{"id":251,"date":"2025-11-12T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshroh.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/?p=251"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:27:35","slug":"baptiste-brument-thesis-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshroom.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/baptiste-brument-thesis-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptiste Brument Thesis Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to announce the <strong>PhD defense<\/strong> of a thesis dedicated to improving the <strong>robustness and accuracy of 3D reconstruction methods<\/strong> by integrating <strong>explicit models<\/strong> and leveraging <strong>physical (reflectance, shading, refraction)<\/strong> and <strong>geometric (gradients, silhouettes)<\/strong> properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than proposing entirely new approaches, this research enhances existing <strong>geometric<\/strong> and <strong>differentiable rendering frameworks<\/strong>, extending their applicability to challenging scenes and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work introduces four main contributions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>MVS with image gradients<\/strong> \u2013 improving surface normal estimation and matching precision.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3D reconstruction in refractive media<\/strong> \u2013 modeling refraction explicitly for multi-view stereo (RMVS).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shading-based surface reconstruction (SfS-NeuS)<\/strong> \u2013 resolving ambiguities on weakly textured surfaces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Photometric prior re-parametrization (RNb-NeuS)<\/strong> \u2013 robustly fusing normal and reflectance data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"1003\" src=\"http:\/\/meshroh.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/These_baptiste_brument.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/These_baptiste_brument.png 868w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/These_baptiste_brument-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/These_baptiste_brument-768x887.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-1536x979.png 1536w, https:\/\/meshroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-Baptiste-light-2048x1306.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This thesis advances the pursuit of <strong>high-fidelity geometry reconstruction<\/strong> in complex and previously unresolved imaging scenarios.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bbrument.github.io\">https:\/\/bbrument.github.io<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the PhD defense of a thesis dedicated to improving the robustness and accuracy of 3D reconstruction methods by integrating explicit models and leveraging physical (reflectance, shading, refraction) and geometric (gradients, silhouettes) properties. 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