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Learning 3D shape representation with dense correspondence for deformable objects is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Existing approaches often need additional annotations of specific semantic domain, e.g., skeleton poses for human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Baowen Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaoming Deng , Yinda Zhang , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

In this work, we propose a novel approach to represent robot geometry as distance fields (RDF) that extends the principle of signed distance fields (SDFs) to articulated kinematic chains. Our method employs a combination of Bernstein…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiming Li , Yan Zhang , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muzammal Shafique , Nasir Rahim , Jamil Ahmad , Mohammad Siadat , Khalid Malik , Ghaus Malik

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have driven impressive progress in view synthesis by using ray-traced volumetric rendering. Splatting-based methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provide faster rendering by rasterizing 3D primitives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Antonella Rech , Nicola Conci , Nicola Garau

We introduce Multiresolution Deep Implicit Functions (MDIF), a hierarchical representation that can recover fine geometry detail, while being able to perform global operations such as shape completion. Our model represents a complex 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zhang Chen , Yinda Zhang , Kyle Genova , Sean Fanello , Sofien Bouaziz , Christian Haene , Ruofei Du , Cem Keskin , Thomas Funkhouser , Danhang Tang

Accurate mapping and localization are very important for many industrial robotics applications. In this paper, we propose an improved Signed Distance Function (SDF) for both 2D SLAM and pure localization to improve the accuracy of mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xingyin Fu , Zheng Fang , Xizhen Xiao , Yijia He , Xiao Liu

Learning structures of 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in the field of computer graphics and geometry processing. We present a simple yet interpretable unsupervised method for learning a new structural representation in the form of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Nenglun Chen , Lingjie Liu , Zhiming Cui , Runnan Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

As the most common representation for 3D shapes, mesh is often stored discretely with arrays of vertices and faces. However, 3D shapes in the real world are presented continuously. In this paper, we propose to learn a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhongpai Gao

We present implicit displacement fields, a novel representation for detailed 3D geometry. Inspired by a classic surface deformation technique, displacement mapping, our method represents a complex surface as a smooth base surface plus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Wang Yifan , Lukas Rahmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Recent techniques have been successful in reconstructing surfaces as level sets of learned functions (such as signed distance fields) parameterized by deep neural networks. Many of these methods, however, learn only closed surfaces and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 David Palmer , Dmitriy Smirnov , Stephanie Wang , Albert Chern , Justin Solomon

Accurate and efficient environment representation is crucial for robotic applications such as motion planning, manipulation, and navigation. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have emerged as a powerful representation for encoding distance to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhirui Dai , Tianxing Fan , Mani Amani , Jaemin Seo , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Hyondong Oh , Nikolay Atanasov

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

Inferring signed distance functions (SDFs) from sparse point clouds remains a challenge in surface reconstruction. The key lies in the lack of detailed geometric information in sparse point clouds, which is essential for learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Takeshi Noda , Chao Chen , Junsheng Zhou , Weiqi Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

3D point cloud anomaly detection is essential for robust vision systems but is challenged by pose variations and complex geometric anomalies. Existing patch-based methods often suffer from geometric fidelity issues due to discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Bozhong Zheng , Jinye Gan , Xiaohao Xu , Xintao Chen , Wenqiao Li , Xiaonan Huang , Na Ni , Yingna Wu

State-of-the-art neural implicit surface representations have achieved impressive results in indoor scene reconstruction by incorporating monocular geometric priors as additional supervision. However, we have observed that multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ziyi Chen , Xiaolong Wu , Yu Zhang

In recent years, the neural implicit surface has emerged as a powerful representation for multi-view surface reconstruction due to its simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. However, reconstructing smooth and detailed surfaces in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuting Xiao , Jingwei Xu , Zehao Yu , Shenghua Gao

Reconstructing hand-held objects from a single RGB image is an important and challenging problem. Existing works utilizing Signed Distance Fields (SDF) reveal limitations in comprehensively capturing the complex hand-object interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenyangguang Zhang , Yan Di , Ruida Zhang , Guangyao Zhai , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Xiangyang Ji

Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

We propose a novel variational method to compute a highly accurate global signed distance function (SDF) to a given point cloud. To this end, the jump set of the gradient of the SDF, which coincides with the medial axis of the surface, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Samuel Weidemaier , Christoph Norden-Smoch , Martin Rumpf