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About this paper

Kang Du, Duotun Wang, Wanling Li, Yirui Guan, Zeyu Wang

MVID presents a feed-forward framework for multi-view intrinsic image decomposition, disentangling sparse overlapping views into consistent albedo, diffuse shading, and non-diffuse residuals. The method achieves state-of-the-art per-frame decomposition quality (e.g., 24.72 PSNR for albedo on Hypersim) and superior cross-view consistency (e.g., 26.68 A-CV PSNR on Hypersim), enabling practical applications like consistent illumination editing and specularity removal.

Key insights

  • Leveraging a shared multi-view scene representation, implicitly capturing geometry and appearance, is effective for promoting cross-view consistency in intrinsic image decomposition.
  • A dedicated factor query adapter mechanism is crucial for disentangling intrinsic factors by enabling factor-specific information extraction from a shared context, minimizing leakage between albedo, shading, and residual.
  • Combining synthetic supervision with self-supervised RGB reconstruction on unlabeled real-world multi-view data allows feed-forward models to generalize robustly to 'in-the-wild' intrinsic decomposition.

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