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Finally, our methods enable high-quality facial appearance reconstruction from sparse captures. We fit parameters of standard production rendering models, producing realistic results without neural rendering. 5/n

Additionally, many real-world materials, e.g., skin, exhibit translucent appearance. We therefore also introduce an efficient differentiable rendering algorithm to recover textured, path-traced subsurface scattering parameters. 4/n

Our solution, Laplacian mipmapping, is a preconditioner combining differentiable mipmapping with a Laplacian pyramid. The benefits? Robust texture recovery while being computationally efficient, resolution-independent, and requiring minimal hyperparameter tuning. 3/n

Why is this challenging? Inverse rendering often suffers from scale mismatches, rendering noise and local minima. This prevents reliable recovery of textures, e.g., using standard Adam. In contrast, our approach achieves a more uniform and robust convergence. 2/n