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Neural 3D implicit representations learn priors that are useful for diverse applications, such as single- or multiple-view 3D reconstruction. A major downside of existing approaches while rendering an image is that they require evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tarun Yenamandra , Ayush Tewari , Nan Yang , Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Daniel Cremers

Recent advances in computer graphics and computer vision have found successful application of deep neural network models for 3D shapes based on signed distance functions (SDFs) that are useful for shape representation, retrieval, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oladapo Afolabi , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vincent Sitzmann , Eric R. Chan , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Gordon Wetzstein

Methods allowing the synthesis of realistic cell shapes could help generate training data sets to improve cell tracking and segmentation in biomedical images. Deep generative models for cell shape synthesis require a light-weight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

High-quality reconstruction of controllable 3D head avatars from 2D videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications in movies, games, and telepresence. Neural implicit fields provide a powerful representation to model 3D head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuhan Chen , Matthew O'Toole , Gaurav Bharaj , Pablo Garrido

Implicit representations of 3D objects have recently achieved impressive results on learning-based 3D reconstruction tasks. While existing works use simple texture models to represent object appearance, photo-realistic image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

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

In this paper, we develop a new method, termed SDF-3DGAN, for 3D object generation and 3D-Aware image synthesis tasks, which introduce implicit Signed Distance Function (SDF) as the 3D object representation method in the generative field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lutao Jiang , Ruyi Ji , Libo Zhang

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Segmenting arbitrary 3D objects into constituent parts that are structurally meaningful is a fundamental problem encountered in a wide range of computer graphics applications. Existing methods for 3D shape segmentation suffer from complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Changjian Li , Leif Kobbelt , Bin Wang , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) offer broader modeling capabilities than signed distance fields (SDFs), enabling the representation of shapes with open boundaries, non-manifold structures or mixed curve and surface parts. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qijia Huang , Pierre Kraemer , Dominique Bechmann

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

We introduce DMTet, a deep 3D conditional generative model that can synthesize high-resolution 3D shapes using simple user guides such as coarse voxels. It marries the merits of implicit and explicit 3D representations by leveraging a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Kangxue Yin , Ming-Yu Liu , Sanja Fidler

Differentiable physics is a powerful tool in computer vision and robotics for scene understanding and reasoning about interactions. Existing approaches have frequently been limited to objects with simple shape or shapes that are known in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Michael Strecke , Joerg Stueckler

Reconstructing 3D vehicles from noisy and sparse partial point clouds is of great significance to autonomous driving. Most existing 3D reconstruction methods cannot be directly applied to this problem because they are elaborately designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yibo Liu , Kelly Zhu , Guile Wu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu , Yang Liu , Jinjun Shan

When representing a solid object there are alternatives to the use of traditional explicit (surface meshes) or implicit (zero crossing of implicit functions) methods. Skeletal representations encode shape information in a mixed fashion:…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Andrea Tagliasacchi

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

We introduce Multiresolution Deep Implicit Functions (MDIF), a hierarchical representation that can recover fine geometry detail, while being able to perform global operations such as shape completion. Our model represents a complex 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zhang Chen , Yinda Zhang , Kyle Genova , Sean Fanello , Sofien Bouaziz , Christian Haene , Ruofei Du , Cem Keskin , Thomas Funkhouser , Danhang Tang

Robotic grasping of house-hold objects has made remarkable progress in recent years. Yet, human grasps are still difficult to synthesize realistically. There are several key reasons: (1) the human hand has many degrees of freedom (more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Jinlong Yang , Yan Zhang , Michael Black , Krikamol Muandet , Siyu Tang

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, resulting in a conservative trajectory, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao