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In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Point set is a flexible and lightweight representation widely used for 3D deep learning. However, their discrete nature prevents them from representing continuous and fine geometry, posing a major issue for learning-based shape generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shi-Lin Liu , Hao-Xiang Guo , Hao Pan , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

In recent years, neural implicit representations have made remarkable progress in modeling of 3D shapes with arbitrary topology. In this work, we address two key limitations of such representations, in failing to capture local 3D geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Hakan Bilen , Matthias Nießner , Efstratios Gavves

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of 3D keypoint estimation of general objects using a novel implicit representation. Previous works have demonstrated promising results for keypoint prediction through direct coordinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xiangyu Zhu , Dong Du , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Xiaoguang Han

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

In recent years, neural implicit representations gained popularity in 3D reconstruction due to their expressiveness and flexibility. However, the implicit nature of neural implicit representations results in slow inference time and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Songyou Peng , Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Yiyi Liao , Michael Niemeyer , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

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

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

Deep implicit functions (DIFs), as a kind of 3D shape representation, are becoming more and more popular in the 3D vision community due to their compactness and strong representation power. However, unlike polygon mesh-based templates, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zerong Zheng , Tao Yu , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

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

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

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 2024-08-28 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

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

Deep implicit surfaces excel at modeling generic shapes but do not always capture the regularities present in manufactured objects, which is something simple geometric primitives are particularly good at. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Subeesh Vasu , Nicolas Talabot , Artem Lukoianov , Pierre Baqué , Jonathan Donier , Pascal Fua

We present learning-based implicit shape representations designed for real-time avatar collision queries arising in the simulation of clothing. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have been used for such queries for many years due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Osman Akar , Yushan Han , Yizhou Chen , Weixian Lan , Benn Gallagher , Ronald Fedkiw , Joseph Teran

Recent advances in 3D deep learning have shown that it is possible to train highly effective deep models for 3D shape generation, directly from 2D images. This is particularly interesting since the availability of 3D models is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Shichen Liu , Shunsuke Saito , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous deep implicit fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Benoit Guillard , Edoardo Remelli , Artem Lukoianov , Stephan R. Richter , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua