Fast and Physically-based Neural Explicit Surface for Relightable Human Avatars

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18408v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:31:15 GMT
• Title: Fast and Physically-based Neural Explicit Surface for Relightable Human Avatars
• Authors: Jiacheng Wu, Ruiqi Zhang, Jie Chen, Hui Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Current methods use neural implicit representations to capture dynamic geometry and reflectance, which incur high costs due to the need for dense sampling in volume rendering.<n>We introduce Physically-based Neural Explicit Surface (PhyNES), which employs compact neural material maps based on the Explicit Surface representation.<n>PhyNES organizes human models in a compact 2D space, enhancing material disentanglement efficiency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Efficiently modeling relightable human avatars from sparse-view videos is crucial for AR/VR applications. Current methods use neural implicit representations to capture dynamic geometry and reflectance, which incur high costs due to the need for dense sampling in volume rendering. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Physically-based Neural Explicit Surface (PhyNES), which employs compact neural material maps based on the Neural Explicit Surface (NES) representation. PhyNES organizes human models in a compact 2D space, enhancing material disentanglement efficiency. By connecting Signed Distance Fields to explicit surfaces, PhyNES enables efficient geometry inference around a parameterized human shape model. This approach models dynamic geometry, texture, and material maps as 2D neural representations, enabling efficient rasterization. PhyNES effectively captures physical surface attributes under varying illumination, enabling real-time physically-based rendering. Experiments show that PhyNES achieves relighting quality comparable to SOTA methods while significantly improving rendering speed, memory efficiency, and reconstruction quality.

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