1st Workshop on Neural Fields Beyond Conventional Cameras

in conjunction with ECCV 2024, Milan, Italy.

Date: 09/30 (AM)
Location: Panorama Lounge

Motivation 💡

Neural fields have been widely adopted for learning novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction from RGB images by modelling transport of light in the visible spectrum. This workshop focuses on neural fields beyond conventional cameras, including (1) learning neural fields from data from different sensors across the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond, such as lidar, cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), thermal, event cameras, acoustic, and more, and (2) modelling associated physics-based differentiable forward models and/or the physics of more complex light transport (reflections, shadows, polarization, diffraction limits, optics, scattering in fog or water, etc.). Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of researchers using neural fields across sensor domains to foster learning and discussion in this growing area.

Schedule ⏰

9:00 - 9:05 Welcome & Introduction
9:05 - 9:30 Keynote: Daniel Cremers
9:30 - 9:55 Keynote: David Lindell
9:55 - 10:05 Paper Spotlight: CryoFormers (Xinhang Liu)
10:05 - 10:15 Paper Spotlight: Radar Fields (David Borts)
10:15 - 10:25 Paper Spotlight: Beyond Ultra-NeRF (Magdalena Wysocki)
10:25 - 11:10 Poster Session & Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:35 Keynote: Jon Barron
11:35 - 12:00 Keynote: Carl Vondrick
12:00 - 12:25 Keynote: Tali Treibitz
12:25 - 1:00 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Or Litany
Panelists: David Lindell, Jon Barron, Tali Treibitz

Keynote Speakers 🧑‍🏫

David Lindell

University of Toronto

David Lindell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and founding member of the Toronto Computational Imaging Group. His work is at the intersection of machine learning, computational imaging, and computer vision. Along these lines he has worked on next-generation computational imaging systems for imaging around corners and through scattering media, and new machine learning algorithms for representing and processing signals. His work is relevant to a broad range of applications in computer graphics, vision, and remote sensing.

Daniel Cremers

TU Munich

Daniel Cremers is a Professor at Technical University of Munich where he holds the Chair of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. His publications received several awards, including the 'Best Paper of the Year 2003' (Int. Pattern Recognition Society), the 'Olympus Award 2004' (now called 'German Pattern Recognition Award') and the '2005 UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research'. For pioneering research he received a Starting Grant (2009), two Proof of Concept Grants (2014 \& 2018), a Consolidator Grant (2015) and an Advanced Grant (2020) by the European Research Council. In December 2010 he was listed among "Germany's top 40 researchers below 40" (Capital). On March 1st 2016, Prof. Cremers received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, the biggest award in German academia. In 2022 and 2023, he was listed among the top 10 most influential scholars in robotics of the last decade. He serves as co-founder, advisor and business angel to several startups.

Jon Barron

Google

Jon Barron is a senior staff research scientist at Google Research, where he works on computer vision and machine learning. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013, where he was advised by Jitendra Malik, and he received a Honours BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2007. He received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2009, the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award in 2013, and the PAMI Young Researcher Award in 2020. His works have received awards at ECCV 2016, TPAMI 2016, ECCV 2020, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2022, the 2022 Communications of the ACM, and ICLR 2023.

Tali Treibitz

University of Haifa

Tali Treibitz is heading the Viseaon marine imaging lab in the School of Marine Sciences in the University of Haifa since 2014. She received her PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 2010. Between 2010-2013 she was a post-doctoral researcher in the department of computer science and engineering, in the University of California, San Diego and in the Marine Physical Lab in Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her lab focuses on cutting edge research in underwater computer vision, scene, color and 3D reconstruction, automatic analysis of scenes, and autonomous decision making based on visual input.

Carl Vondrick

Columbia University

Carl Vondrick is an Associate professor of computer science at Columbia University. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning. By training machines to observe and interact with their surroundings, his group aims to create robust and versatile models for perception. They often develop visual models that capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled data and transfer across tasks and modalities. Other interests include sound and language, interpretable models and high-level reasoning. Recent work includes 3D reconstruction from shadows and thermal reflections.

Accepted papers 🧑‍🤝

  • (Spotlight✨) CryoFormer: Continuous Heterogeneous Cryo-EM Reconstruction using Transformer-based Neural Representations

    Xinhang Liu, Yan Zeng, Yifan Qin, Hao Li, Jiakai Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu


  • (Spotlight✨) Radar Fields: Frequency-Space Neural Scene Representations for FMCW Radar

    David Borts, Erich Liang, Tim Brödermann, Andrea Ramazzina, Stefanie Walz, Edoardo Palladin, Jipeng Sun, David Brüggemann, Christos Sakaridis, Luc Van Gool, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide


  • (Spotlight✨) Beyond Ultra-NeRF: Explainable Neural Fields for Ultrasound

    Magdalena Wysocki, Mohammad Farid Azampour, Felix Tristram, Benjamin Busam, Nassir Navab


  • Gated Fields: Learning Scene Reconstruction from Gated Videos

    Andrea Ramazzina, Stefanie Walz, Pragyan Dahal, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide


  • Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

    Anagh Malik, Noah Juravsky, Ryan Po, Gordon Wetzstein, Kyros Kutulakos, David B. Lindell


  • Flash-Splat: 3D Reflection Removal with Flash Cues and Gaussian Splats

    Mingyang Xie, Haoming Cai, Sachin Shah, Yiran Xu, Brandon Y. Feng, Jia-Bin Huang, Christopher Metzler


  • Flowed Time of Flight Radiance Fields

    Mikhail Okunev, Marc Mapeke, Benjamin Attal, Christian Richardt, Matthew O'Toole, James Tompkin


  • What You Can Reconstruct from a Shadow

    Ruoshi Liu, Sachit Menon, Chengzhi Mao, Dennis Park, Simon Stent, Carl Vondrick


  • Humans as Light Bulbs: 3D Human Reconstruction from Thermal Reflection

    Ruoshi Liu, Carl Vondrick


  • AONeus: A neural rendering framework for acoustic-optical sensor fusion

    Mohamad Qadri, Kevin Zhang, Akshay Hinduja, Michael Kaess, Adithya Pediredla, Christopher Metzler


  • Flash Cache: Reducing Bias in Radiance Cache Based Inverse Rendering

    Benjamin Attal, Dor Verbin, Ben Mildenhall, Peter Hedman, Jonathan T. Barron, Matthew O'Toole, Pratul P. Srinivasan


  • Shape from Heat Conduction

    Sriram Narayanan, Mani Ramanagopal, Mark Sheinin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Srinivasa Narasimhan


  • EaDeblur-GS: Event assisted 3D Deblur Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting

    YuchenWeng, Zhengwen Shen, Ruofan Chen, Qi Wang, Shaoze You, Jun Wang


  • Progressive Optimization of Camera Pose and 4D Radiance Fields for long Endoscopic Videos

    Florian Philipp Stilz, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Felix Tristram, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Alexander Ladikos


  • ArCSEM: Artistic Colorization of SEM Images via Gaussian Splatting

    Takuma Nishimura, Andreea Dogaru, Martin Oeggerli, Bernhard Egger


  • Exploring Multi-modal Neural Scene Representations With Applications on Thermal Imaging

    Mert Özer, Maximilian Weiherer, Martin Hundhausen, Bernhard Egger


  • ThermoNeRF: Multimodal Neural Radiance Fields for Thermal Novel View Synthesis

    Mariam Hassan, Florent Forest, Olga Fink, Malcolm Mielle


  • Fisheye-GS: Lightweight and Extensible Gaussian Splatting Module for Fisheye Cameras

    Zimu Liao, Siyan Chen, furong, Yi Wang, Suzhongling, Hao Luo, Linning Xu, Bo Dai, Hengjie Li, PeiZhilin, Xingcheng ZHANG


  • Investigating Density Modelling with Neural Fields for Inverting Gravity Surveys

    Daniel Wedge


  • TurboSL: Dense, Accurate and Fast 3D by Neural Inverse Structured Light

    Parsa Mirdehghan, Maxx Wu, Wenzheng Chen, David B. Lindell, Kyros Kutulakos


  • Neural Implicit Representations for 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

    NITHIN Sugavanam, Emre Ertin



  • Imaging Interiors: An Implicit Solution to Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems

    Ziyuan Luo, Boxin Shi, Haoliang Li, Renjie Wan


  • Poster Format: Portrait (vertical) format, with a maximum size of 90x180 cm.