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Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

We present Geodesic Semantic Search (GSS), a retrieval system that learns node-specific Riemannian metrics on citation graphs to enable geometry-aware semantic search. Unlike standard embedding-based retrieval that relies on fixed Euclidean…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Brandon Yee , Lucas Wang , Kundana Kommini

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein

This work further improves the pseudo-transient approach for the Poisson Boltzmann equation (PBE) in the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. The numerical solution of the nonlinear PBE is known to involve many difficulties,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Benjamin Jones , Sheik Ahmed Ullah , Siwen Wang , Shan Zhao

We introduce a novel approach for object segmentation from 3D images using modified minimal path Eikonal equation. The proposed method utilizes an implicit constraint - a second order correction to the inhomogeneous minimal path Eikonal -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jozsef Molnar , Peter Horvath

The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth surfaces, using a closest point representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 A. Petras , L. Ling , C. Piret , S. J. Ruuth

Generating high-fidelity 3D contents remains a fundamental challenge due to the complexity of representing arbitrary topologies-such as open surfaces and intricate internal structures-while preserving geometric details. Prevailing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xinran Yang , Shuichang Lai , Jiangjing Lyu , Hongjie Li , Bowen Pan , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Zhengkang Zhou , Yanwen Guo

Poisson Surface Reconstruction is a widely-used algorithm for reconstructing a surface from an oriented point cloud. To facilitate applications where only partial surface information is available, or scanning is performed sequentially, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sidhanth Holalkere , David S. Bindel , Silvia Sellán , Alexander Terenin

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized photorealistic rendering, its vast ecosystem of assets remains incompatible with high-performance LiDAR simulation, a critical tool for robotics and autonomous driving. We present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junzhe Wu , Yufei Jia , Yiyi Yan , Zhixing Chen , Tiao Tan , Zifan Wang , Guangyu Wang

This paper presents a new curved layer volume decomposition method for multi-axis support-free printing of freeform solid parts. Given a solid model to be printed that is represented as a tetrahedral mesh, we first establish a geodesic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yamin Li , Dong He , Xiangyu Wang , Kai Tang

3D reconstruction of indoor and urban environments is a prominent research topic with various downstream applications. However, existing geometric priors for addressing low-texture regions in indoor and urban settings often lack global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiyu Zhang , Chong Bao , Yipeng Chen , Hongjia Zhai , Yitong Dong , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

In this work, we introduce the first unsupervised method that simultaneously predicts time-varying neural implicit surfaces and deformations between pairs of point clouds. We propose to model the point movement using an explicit velocity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

The ability to recognize previously mapped locations is an essential feature for autonomous systems. Unstructured planetary-like environments pose a major challenge to these systems due to the similarity of the terrain. As a result, the…

The electric field integral equation is a well known workhorse for obtaining fields scattered by a perfect electric conducting (PEC) object. As a result, the nuances and challenges of solving this equation have been examined for a while.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Xin Fu , Jie Li , Li Jun Jiang , Balasubramaniam Shanker

Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF,to tackle the long-standing and challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud.To be specific, we propose a geometry-guided learning method for UDF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Ying He , Wenping Wang

Euclidean Signed Distance Field (ESDF) is useful for online motion planning of aerial robots since it can easily query the distance and gradient information against obstacles. Fast incrementally built ESDF map is the bottleneck for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Luxin Han , Fei Gao , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov