ResearchResearch paperImage, Video & 3D Generation · Computer Vision1 source · Oct 14, 2026

MicroSDF: Microfacet-Driven Hybrid Neural SDFs for Mixed-Reflectance Surface Reconstruction

To bridge this gap, we propose MicroSDF, a novel neural implicit framework that facilitates geometry and reflectance modeling through microfacet theory.

Key points

  • Accurate 3D reconstruction in real-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the coexistence of reflective and non-reflective surfaces, which pose distinct modeling demands.
  • Existing methods often treat these surface types separately, limiting their generalizability and physical plausibility.
  • Combined with a tailored multi-stage optimization scheme, the proposed MicroSDF achieves robust and high-fidelity reconstruction across reflective and non-reflective surfaces.
  • Extensive experiments on DTU, Shiny Blender, Ref-NeRF, and DeepVoxels datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, establishing a new direction for physically grounded neural reconstruction.

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  • [1]MicroSDF: Microfacet-Driven Hybrid Neural SDFs for Mixed-Reflectance Surface Reconstruction
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 14, 07:05 AM
    To bridge this gap, we propose MicroSDF, a novel neural implicit framework that facilitates geometry and reflectance modeling through microfacet theory.
    Accurate 3D reconstruction in real-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the coexistence of reflective and non-reflective surfaces, which pose distinct modeling demands.

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