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Surface extraction from implicit neural representations modelling a single class surface is a well-known task. However, there exist no surface extraction methods from an implicit representation of multiple classes that guarantee topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jash Vira , Andrew Myers , Simon Ratcliffe

We introduce a novel learning-based method for encoding and manipulating 3D surface meshes. Our method is specifically designed to create an interpretable embedding space for deformable shape collections. Unlike previous 3D mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sara Hahner , Souhaib Attaiki , Jochen Garcke , Maks Ovsjanikov

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied for nowadays 3D surface reconstruction tasks and such methods can be further divided into two categories, which respectively warp templates explicitly by moving vertices or represent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

We present a new pipeline for holistic 3D scene understanding from a single image, which could predict object shapes, object poses, and scene layout. As it is a highly ill-posed problem, existing methods usually suffer from inaccurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Cheng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys , Shuaicheng Liu

Precise representations of 3D faces are beneficial to various computer vision and graphics applications. Due to the data discretization and model linearity, however, it remains challenging to capture accurate identity and expression clues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Mingwu Zheng , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Liming Chen

3D object recognition accuracy can be improved by learning the multi-scale spatial features from 3D spatial geometric representations of objects such as point clouds, 3D models, surfaces, and RGB-D data. Current deep learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Sambit Ghadai , Xian Lee , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy

Recently introduced implicit field representations offer an effective way of generating 3D object shapes. They leverage implicit decoder trained to take a 3D point coordinate concatenated with a shape encoding and to output a value which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Magdalena Proszewska , Marcin Mazur , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

In recent years, neural implicit representations have made remarkable progress in modeling of 3D shapes with arbitrary topology. In this work, we address two key limitations of such representations, in failing to capture local 3D geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Hakan Bilen , Matthias Nießner , Efstratios Gavves

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

Deep implicit functions (DIFs), as a kind of 3D shape representation, are becoming more and more popular in the 3D vision community due to their compactness and strong representation power. However, unlike polygon mesh-based templates, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zerong Zheng , Tao Yu , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

We investigate the problem of learning to generate 3D parametric surface representations for novel object instances, as seen from one or more views. Previous work on learning shape reconstruction from multiple views uses discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jiahui Lei , Srinath Sridhar , Paul Guerrero , Minhyuk Sung , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of 3D keypoint estimation of general objects using a novel implicit representation. Previous works have demonstrated promising results for keypoint prediction through direct coordinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xiangyu Zhu , Dong Du , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Xiaoguang Han

Point set is a flexible and lightweight representation widely used for 3D deep learning. However, their discrete nature prevents them from representing continuous and fine geometry, posing a major issue for learning-based shape generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shi-Lin Liu , Hao-Xiang Guo , Hao Pan , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Triangulated meshes have become ubiquitous discrete-surface representations. In this paper we address the problem of how to maintain the manifold properties of a surface while it undergoes strong deformations that may cause topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andrei Zaharescu , Edmond Boyer , Radu Horaud

Generative models that produce point clouds have emerged as a powerful tool to represent 3D surfaces, and the best current ones rely on learning an ensemble of parametric representations. Unfortunately, they offer no control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jan Bednarik , Shaifali Parashar , Erhan Gundogdu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Deep learning models develop successive representations of their input in sequential layers, the last of which maps the final representation to the output. Here we investigate the informational content of these representations by observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Benjamin L. Badger

Recent advances in localized implicit functions have enabled neural implicit representation to be scalable to large scenes. However, the regular subdivision of 3D space employed by these approaches fails to take into account the sparsity of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jia-Heng Tang , Weikai Chen , Jie Yang , Bo Wang , Songrun Liu , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guangyan Cai , Kai Yan , Zhao Dong , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Shuang Zhao