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Learning-based 3D reconstruction methods have shown impressive results. However, most methods require 3D supervision which is often hard to obtain for real-world datasets. Recently, several works have proposed differentiable rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Michael Oechsle , Andreas Geiger

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

With the increased availability of 3D scanning technology, point clouds are moving into the focus of computer vision as a rich representation of everyday scenes. However, they are hard to handle for machine learning algorithms due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Sergey Prokudin , Christoph Lassner , Javier Romero

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Semantic scene understanding from point clouds is particularly challenging as the points reflect only a sparse set of the underlying 3D geometry. Previous works often convert point cloud into regular grids (e.g. voxels or bird-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yinyu Nie , Ji Hou , Xiaoguang Han , Matthias Nießner

This paper advocates the use of implicit surface representation in autoencoder-based self-supervised 3D representation learning. The most popular and accessible 3D representation, i.e., point clouds, involves discrete samples of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Siming Yan , Zhenpei Yang , Haoxiang Li , Chen Song , Li Guan , Hao Kang , Gang Hua , Qixing Huang

Deep implicit functions have shown remarkable shape modeling ability in various 3D computer vision tasks. One drawback is that it is hard for them to represent a 3D shape as multiple parts. Current solutions learn various primitives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present ANISE, a method that reconstructs a 3D~shape from partial observations (images or sparse point clouds) using a part-aware neural implicit shape representation. The shape is formulated as an assembly of neural implicit functions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dmitry Petrov , Matheus Gadelha , Radomir Mech , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), also known as neural fields, have emerged as a powerful paradigm in deep learning, parameterizing continuous spatial fields using coordinate-based neural networks. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yichi Zhang , Qianqian Yang

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has revolutionized three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction with its implicit representation. Building upon NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has departed from the implicit representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bin Zhang , Bi Zeng , Zexin Peng

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

Neural reconstruction and rendering strategies have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances due, in part, to their ability to preserve high level shape details. Existing approaches, however, either represent objects as implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Angtian Wang , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Edmond Boyer , Alan Yuille , Tony Tung

Reconstructing a surface from a point cloud is an underdetermined problem. We use a neural network to study and quantify this reconstruction uncertainty under a Poisson smoothness prior. Our algorithm addresses the main limitations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Silvia Sellán , Alec Jacobson

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

Point clouds have gained prominence across numerous applications due to their ability to accurately represent 3D objects and scenes. However, efficiently compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Neural implicit surface reconstruction has achieved remarkable progress recently. Despite resorting to complex radiance modeling, state-of-the-art methods still struggle with textureless and specular surfaces. Different from RGB images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Guangcheng Chen , Yicheng He , Li He , Hong Zhang

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

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