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We address the problem of reconstructing 3D surfaces from depth and surface normal maps acquired by a sensor system based on a single perspective camera. Depth and normal maps can be obtained through techniques such as structured-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ondrej Hlinka , Georg Kaniak , Christian Kapeller

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of common indoor scenes is crucial for VR and AR applications. 3D Gaussian splatting, a novel differentiable rendering technique, has achieved state-of-the-art novel view synthesis results with high rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Iaroslav Melekhov , Otto Seiskari , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

We present our work on scalable, GPU-accelerated algorithms for diffeomorphic image registration. The associated software package is termed CLAIRE. Image registration is a non-linear inverse problem. It is about computing a spatial mapping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Andreas Mang

Novel view synthesis and 3D modeling using implicit neural field representation are shown to be very effective for calibrated multi-view cameras. Such representations are known to benefit from additional geometric and semantic supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

The advent of high resolution imaging has made data on surface shape widespread. Methods for the analysis of shape based on landmarks are well established but high resolution data require a functional approach. The starting point is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Stanislav Katina , Liberty Vittert , Adrian W. Bowman

Orienting surface normals correctly and consistently is a fundamental problem in geometry processing. Applications such as visualization, feature detection, and geometry reconstruction often rely on the availability of correctly oriented…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Sebastian Ochmann , Reinhard Klein

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

We present a novel method to perform numerical integration over curved polyhedra enclosed by high-order parametric surfaces. Such a polyhedron is first decomposed into a set of triangular and/or rectangular pyramids, whose certain faces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Pablo Antolin , Xiaodong Wei , Annalisa Buffa

Poisson surface reconstruction (PSR) remains a popular technique for reconstructing watertight surfaces from 3D point samples thanks to its efficiency, simplicity, and robustness. Yet, the existing PSR method and subsequent variants work…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Fei Hou , Chiyu Wang , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Chen Qian , Ying He

We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 J. Balzer , S. Soatto

Experimentally-measured pressure fields play an important role in understanding many fluid dynamics problems. Unfortunately, pressure fields are difficult to measure directly with non-invasive, spatially resolved diagnostics, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Fernando Zigunov , John Charonko

We present a new approach for nonlocal image denoising, based around the application of an unnormalized extended Gaussian ANOVA kernel within a bilevel optimization algorithm. A critical bottleneck when solving such problems for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , John W. Pearson , Benjamin D. Goddard

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting has been widely studied because of its realistic and efficient novel-view synthesis, it is still challenging to extract a high-quality surface from the point-based representation. Previous works improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hanlin Chen , Fangyin Wei , Chen Li , Tianxin Huang , Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Despite the growing demand for accurate surface normal estimation models, existing methods use general-purpose dense prediction models, adopting the same inductive biases as other tasks. In this paper, we discuss the inductive biases needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Gwangbin Bae , Andrew J. Davison

We compare two approaches to compute a portion of the spectrum of dense symmetric definite generalized eigenproblems: one is based on the reduction to tridiagonal form, and the other on the Krylov-subspace iteration. Two large-scale…

We present a novel methodology for the numerical solution of problems of diffraction by infinitely thin screens in three dimensional space. Our approach relies on new integral formulations as well as associated high-order quadrature rules.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Oscar P. Bruno , Stephane K. Lintner

Efficient simulation of nonlinear and dispersive free-surface flows governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations remains a central challenge in ocean and coastal engineering. The computational bottleneck arises from solving a…

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci