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We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

We develop and test high-order methods for integration on surface point clouds. The task of integrating a function on a surface arises in a range of applications in engineering and the sciences, particularly those involving various integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Daniel R. Venn , Steven J. Ruuth

Implicit neural representations map a shape-specific latent code and a 3D coordinate to its corresponding signed distance (SDF) value. However, this approach only offers a single level of detail. Emulating low levels of detail can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Benoit Guillard , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt , Pascal Fua

We present an isogeometric analysis technique that builds on manifold-based smooth basis functions for geometric modelling and analysis. Manifold-based surface construction techniques are well known in geometric modelling and a number of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Musabbir Majeed , Fehmi Cirak

Neural implicit representations, which encode a surface as the level set of a neural network applied to spatial coordinates, have proven to be remarkably effective for optimizing, compressing, and generating 3D geometry. Although these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

Reconstructing open surfaces from multi-view images is vital in digitalizing complex objects in daily life. A widely used strategy is to learn unsigned distance functions (UDFs) by checking if their appearance conforms to the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Scene and object reconstruction is an important problem in robotics, in particular in planning collision-free trajectories or in object manipulation. This paper compares two strategies for the reconstruction of nonvisible parts of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Rafał Staszak , Piotr Michałek , Jakub Chudziński , Marek Kopicki , Dominik Belter

We introduce an implicit representation of continuous, bijective, orientation-preserving maps between genus zero surfaces with or without boundary. The distortion of these maps can easily be minimized by optimizing the Ginzburg-Landau…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Etienne Corman , Yousuf Soliman , Robin Magnet , Mark Gillespie

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

This contribution presents a new analysis of properties of the interpolation using Radial Bases Functions (RBF) related to large data sets interpolation. The RBF application is convenient method for scattered d-dimensional interpolation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Vaclav Skala

This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction has emerged as a popular paradigm for multi-view 3D reconstruction. Unlike traditional multi-view stereo approaches, the neural implicit surface-based methods leverage neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qianyi Wu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Kejie Li , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

Low-rank approximations are popular methods to reduce the high computational cost of algorithms involving large-scale kernel matrices. The success of low-rank methods hinges on the matrix rank of the kernel matrix, and in practice, these…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ruoxi Wang , Yingzhou Li , Eric Darve

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end relightable neural inverse rendering system that achieves high-quality reconstruction of geometry and material properties, thus enabling high-quality relighting. The cornerstone of our method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Deheng Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Sergey Prokudin , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Siyu Tang

Neural fields, coordinate-based neural networks, have recently gained popularity for implicitly representing a scene. In contrast to classical methods that are based on explicit representations such as point clouds, neural fields provide a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Stephen Hausler , David Hall , Sutharsan Mahendren , Peyman Moghadam

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

We introduce a continuous domain framework for the recovery of points on a surface in high dimensional space, represented as the zero-level set of a bandlimited function. We show that the exponential maps of the points on the surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sunrita Poddar , Mathews Jacob

We present Zero-NeRF, a projective surface registration method that, to the best of our knowledge, offers the first general solution capable of alignment between scene representations with minimal or zero visual correspondence. To do this,…

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