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Recent advances in neural scene representations have led to unprecedented quality in 3D reconstruction and view synthesis. Despite achieving high-quality results for common benchmarks with curated data, outputs often degrade for data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Niemeyer , Fabian Manhardt , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Oechsle , Christina Tsalicoglou , Keisuke Tateno , Jonathan T. Barron , Federico Tombari

Recent work has demonstrated that volumetric scene representations combined with differentiable volume rendering can enable photo-realistic rendering for challenging scenes that mesh reconstruction fails on. However, these methods entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Fanbo Xiang , Zexiang Xu , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Hao Su

Neural surface reconstruction faces persistent challenges in reconciling geometric fidelity with photometric consistency under complex scene conditions. We present HiNeuS, a unified framework that holistically addresses three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

The recent success of implicit neural scene representations has presented a viable new method for how we capture and store 3D scenes. Unlike conventional 3D representations, such as point clouds, which explicitly store scene properties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Amit Kohli , Vincent Sitzmann , Gordon Wetzstein

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

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

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

Digital elevation modeling of planetary surfaces is essential for studying past and ongoing geological processes. Wide-angle imagery acquired during spacecraft descent promises to offer a low-cost option for high-resolution terrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Melonie de Almeida , George Brydon , Divya M. Persaud , John H. Williamson , Paul Henderson

Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) achieve remarkable visual quality when synthesizing novel views of time-evolving 3D scenes. However, the common reliance on backward deformation fields makes reanimation of the captured object poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Lukas Uzolas , Elmar Eisemann , Petr Kellnhofer

Neural fields, coordinate-based neural networks, have recently gained popularity for implicitly representing a scene. In contrast to classical methods that are based on explicit representations such as point clouds, neural fields provide a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Stephen Hausler , David Hall , Sutharsan Mahendren , Peyman Moghadam

We propose a new method for realistic real-time novel-view synthesis (NVS) of large scenes. Existing neural rendering methods generate realistic results, but primarily work for small scale scenes (<50 square meters) and have difficulty at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jeffrey Yunfan Liu , Yun Chen , Ze Yang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

There is an emerging effort to combine the two popular 3D frameworks using Multi-View Stereo (MVS) and Neural Implicit Surfaces (NIS) with a specific focus on the few-shot / sparse view setting. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Luoyuan Xu , Tao Guan , Yuesong Wang , Wenkai Liu , Zhaojie Zeng , Junle Wang , Wei Yang

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

We propose a new method for reconstructing controllable implicit 3D human models from sparse multi-view RGB videos. Our method defines the neural scene representation on the mesh surface points and signed distances from the surface of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Tianhan Xu , Yasuhiro Fujita , Eiichi Matsumoto

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

We propose a method, named DualMesh-UDF, to extract a surface from unsigned distance functions (UDFs), encoded by neural networks, or neural UDFs. Neural UDFs are becoming increasingly popular for surface representation because of their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Xin Li , Taku Komura , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Photo-realistic rendering and novel view synthesis play a crucial role in human-computer interaction tasks, from gaming to path planning. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) model scenes as continuous volumetric functions and achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Iryna Repinetska , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Representing 3D objects and scenes with neural radiance fields has become very popular over the last years. Recently, surface-based representations have been proposed, that allow to reconstruct 3D objects from simple photographs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sarthak Gupta , Patrik Huber

Reconstruction and intrinsic decomposition of scenes from captured imagery would enable many applications such as relighting and virtual object insertion. Recent NeRF based methods achieve impressive fidelity of 3D reconstruction, but bake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Jun Gao , Shengyu Huang , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zan Gojcic , Wenzheng Chen , Sanja Fidler

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson