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Accurate meshing from monocular images remains a key challenge in 3D vision. While state-of-the-art 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods excel at synthesizing photorealistic novel views through rasterization-based rendering, their reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Zeyu Chen , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Recent advances in computer graphics and computer vision have found successful application of deep neural network models for 3D shapes based on signed distance functions (SDFs) that are useful for shape representation, retrieval, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oladapo Afolabi , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and computer graphics. SDF-based methods excel at reconstructing smooth meshes with minimal error and artefacts but struggle with representing open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

We present iSDF, a continual learning system for real-time signed distance field (SDF) reconstruction. Given a stream of posed depth images from a moving camera, it trains a randomly initialised neural network to map input 3D coordinate to…

3D decomposition/segmentation still remains a challenge as large-scale 3D annotated data is not readily available. Contemporary approaches typically leverage 2D machine-generated segments, integrating them for 3D consistency. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tianhao Wu , Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Qianyi Wu

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yuanzhan Li , Yuqi Liu , Yujie Lu , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai , Yanting Zhang

The medial axis, a lower-dimensional descriptor that captures the extrinsic structure of a shape, plays an important role in digital geometry processing. Despite its importance, computing the medial axis transform robustly from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Jun Luo , Shiqing Xin , Fei Hou , Hanqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Ying He

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

We present a novel 3D shape completion framework that unifies multimodal conditioning, leveraging both 2D images and 3D partial scans through a latent diffusion model. Shapes are represented as Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Simon Schaefer , Juan D. Galvis , Xingxing Zuo , Stefan Leutengger

Recent work achieved impressive progress towards joint reconstruction of hands and manipulated objects from monocular color images. Existing methods focus on two alternative representations in terms of either parametric meshes or signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zerui Chen , Yana Hasson , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Computer graphics, 3D computer vision and robotics communities have produced multiple approaches to representing 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. These provide trade-offs across fidelity, efficiency and compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jeong Joon Park , Peter Florence , Julian Straub , Richard Newcombe , Steven Lovegrove

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Extracting meshes that exactly match the zero-level set of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) remains challenging. Sampling-based methods introduce discretization error, while continuous piecewise affine (CPWA) analytic approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Seonghun Oh , Youngjung Uh , Jin-Hwa Kim

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains a challenge. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offer powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Minje Kim , Younghyun Noh , Jaesoon Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

In many applications, maintaining a consistent dense map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher level decision making. Several works have addressed the challenge of creating precise dense 3D maps from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Alexander Millane , Zachary Taylor , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

Digital twins are fundamental to the development of autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence. However, achieving high-granularity surface reconstruction and high-fidelity rendering remains a challenge. Gaussian splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jianheng Liu , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Chunran Zheng , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang

To achieve fully autonomous navigation, vehicles need to compute an accurate model of their direct surrounding. In this paper, a 3D surface reconstruction algorithm from heterogeneous density 3D data is presented. The proposed method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Luis Roldão , Raoul de Charette , Anne Verroust-Blondet