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While Signed Distance Fields (SDF) are well-established for modeling watertight surfaces, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDF) broaden the scope to include open surfaces and models with complex inner structures. Despite their flexibility, UDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cheng Xu , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

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

In this paper, we develop a new method, termed SDF-3DGAN, for 3D object generation and 3D-Aware image synthesis tasks, which introduce implicit Signed Distance Function (SDF) as the 3D object representation method in the generative field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lutao Jiang , Ruyi Ji , Libo Zhang

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

This paper presents a novel post-processing methodology for extracting high-quality geometries from density-based topology optimization results. Current post-processing approaches often struggle to simultaneously achieve smooth boundaries,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ondřej Ježek , Ján Kopačka , Martin Isoz , Dušan Gabriel , Pavel Maršálek , Martin Šotola , Radim Halama

Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

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…

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 3D vehicles from noisy and sparse partial point clouds is of great significance to autonomous driving. Most existing 3D reconstruction methods cannot be directly applied to this problem because they are elaborately designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yibo Liu , Kelly Zhu , Guile Wu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu , Yang Liu , Jinjun Shan

We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

Differentiable physics is a powerful tool in computer vision and robotics for scene understanding and reasoning about interactions. Existing approaches have frequently been limited to objects with simple shape or shapes that are known in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Michael Strecke , Joerg Stueckler

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction from multi-view images is a core challenge in 3D vision. Recent studies have explored signed distance fields (SDF) within Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstructions. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Jiaze Li , Ying He

In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Akarshani Ramanayake , Nihal Kodikara

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bobo Lian , Zidong Wang , Dandan Wang , Chenjian Wu , Minxin Chen

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

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

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