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Surface reconstruction with preservation of geometric features is a challenging computer vision task. Despite significant progress in implicit shape reconstruction, state-of-the-art mesh extraction methods often produce aliased,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Natalia Soboleva , Olga Gorbunova , Maria Ivanova , Evgeny Burnaev , Matthias Nießner , Denis Zorin , Alexey Artemov

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

We present a novel method for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from a large-scale, sparse, and noisy point cloud. Our approach builds upon the recently introduced Neural Kernel Fields (NKF) representation. It enjoys similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jiahui Huang , Zan Gojcic , Matan Atzmon , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler , Francis Williams

Implicit Neural Spatial Representation (INSR) has emerged as an effective representation of spatially-dependent vector fields. This work explores solving time-dependent PDEs with INSR. Classical PDE solvers introduce both temporal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Honglin Chen , Rundi Wu , Eitan Grinspun , Changxi Zheng , Peter Yichen Chen

We propose a new strategy to bridge point cloud denoising and surface reconstruction by alternately updating the denoised point clouds and the reconstructed surfaces. In Poisson surface reconstruction, the implicit function is generated by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Dong Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

The latest trends in the research field of single-view human reconstruction devote to learning deep implicit functions constrained by explicit body shape priors. Despite the remarkable performance improvements compared with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yingzhi Tang , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yebin Liu

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

LiDAR-based place recognition serves as a crucial enabler for long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous driving systems. Yet, prevailing methodologies relying on handcrafted feature extraction face dual challenges: (1) Inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaohui Jiang , Haijiang Zhu , Chade Li , Fulin Tang , Ning An

Implicit neural representations are powerful for geometric modeling, but their practical use is often limited by the high computational cost of network evaluations. We observe that implicit representations require progressively lower…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chuanxiang Yang , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Siyu Ren , Guangshun Wei , Taku Komura , Yuanfeng Zhou , Wenping Wang

Neural implicit surface representations have emerged as a promising paradigm to capture 3D shapes in a continuous and resolution-independent manner. However, adapting them to articulated shapes is non-trivial. Existing approaches learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xu Chen , Yufeng Zheng , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Andreas Geiger

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

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

Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been constructed with explicit representations such as meshes and voxel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Dieuwertje Alblas , Christoph Brune , Kak Khee Yeung , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous Deep Implicit Fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Edoardo Remelli , Artem Lukoianov , Stephan R. Richter , Benoît Guillard , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qianyi Wu , Xian Liu , Yuedong Chen , Kejie Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

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 present a novel neural implicit shape method for partial point cloud completion. To that end, we combine a conditional Deep-SDF architecture with learned, adversarial shape priors. More specifically, our network converts partial inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Abhishek Saroha , Marvin Eisenberger , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang