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Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

Road surface reconstruction plays a vital role in autonomous driving systems, enabling road lane perception and high-precision mapping. Recently, neural implicit encoding has achieved remarkable results in scene representation, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Qi Wang , Guangming Wang , Junping Wang , Tiankun Zhao , Yang Liu , Dongchao Gao , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

The recent success of implicit neural scene representations has presented a viable new method for how we capture and store 3D scenes. Unlike conventional 3D representations, such as point clouds, which explicitly store scene properties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Amit Kohli , Vincent Sitzmann , Gordon Wetzstein

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Oriented normals are common pre-requisites for many geometric algorithms based on point clouds, such as Poisson surface reconstruction. However, it is not trivial to obtain a consistent orientation. In this work, we bridge orientation and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dong Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Siyu Li , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

Feature representations, both hand-designed and learned ones, are often hard to analyze and interpret, even when they are extracted from visual data. We propose a new approach to study image representations by inverting them with an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Implicit representations are widely used for object reconstruction due to their efficiency and flexibility. In 2021, a novel structure named neural implicit map has been invented for incremental reconstruction. A neural implicit map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

Explicit neural surface representations allow for exact and efficient extraction of the encoded surface at arbitrary precision, as well as analytic derivation of differential geometric properties such as surface normal and curvature. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Weng Fei Low , Gim Hee Lee

Shape implicit neural representations (INRs) have recently shown to be effective in shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. Existing INRs require point coordinates to learn the implicit level sets of the shape. When a normal vector is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage , Stephen Gould

This work is concerned with a representation of shapes that disentangles fine, local and possibly repeating geometry, from global, coarse structures. Achieving such disentanglement leads to two unrelated advantages: i) a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Paul Guerrero , Vladimir G. Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

A neural implicit outputs a number indicating whether the given query point in space is inside, outside, or on a surface. Many prior works have focused on _latent-encoded_ neural implicits, where a latent vector encoding of a specific shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thomas Davies , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson

In recent years, neural implicit representations gained popularity in 3D reconstruction due to their expressiveness and flexibility. However, the implicit nature of neural implicit representations results in slow inference time and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Songyou Peng , Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Yiyi Liao , Michael Niemeyer , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

We present an approach for the reconstruction of textured 3D meshes of human heads from one or few views. Since such few-shot reconstruction is underconstrained, it requires prior knowledge which is hard to impose on traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Egor Burkov , Ruslan Rakhimov , Aleksandr Safin , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

Precise representations of 3D faces are beneficial to various computer vision and graphics applications. Due to the data discretization and model linearity, however, it remains challenging to capture accurate identity and expression clues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Mingwu Zheng , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Liming Chen

Very recently neural implicit rendering techniques have been rapidly evolved and shown great advantages in novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction. However, existing neural rendering methods for editing purposes offer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bangbang Yang , Chong Bao , Junyi Zeng , Hujun Bao , Yinda Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Coordinate-based neural networks parameterizing implicit surfaces have emerged as efficient representations of geometry. They effectively act as parametric level sets with the zero-level set defining the surface of interest. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural implicit functions have demonstrated significant importance in various areas such as computer vision, graphics. Their advantages include the ability to represent complex shapes and scenes with high fidelity, smooth interpolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Recent advances in implicit neural representations have achieved impressive results by sampling and fusing individual points along sampling rays in the sampling space. However, due to the explosively growing sampling space, finely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yuhan Ding , Fukun Yin , Jiayuan Fan , Hui Li , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Chongshan Lu , Gang YU , Tao Chen

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger