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The objective of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying generic objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) are widely used in 3D deep learning due to their ability to represent shapes with arbitrary topology. While prior work has largely focused on learning UDFs from point clouds or multi-view images, extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Ying He

Representing complex objects with basic geometric primitives has long been a topic in computer vision. Primitive-based representations have the merits of compactness and computational efficiency in higher-level tasks such as physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Weixiao Liu , Yuwei Wu , Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Dense 3D reconstruction has many applications in automated driving including automated annotation validation, multimodal data augmentation, providing ground truth annotations for systems lacking LiDAR, as well as enhancing auto-labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

We propose the Medial Skeletal Diagram, a novel skeletal representation that tackles the prevailing issues around skeleton sparsity and reconstruction accuracy in existing skeletal representations. Our approach augments the continuous…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Minghao Guo , Bohan Wang , Wojciech Matusik

In this paper, we present an implicit surface reconstruction method with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), namely 3DGSR, that allows for accurate 3D reconstruction with intricate details while inheriting the high efficiency and rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Xiaoyang Lyu , Yang-Tian Sun , Yi-Hua Huang , Xiuzhe Wu , Ziyi Yang , Yilun Chen , Jiangmiao Pang , Xiaojuan Qi

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yuanzhan Li , Yuqi Liu , Yujie Lu , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai , Yanting Zhang

Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

Accurate 3D shape representation is essential in engineering applications such as design, optimization, and simulation. In practice, engineering workflows require structured, part-based representations, as objects are inherently designed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Talabot , Olivier Clerc , Arda Cinar Demirtas , Alexis Goujon , Hieu Le , Doruk Oner , Pascal Fua

Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Jhony K. Pontes , Dominic Jack , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

The success of neural fields for 3D vision tasks is now indisputable. Following this trend, several methods aiming for visual localization (e.g., SLAM) have been proposed to estimate distance or density fields using neural fields. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Itsuki Ueda , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Hiroaki Aizawa , Hidehiko Shishido , Itaru Kitahara

Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

As the most common representation for 3D shapes, mesh is often stored discretely with arrays of vertices and faces. However, 3D shapes in the real world are presented continuously. In this paper, we propose to learn a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhongpai Gao

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been successfully used to represent 3D shapes implicitly and compactly, by mapping 3D coordinates to the corresponding signed distance values or occupancy values. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yang Liu , Yu-Qi Yang , Xin Tong

The goal of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

We present Factor Fields, a novel framework for modeling and representing signals. Factor Fields decomposes a signal into a product of factors, each represented by a classical or neural field representation which operates on transformed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Anpei Chen , Zexiang Xu , Xinyue Wei , Siyu Tang , Hao Su , Andreas Geiger

Template 3D shapes are useful for many tasks in graphics and vision, including fitting observation data, analyzing shape collections, and transferring shape attributes. Because of the variety of geometry and topology of real-world shapes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Daniel Vlasic , Aaron Sarna , William T. Freeman , Thomas Funkhouser