rendering and summarizes recent trends and applications. Starting with an overview of the underlying graphics, vision and machine learning concepts, we discuss critical aspects of neural rendering approaches. Specifically, our emphasis is on what aspects of the generated imagery can be controlled, which parts of the pipeline are learned, explicit vs. implicit control, generalization, and stochastic vs. deterministic synthesis. Next, we focus on the many important use cases for the described algorithms such as novel view synthesis, semantic photo manipulation, facial and body reenactment, relighting, free-viewpoint video, and the creation of photo-realistic avatars for virtual and augmented reality telepresence. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of the social implications of this technology and investigate open research problems.

Schedule

Time Topic Speaker
09:00–09:15 Welcome and Introduction Michael Zollhöfer
09:15–09:30 Fundamentals, Taxonomy, Neural Rendering Ayush Tewari
Semantic Photo Synthesis and Manipulation
09:30–09:40 Overview Jun-Yan Zhu
09:40–10:00 Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization Taesung Park
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
Facial Reenactment & Body Reenactment
10:25–10:35 Overview Justus Thies
10:35–11:00 Neural Rendering for High-Quality Synthesis of Human Portrait Video and Images Christian Theobalt
11:00–11:20 Neural Rendering for Virtual Avatars Aliaksandra Shysheya
Novel View Synthesis
11:20–11:35 Overview Vincent Sitzmann
11:30–11:50 Neural Rerendering in the Wild Moustafa Meshry
11:50–12:10 NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis Ben Mildenhall
12:10–13:20 Lunch Break
Learning to Relight
13:20–13:30 Overview Zexiang Xu
13:30–13:50 Multi-view Relighting Using a Geometry-Aware Network Julien Philip
13:50–14:10 Neural Inverse Rendering Abhimitra Meka
Free Viewpoint Videos
14:10–14:20 Overview Sean Fanello
14:20–14:40 Neural Rendering for Performance Capture Rohit K. Pandey
14:40–15:00 Neural Volumes: Learning Dynamic Renderable Volumes from Images Stephen Lombardi
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–15:45 Social Implications, Open Challenges, Conclusion Ohad Fried
15:45–16:15 Followup Discussion

Downloads

The tutorial is based on this Eurographics 2020 state-of-the-art report.

Organizing team

Ayush Tewari, Ohad Fried, Justus Thies, Vincent Sitzmann, Stephen Lombardi, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Matthias Nießner, Rohit K. Pandey, Sean Fanello, Gordon Wetzstein, Jun-Yan Zhu, Christian Theobalt, Maneesh Agrawala, Eli Shechtman, Dan B. Goldman, Michael Zollhöfer.

Location & time

June 15th, 2020, 9:00–16:30 PT.
CVPR 2020 is now a fully virtual conference.