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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

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

Recent advances in 3D human shape reconstruction from single images have shown impressive results, leveraging on deep networks that model the so-called implicit function to learn the occupancy status of arbitrarily dense 3D points in space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nicolas Ugrinovic , Albert Pumarola , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We address the problem of clothed human reconstruction from a single image or uncalibrated multi-view images. Existing methods struggle with reconstructing detailed geometry of a clothed human and often require a calibrated setting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ningna Wang , Xiana Carrera , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

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

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. Several recent state-of-the-art methods address this problem using neural networks to learn signed distance functions (SDFs). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Baorui Ma , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

3D point cloud anomaly detection is essential for robust vision systems but is challenged by pose variations and complex geometric anomalies. Existing patch-based methods often suffer from geometric fidelity issues due to discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Bozhong Zheng , Jinye Gan , Xiaohao Xu , Xintao Chen , Wenqiao Li , Xiaonan Huang , Na Ni , Yingna Wu

We propose a novel deep reinforcement learning-based approach for 3D object reconstruction from monocular images. Prior works that use mesh representations are template based. Thus, they are limited to the reconstruction of objects that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Tarek Ben Charrada , Hedi Tabia , Aladine Chetouani , Hamid Laga

Real-world objects and environments are predominantly composed of edge features, including straight lines and curves. Such edges are crucial elements for various applications, such as CAD modeling, surface meshing, lane mapping, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lei Li , Songyou Peng , Zehao Yu , Shaohui Liu , Rémi Pautrat , Xiaochuan Yin , Marc Pollefeys

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) provide a flexible representation for 3D shapes with arbitrary topology, including open and closed surfaces, orientable and non-orientable geometries, and non-manifold structures. While recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Junkai Deng , Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Shiqing Xin , Junhui Hou , Chen Qian , Ying He

As point clouds are 3D signals with permutation invariance, most existing works train their reconstruction networks by measuring shape differences with the average point-to-point distance between point clouds matched with predefined rules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Tianxin Huang , Qingyao Liu , Xiangrui Zhao , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

Recent work achieved impressive progress towards joint reconstruction of hands and manipulated objects from monocular color images. Existing methods focus on two alternative representations in terms of either parametric meshes or signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zerui Chen , Yana Hasson , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Reconstructing a continuous surface from a raw 3D point cloud is a challenging task. Recent methods usually train neural networks to overfit on single point clouds to infer signed distance functions (SDFs). However, neural networks tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Takeshi Noda , Chao Chen , Weiqi Zhang , Xinhai Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Medical image segmentation is often considered as the task of labelling each pixel or voxel as being inside or outside a given anatomy. Processing the images at their original size and resolution often result in insuperable memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Kristine Sørensen , Oscar Camara , Ole de Backer , Klaus Kofoed , Rasmus Paulsen

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

This research proposes a novel adjustable algorithm for reconstructing 3D body shapes from front and side silhouettes. Most recent silhouette-based approaches use a deep neural network trained by silhouettes and key points to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Aref Hemati , Azam Bastanfard