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We propose Medial Atom Ray Fields (MARFs), a novel neural object representation that enables accurate differentiable surface rendering with a single network evaluation per camera ray. Existing neural ray fields struggle with multi-view…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Peder Bergebakken Sundt , Theoharis Theoharis

Reconstructing hand-held objects from a single RGB image is an important and challenging problem. Existing works utilizing Signed Distance Fields (SDF) reveal limitations in comprehensively capturing the complex hand-object interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenyangguang Zhang , Yan Di , Ruida Zhang , Guangyao Zhai , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Xiangyang Ji

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

In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Akarshani Ramanayake , Nihal Kodikara

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein

Neural fields have emerged as a powerful representation for 3D geometry, enabling compact and continuous modeling of complex shapes. Despite their expressive power, manipulating neural fields in a controlled and accurate manner --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà , Simone Melzi , Zorah Lähner

We describe in this short note a technique to convert an implicit surface into a Signed Distance Function (SDF) while exactly preserving the zero level-set of the implicit. The proposed approach relies on embedding the input implicit in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Pierre-Alain Fayolle

In this work, we present a new method for 3D face reconstruction from sparse-view RGB images. Unlike previous methods which are built upon 3D morphable models (3DMMs) with limited details, we leverage an implicit representation to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Moran Li , Haibin Huang , Yi Zheng , Mengtian Li , Nong Sang , Chongyang Ma

Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) are vital implicit representations to represent high fidelity 3D surfaces. Current methods mainly leverage a neural network to learn an SDF from various supervisions including signed distances, 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Efficiently reconstructing complex and intricate surfaces at scale is a long-standing goal in machine perception. To address this problem we introduce Deep Local Shapes (DeepLS), a deep shape representation that enables encoding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rohan Chabra , Jan Eric Lenssen , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Julian Straub , Steven Lovegrove , Richard Newcombe

Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

High fidelity representation of shapes with arbitrary topology is an important problem for a variety of vision and graphics applications. Owing to their limited resolution, classical discrete shape representations using point clouds, voxels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Rahul Venkatesh , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , Laszlo Jeni , Maneesh Singh

We introduce a general, scalable computational framework for multi-axis 3D printing based on implicit neural fields (INFs) that unifies all stages of toolpath generation and global collision-free motion planning. In our pipeline, input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiasheng Qu , Zhuo Huang , Dezhao Guo , Hailin Sun , Aoran Lyu , Chengkai Dai , Yeung Yam , Guoxin Fang

Diffusion models have shown remarkable results for image generation, editing and inpainting. Recent works explore diffusion models for 3D shape generation with neural implicit functions, i.e., signed distance function and occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Junsheng Zhou , Weiqi Zhang , Baorui Ma , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

Recent advances in localized implicit functions have enabled neural implicit representation to be scalable to large scenes. However, the regular subdivision of 3D space employed by these approaches fails to take into account the sparsity of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jia-Heng Tang , Weikai Chen , Jie Yang , Bo Wang , Songrun Liu , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

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

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

\textit{Implicit neural representations} (INRs) have emerged as a promising framework for representing signals in low-dimensional spaces. This survey reviews the existing literature on the specialized INR problem of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luiz Schirmer , Tiago Novello , Vinícius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Daniel Perazzo , Hélio Lopes , Nuno Gonçalves , Luiz Velho

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang