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Neural Fields have emerged as a transformative approach for 3D scene representation in computer vision and robotics, enabling accurate inference of geometry, 3D semantics, and dynamics from posed 2D data. Leveraging differentiable…

Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. Several recent state-of-the-art methods address this problem using neural networks to learn signed distance functions (SDFs). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Baorui Ma , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Efficiently reconstructing complex and intricate surfaces at scale is a long-standing goal in machine perception. To address this problem we introduce Deep Local Shapes (DeepLS), a deep shape representation that enables encoding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rohan Chabra , Jan Eric Lenssen , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Julian Straub , Steven Lovegrove , Richard Newcombe

Recently, it has shown that priors are vital for neural implicit functions to reconstruct high-quality surfaces from multi-view RGB images. However, current priors require large-scale pre-training, and merely provide geometric clues without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenyuan Zhang , Emily Yue-ting Jia , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Learning neural implicit representations has achieved remarkable performance in 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Current methods use volume rendering to render implicit representations into either RGB or depth images that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

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

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Autonomous robots should operate in real-world dynamic environments and collaborate with humans in tight spaces. A key component for allowing robots to leave structured lab and manufacturing settings is their ability to evaluate online and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Puze Liu , Kuo Zhang , Davide Tateo , Snehal Jauhri , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Traditional approaches for manipulation planning rely on an explicit geometric model of the environment to formulate a given task as an optimization problem. However, inferring an accurate model from raw sensor input is a hard problem in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Phillip Grote , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

Photo-realistic free-viewpoint rendering of real-world scenes using classical computer graphics techniques is challenging, because it requires the difficult step of capturing detailed appearance and geometry models. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lingjie Liu , Jiatao Gu , Kyaw Zaw Lin , Tat-Seng Chua , Christian Theobalt

Representing surfaces as zero level sets of neural networks recently emerged as a powerful modeling paradigm, named Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), serving numerous downstream applications in geometric deep learning and 3D vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yaron Lipman

Neural implicit methods have achieved high-quality 3D object surfaces under slight specular highlights. However, high specular reflections (HSR) often appear in front of target objects when we capture them through glasses. The complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiaxiong Qiu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Yifan Zhu , Ze-Xin Yin , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Brandon Yushan Feng , Yinda Zhang , Danhang Tang , Ruofei Du , Amitabh Varshney

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

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method called NeuralRoom for reconstructing room-sized indoor scenes directly from a set of 2D images. Recently, implicit neural representations have become a promising way to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yusen Wang , Zongcheng Li , Yu Jiang , Kaixuan Zhou , Tuo Cao , Yanping Fu , Chunxia Xiao

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…

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang