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Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a paradigm in knowledge representation, offering exceptional flexibility and performance across a diverse range of applications. INRs leverage multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Amer Essakine , Yanqi Cheng , Chun-Wun Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhongying Deng , Lei Zhu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Recent advancements in deep learning have greatly enhanced 3D object recognition, but most models are limited to closed-set scenarios, unable to handle unknown samples in real-world applications. Open-set recognition (OSR) addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jinfeng Xu , Xianzhi Li , Yuan Tang , Xu Han , Qiao Yu , Yixue Hao , Long Hu , Min Chen

We investigate the problem of learning to generate 3D parametric surface representations for novel object instances, as seen from one or more views. Previous work on learning shape reconstruction from multiple views uses discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jiahui Lei , Srinath Sridhar , Paul Guerrero , Minhyuk Sung , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

We propose and evaluate a neural point-based graphics method that can model semi-transparent scene parts. Similarly to its predecessor pipeline, ours uses point clouds to model proxy geometry, and augments each point with a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Maria Kolos , Artem Sevastopolsky , Victor Lempitsky

While three-dimensional (3D) building models play an increasingly pivotal role in many real-world applications, obtaining a compact representation of buildings remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhaiyu Chen , Hugo Ledoux , Seyran Khademi , Liangliang Nan

Symbolic Regression (SR) offers an interpretable alternative to conventional Machine-Learning (ML) approaches, which are often criticized as ``black boxes''. In contrast to standard regression models that require a prescribed functional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Theofanis Aravanis , Grigorios Chrimatopoulos , Mohammad Ferdows , Michalis Xenos , Efstratios Em Tzirtzilakis

High-quality imaging in photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) usually requires a high-channel count system for dense spatial sampling around the object to avoid aliasing-related artefacts. To reduce system complexity, various image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Bowei Yao , Shilong Cui , Haizhao Dai , Qing Wu , Youshen Xiao , Fei Gao , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang , Xiran Cai

We introduce a novel neural representation for maps between 3D shapes based on flow-matching models, which is computationally efficient and supports cross-representation shape matching without large-scale training or data-driven procedures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lorenzo Olearo , Giulio Viganò , Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Simone Melzi

Implicit representation of an image can map arbitrary coordinates in the continuous domain to their corresponding color values, presenting a powerful capability for image reconstruction. Nevertheless, existing implicit representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Canyu Zhang , Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Song Wang

Recently, neural implicit functions have demonstrated remarkable results in the field of multi-view reconstruction. However, most existing methods are tailored for dense views and exhibit unsatisfactory performance when dealing with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Han Huang , Yulun Wu , Junsheng Zhou , Ge Gao , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Particle-based shape modeling (PSM) is a family of approaches that automatically quantifies shape variability across anatomical cohorts by positioning particles (pseudo landmarks) on shape surfaces in a consistent configuration. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Masked signal modeling has greatly advanced self-supervised pre-training for language and 2D images. However, it is still not fully explored in 3D scene understanding. Thus, this paper introduces Masked Shape Prediction (MSP), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Li Jiang , Zetong Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Vladislav Golyanik , Dengxin Dai , Bernt Schiele

In this paper, we revisit the classical representation of 3D point clouds as linear shape models. Our key insight is to leverage deep learning to represent a collection of shapes as affine transformations of low-dimensional linear shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Romain Loiseau , Tom Monnier , Mathieu Aubry , Loïc Landrieu

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

We propose a semantic-aware neural reconstruction method to generate 3D high-fidelity models from sparse images. To tackle the challenge of severe radiance ambiguity caused by mismatched features in sparse input, we enrich neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Bo Xu , Yuhu Guo , Yuchao Wang , Wenting Wang , Yeung Yam , Charlie C. L. Wang , Xinyi Le

The recent surge of utilizing deep neural networks for geometric processing and shape modeling has opened up exciting avenues. However, there is a conspicuous lack of research efforts on using powerful neural representations to extend the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Yang , Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Alla Sheffer , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Iterative refinement -- start with a random guess, then iteratively improve the guess -- is a useful paradigm for representation learning because it offers a way to break symmetries among equally plausible explanations for the data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Michael Chang , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sergey Levine

Reconstruction of 3D open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is an underexplored area of computer vision. Recent learning-based implicit techniques have removed previous barriers by enabling reconstruction in arbitrary resolutions. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

In this paper, we propose the neural shortest path (NSP), a vector-valued implicit neural representation (INR) that approximates a distance function and its gradient. The key feature of NSP is to learn the exact shortest path (ESP), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yesom Park , Imseong Park , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang