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In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Recent advances in implicit neural representations show great promise when it comes to generating numerical solutions to partial differential equations. Compared to conventional alternatives, such representations employ parameterized neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jonas Zehnder , Yue Li , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

We are witnessing an explosion of neural implicit representations in computer vision and graphics. Their applicability has recently expanded beyond tasks such as shape generation and image-based rendering to the fundamental problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiaming Sun , Xi Chen , Qianqian Wang , Zhengqi Li , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Xiaowei Zhou , Noah Snavely

Learning neural implicit surfaces from volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. Neural surface reconstruction approaches can recover complex 3D geometry that are difficult for classical Multi-view Stereo (MVS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mohamed Shawky Sabae , Hoda Anis Baraka , Mayada Mansour Hadhoud

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have been demonstrated to achieve state-of-the-art compression of a broad range of modalities such as images, videos, 3D surfaces, and audio. Most studies have focused on building neural counterparts…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan Bovik

Learning implicit representations has been a widely used solution for surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds. The latest methods infer a distance or occupancy field by overfitting a neural network on a single point cloud. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Representing visual signals by implicit representation (e.g., a coordinate based deep network) has prevailed among many vision tasks. This work explores a new intriguing direction: training a stylized implicit representation, using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhiwen Fan , Yifan Jiang , Peihao Wang , Xinyu Gong , Dejia Xu , Zhangyang Wang

Neural implicit representation is a promising approach for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds. Existing methods combine various regularization terms, such as the Eikonal and Laplacian energy terms, to enforce the learned neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Yunxiao Zhang , Rui Xu , Fan Zhang , Pengshuai Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

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

Neural fields, coordinate-based neural networks, have recently gained popularity for implicitly representing a scene. In contrast to classical methods that are based on explicit representations such as point clouds, neural fields provide a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Stephen Hausler , David Hall , Sutharsan Mahendren , Peyman Moghadam

The advancements in neural rendering have increased the need for techniques that enable intuitive editing of 3D objects represented as neural implicit surfaces. This paper introduces a novel neural algorithm for parameterizing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Fei Hou , Kwan-Yee Lin , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Ying He

We present a novel 3D mapping method leveraging the recent progress in neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. Most existing state-of-the-art neural implicit representation methods are limited to object-level reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Stefan Lionar , Lukas Schmid , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Andrei Cramariuc

Visual localization techniques rely upon some underlying scene representation to localize against. These representations can be explicit such as 3D SFM map or implicit, such as a neural network that learns to encode the scene. The former…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Maxime Pietrantoni , Gabriela Csurka , Martin Humenberger , Torsten Sattler

Neural implicit surface representations are currently receiving a lot of interest as a means to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstruction at a low memory cost, compared to traditional explicit representations.However, state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson