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Accurate and dense mapping in large-scale environments is essential for various robot applications. Recently, implicit neural signed distance fields (SDFs) have shown promising advances in this task. However, most existing approaches employ…

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Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

3D decomposition/segmentation still remains a challenge as large-scale 3D annotated data is not readily available. Contemporary approaches typically leverage 2D machine-generated segments, integrating them for 3D consistency. While the…

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Cross-modal ship re-identification (ReID) between optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is fundamentally challenged by the severe radiometric discrepancy between passive optical imaging and coherent active radar sensing. While…

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Ensuring safety and robustness of robot skills is becoming crucial as robots are required to perform increasingly complex and dynamic tasks. The former is essential when performing tasks in cluttered environments, while the latter is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ken-Joel Simmoteit , Philipp Schillinger , Leonel Rozo

We introduce a pipeline for representing a protein, or protein complex, as the union of signed distance functions (SDFs) by representing each atom as a sphere with the appropriate radius. While this idea has been used previously as a way to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Cory B. Scott , Charlie Rothschild , Benjamin Nye

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Remi Chierchia , Léo Lebrat , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Rodrigo Santa Cruz

It is vital to infer signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds. The latest methods rely on generalizing the priors learned from large scale supervision. However, the learned priors do not generalize well to various geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We introduce Structure from Action (SfA), a framework to discover 3D part geometry and joint parameters of unseen articulated objects via a sequence of inferred interactions. Our key insight is that 3D interaction and perception should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Neil Nie , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Kiana Ehsani , Shuran Song

Embodied intelligence requires precise reconstruction and rendering to simulate large-scale real-world data. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated high-quality results with real-time performance, it still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodong Xiang , Xinghui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiansong Lai , Wanting Zhang , Zhichao Liao , Long Zeng , Xueping Liu

This paper presents a novel framework for modeling and conditional generation of 3D articulated objects. Troubled by flexibility-quality tradeoffs, existing methods are often limited to using predefined structures or retrieving shapes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiayi Su , Youhe Feng , Zheng Li , Jinhua Song , Yangfan He , Botao Ren , Botian Xu

Articulated object manipulation is essential for various real-world robotic tasks, yet generalizing across diverse objects remains a major challenge. A key to generalization lies in understanding functional parts (e.g., door handles and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yue Chen , Muqing Jiang , Kaifeng Zheng , Jiaqi Liang , Chenrui Tie , Haoran Lu , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

Neural fields have revolutionized the area of 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis of rigid scenes. A key challenge in making such methods applicable to articulated objects, such as the human body, is to model the deformation of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Max Rietmann , Andreas Geiger , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Accurate mapping and localization are very important for many industrial robotics applications. In this paper, we propose an improved Signed Distance Function (SDF) for both 2D SLAM and pure localization to improve the accuracy of mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xingyin Fu , Zheng Fang , Xizhen Xiao , Yijia He , Xiao Liu

Articulated objects are pervasive in daily life. However, due to the intrinsic high-DoF structure, the joint states of the articulated objects are hard to be estimated. To model articulated objects, two kinds of shape deformations namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Han Xue , Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Cewu Lu

3D scene graphs have empowered robots with semantic understanding for navigation and planning. However, current functional scene graphs primarily focus on static element detection, lacking the actionable kinematic information required for…

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a form of surface representation widely used in computer graphics, having applications in rendering, collision detection and modelling. In interactive media such as games, high-resolution SDFs are commonly…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Recovery of articulated 3D structure from 2D observations is a challenging computer vision problem with many applications. Current learning-based approaches achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on public benchmarks but are restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Onorina Kovalenko , Vladislav Golyanik , Jameel Malik , Ahmed Elhayek , Didier Stricker

Surface reconstruction from multi-view images is a core challenge in 3D vision. Recent studies have explored signed distance fields (SDF) within Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstructions. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Jiaze Li , Ying He

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

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