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Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss

Zhang, Ziyi  
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Roussel, Nicolas  
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Müller, Thomas
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August 2025
Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference
SIGGRAPH 2025

We present a fast and simple technique to convert images into a radiance surface-based scene representation. Building on existing radiance volume reconstruction algorithms, we introduce a subtle yet impactful modification of the loss function requiring changes to only a few lines of code: instead of integrating the radiance field along rays and supervising the resulting images, we project the training images into the scene to directly supervise the spatio-directional radiance field. The primary outcome of this change is the complete removal of alpha blending and ray marching from the image formation model, instead moving these steps into the loss computation. In addition to promoting convergence to surfaces, this formulation assigns explicit semantic meaning to 2D subsets of the radiance field, turning them into well-defined radiance surfaces. We finally extract a level set from this representation, which results in a high-quality radiance surface model. Our method retains much of the speed and quality of the baseline algorithm. For instance, a suitably modified variant of Instant NGP maintains comparable computational efficiency, while achieving an average PSNR that is only 0.1 dB lower. Most importantly, our method generates explicit surfaces in place of an exponential volume, doing so with a level of simplicity not seen in prior work.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3721238.3730713
Author(s)
Zhang, Ziyi  

EPFL

Roussel, Nicolas  

EPFL

Müller, Thomas
Zeltner, Tizian  
Rousselle, Fabrice  
Nimier-David, Merlin  
Jakob, Wenzel  

EPFL

Date Issued

2025-08

Publisher

ACM

Published in
Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-1540-2/2025/08

Note

In conference proceedings: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '25), August 10--14, 2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
SIGGRAPH 2025

Vancouver, BC, Canada

2025-08-10 - 2025-08-14

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April 29, 2025
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