IRON
Inverse rendering by optimizing neural SDF and materials from photometric images
Install / Use
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IRON: Inverse Rendering by Optimizing Neural SDFs and Materials from Photometric Images
Note: this repo is still under construction.
Project page: https://kai-46.github.io/IRON-website/

Usage
Create environment
git clone https://github.com/Kai-46/iron.git && cd iron && . ./create_env.sh
Download data
. ./download_data.sh
Training and testing
. ./train_scene.sh drv/dragon
Once training is done, you will see the recovered mesh and materials under the folder ./exp_iron_stage2/drv/dragon/mesh_and_materials_50000/. At the same time, the rendered test images are under the folder ./exp_iron_stage2/drv/dragon/render_test_50000/
Relight the 3D assets using envmaps
Check test_mitsuba/render_rgb_envmap_mat.py.
Evaluation
Check evaluation/eval_mesh.py and evaluation/eval_image_folder.py.
Render synthetic data using Mitsuba
Check render_synthetic_data/render_rgb_flash_mat.py. To make renderings more shiny, try scaling up the specular albedo and scaling down the specular roughness; to make renderings more diffuse, try the opposite.
Camera parameters convention
We use the OpenCV camera convention just like NeRF++; you might want to use the camera visualization and debugging tools in that codebase to inspect if there's any issue with the camera parameters. Note we also assume the objects are inside the unit sphere.
Citations
@inproceedings{iron-2022,
title={IRON: Inverse Rendering by Optimizing Neural SDFs and Materials from Photometric Images},
author={Zhang, Kai and Luan, Fujun and Li, Zhengqi and Snavely, Noah},
booktitle={IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recog.},
year={2022}
}
Example results

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the authors of IDR and NeuS for open-sourcing their projects.
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