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Neural implicit surface representation methods have recently shown impressive 3D reconstruction results. However, existing solutions struggle to reconstruct driving scenes due to their large size, highly complex nature and their limited…

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Neural implicit shape representation has drawn significant attention in recent years due to its smoothness, differentiability, and topological flexibility. However, directly modeling the shape of a neural implicit surface, especially as the…

Accurate representations of 3D faces are of paramount importance in various computer vision and graphics applications. However, the challenges persist due to the limitations imposed by data discretization and model linearity, which hinder…

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Shadow art is a captivating form of sculptural expression where the projection of a sculpture in a specific direction reveals a desired shape with high precision. In this work, we introduce Neural Shadow Art, which leverages implicit…

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We introduce differentiable indirection -- a novel learned primitive that employs differentiable multi-scale lookup tables as an effective substitute for traditional compute and data operations across the graphics pipeline. We demonstrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sayantan Datta , Carl Marshall , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Embedding 3D morphable basis functions into deep neural networks opens great potential for models with better representation power. However, to faithfully learn those models from an image collection, it requires strong regularization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Luan Tran , Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Reconstructing detailed 3D scenes from single-view images remains a challenging task due to limitations in existing approaches, which primarily focus on geometric shape recovery, overlooking object appearances and fine shape details. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yixin Chen , Junfeng Ni , Nan Jiang , Yaowei Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Representing 3D surfaces as level sets of continuous functions over $\mathbb{R}^3$ is the common denominator of neural implicit representations, which recently enabled remarkable progress in geometric deep learning and computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Daniele Baieri , Stefano Esposito , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà

In this work, we present an automated workflow to bring human figures, one of the most frequently appearing entities on pictorial maps, to the third dimension. Our workflow is based on training data and neural networks for single-view 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Raimund Schnürer , A. Cengiz Öztireli , Magnus Heitzler , René Sieber , Lorenz Hurni

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

3D shape generation aims to produce innovative 3D content adhering to specific conditions and constraints. Existing methods often decompose 3D shapes into a sequence of localized components, treating each element in isolation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruikai Cui , Weizhe Liu , Weixuan Sun , Senbo Wang , Taizhang Shang , Yang Li , Xibin Song , Han Yan , Zhennan Wu , Shenzhou Chen , Hongdong Li , Pan Ji

Shape priors have long been known to be effective when reconstructing 3D shapes from noisy or incomplete data. When using a deep-learning based shape representation, this often involves learning a latent representation, which can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick M. Jensen , Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Anders B. Dahl , Pascal Fua , Vedrana A. Dahl

Recent history has seen a tremendous growth of work exploring implicit representations of geometry and radiance, popularized through Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Such works are fundamentally based on a (implicit) volumetric representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jason Y. Zhang , Gengshan Yang , Shubham Tulsiani , Deva Ramanan

We introduce CN-DHF (Compact Neural Double-Height-Field), a novel hybrid neural implicit 3D shape representation that is dramatically more compact than the current state of the art. Our representation leverages Double-Height-Field (DHF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Eric Hedlin , Jinfan Yang , Nicholas Vining , Kwang Moo Yi , Alla Sheffer

3D reconstruction from images has wide applications in Virtual Reality and Automatic Driving, where the precision requirement is very high. Ground-breaking research in the neural radiance field (NeRF) by utilizing Multi-Layer Perceptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jiaming Shen , Bolin Song , Zirui Wu , Yi Xu

Robust 3D representation learning forms the perceptual foundation of spatial intelligence, enabling downstream tasks in scene understanding and embodied AI. However, learning such representations directly from unposed multi-view images…

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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

Making generative models 3D-aware bridges the 2D image space and the 3D physical world yet remains challenging. Recent attempts equip a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), which maps 3D coordinates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yinghao Xu , Sida Peng , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

To reconstruct a 3D human surface from a single image, it is crucial to simultaneously consider human pose, shape, and clothing details. Recent approaches have combined parametric body models (such as SMPL), which capture body pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Baoxing Li , Yong Deng , Yehui Yang , Xu Zhao

Driven by the appealing properties of neural fields for storing and communicating 3D data, the problem of directly processing them to address tasks such as classification and part segmentation has emerged and has been investigated in recent…

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