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Abhishek Kar

20 accepted papers

2026

Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining

CVPR 2026

High-quality 3D avatar modeling faces a critical trade-off between fidelity and generalization. On the one hand, multi-view studio data enables high-fidelity modeling of humans with precise control over expressions and poses, but it struggles to generalize to real-world data due to limited scale and

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

While 3D Gaussian Splatting has recently become popular for neural rendering, current methods rely on carefully engineered cloning and splitting strategies for placing Gaussians, which does not always generalize and may lead to poor-quality renderings. For many real-world scenes this leads to their…

2024

Accelerating Neural Field Training via Soft Mining

CVPR 2024poster

We present an approach to accelerate Neural Field training by efficiently selecting sampling locations. While Neural Fields have recently become popular it is often trained by uniformly sampling the training domain or through handcrafted heuristics. We show that improved convergence and final traini…

2024

NeRFiller: Completing Scenes via Generative 3D Inpainting

CVPR 2024poster

We propose NeRFiller an approach that completes missing portions of a 3D capture via generative 3D inpainting using off-the-shelf 2D visual generative models. Often parts of a captured 3D scene or object are missing due to mesh reconstruction failures or a lack of observations (e.g. contact regions…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar
2024

Probing the 3D Awareness of Visual Foundation Models

CVPR 2024poster

Recent advances in large-scale pretraining have yielded visual foundation models with strong capabilities. Not only can recent models generalize to arbitrary images for their training task their intermediate representations are useful for other visual tasks such as detection and segmentation. Given…

2024

SHINOBI: Shape and Illumination using Neural Object Decomposition via BRDF Optimization In-the-wild

CVPR 2024poster

We present SHINOBI an end-to-end framework for the reconstruction of shape material and illumination from object images captured with varying lighting pose and background. Inverse rendering of an object based on unconstrained image collections is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and grap…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Unsupervised Keypoints from Pretrained Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024highlight

Unsupervised learning of keypoints and landmarks has seen significant progress with the help of modern neural network architectures but performance is yet to match the supervised counterpart making their practicability questionable. We leverage the emergent knowledge within text-to-image diffusion m…

2023

ASIC: Aligning Sparse in-the-wild Image Collections

ICCV 2023oral

We present a method for joint alignment of sparse in-the-wild image collections of an object category. Most prior works assume either ground-truth keypoint annotations or a large dataset of images of a single object category. However, neither of the above assumptions hold true for the long-tail of t…

Cited by 21PDFcodeScholar
2023

DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus

CVPR 2023poster

Smartphone cameras today are increasingly approaching the versatility and quality of professional cameras through a combination of hardware and software advancements. However, fixed aperture remains a key limitation, preventing users from controlling the depth of field (DoF) of captured images. At t…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

LU-NeRF: Scene and Pose Estimation by Synchronizing Local Unposed NeRFs

ICCV 2023poster

A critical obstacle preventing NeRF models from being deployed broadly in the wild is their reliance on accurate camera poses. Consequently, there is growing interest in extending NeRF models to jointly optimize camera poses and scene representation, which offers an alternative to off-the-shelf SfM…

Cited by 34PDFScholar
2023

The Surprising Effectiveness of Diffusion Models for Optical Flow and Monocular Depth Estimation

NeurIPS 2023oral

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly without task-specific architectures and loss functions that are predominant for these tas…

Cited by 96SourcePDFScholar
2023

Unsupervised Semantic Correspondence Using Stable Diffusion

NeurIPS 2023poster

Text-to-image diffusion models are now capable of generating images that are often indistinguishable from real images. To generate such images, these models must understand the semantics of the objects they are asked to generate. In this work we show that, without any training, one can leverage this…

2022

Learned Monocular Depth Priors in Visual-Inertial Initialization

ECCV 2022poster

"Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the pose estimation backbone for most AR/VR and autonomous robotic systems today, in both academia and industry. However, these systems are highly sensitive to the initialization of key parameters such as sensor biases, gravity direction, and metric scale. In pract…

2022

SAMURAI: Shape And Material from Unconstrained Real-world Arbitrary Image collections

NeurIPS 2022accept

Inverse rendering of an object under entirely unknown capture conditions is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Neural approaches such as NeRF have achieved photorealistic results on novel view synthesis, but they require known camera poses. Solving this problem with unknown cam…

Cited by 81SourcePDFScholar
2021

SLIDE: Single Image 3D Photography With Soft Layering and Depth-Aware Inpainting

ICCV 2021poster

Single image 3D photography enables viewers to view a still image from novel viewpoints. Recent approaches combine monocular depth networks with inpainting networks to achieve compelling results. A drawback of these techniques is the use of hard depth layering, making them unable to model intricate…

Cited by 51PDFcodeScholar
2019

Learning Independent Object Motion From Unlabelled Stereoscopic Videos

CVPR 2019poster

We present a system for learning motion maps of independently moving objects from stereo videos. The only annotations used in our system are 2D object bounding boxes which introduce the notion of objects in our system. Unlike prior learning based approaches which have focused on predicting dense opt…

Cited by 37PDFScholar
2015

Category-Specific Object Reconstruction From a Single Image

CVPR 2015poster

Object reconstruction from a single image -- in the wild -- is a problem where we can make progress and get meaningful results today. This is the main message of this paper, which introduces an automated pipeline with pixels as inputs and 3D surfaces of various rigid categories as outputs in images…

Cited by 421SourcePDFScholar