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On Neural BRDFs: A Thorough Comparison of State-of-the-Art Approaches

24 February 2025
Florian Hofherr
Bjoern Haefner
Daniel Cremers
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Abstract

The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is an essential tool to capture the complex interaction of light and matter. Recently, several works have employed neural methods for BRDF modeling, following various strategies, ranging from utilizing existing parametric models to purely neural parametrizations. While all methods yield impressive results, a comprehensive comparison of the different approaches is missing in the literature. In this work, we present a thorough evaluation of several approaches, including results for qualitative and quantitative reconstruction quality and an analysis of reciprocity and energy conservation. Moreover, we propose two extensions that can be added to existing approaches: A novel additive combination strategy for neural BRDFs that split the reflectance into a diffuse and a specular part, and an input mapping that ensures reciprocity exactly by construction, while previous approaches only ensure it by soft constraints.

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@article{hofherr2025_2502.15480,
  title={ On Neural BRDFs: A Thorough Comparison of State-of-the-Art Approaches },
  author={ Florian Hofherr and Bjoern Haefner and Daniel Cremers },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15480},
  year={ 2025 }
}
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