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Accurate modelling of object deformations is crucial for a wide range of robotic manipulation tasks, where interacting with soft or deformable objects is essential. Current methods struggle to generalise to unseen forces or adapt to new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sean M. V. Collins , Brendan Tidd , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Peyman Moghadam

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

Representation learning is the foundation for the recent success of neural network models. However, the distributed representations generated by neural networks are far from ideal. Due to their highly entangled nature, they are di cult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-09 William Whitney

Human perception of 3D shapes goes beyond reconstructing them as a set of points or a composition of geometric primitives: we also effortlessly understand higher-level shape structure such as the repetition and reflective symmetry of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yonglong Tian , Andrew Luo , Xingyuan Sun , Kevin Ellis , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has been emerging in computer vision in recent years. It has been shown to be effective in parameterising continuous signals such as dense 3D models from discrete image data, e.g. the neural radius field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Wentian Xu , Jianbo Jiao

Neural network (connectionist) models are designed to encode image features and provide the building blocks for object and shape recognition. These models generally call for: a) initial diffuse connections from one neuron population to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-09 Ernest Greene

Recently, methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have shown that learning neural implicit surfaces through volume rendering is becoming increasingly popular and making good progress. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hanqi Jiang , Cheng Zeng , Runnan Chen , Shuai Liang , Yinhe Han , Yichao Gao , Conglin Wang

Deformable shape representations, parameterized by deformations relative to a given template, have proven effective for improved image analysis tasks. However, their broader applicability is hindered by two major challenges. First, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tonmoy Hossain , Miaomiao Zhang

In recent years, substantial progress has been achieved in learning-based reconstruction of 3D objects. At the same time, generative models were proposed that can generate highly realistic images. However, despite this success in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Michael Oechsle , Lars Mescheder , Michael Niemeyer , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) encoding continuous multi-media data via multi-layer perceptrons has shown undebatable promise in various computer vision tasks. Despite many successful applications, editing and processing an INR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Dejia Xu , Peihao Wang , Yifan Jiang , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang

The recent surge of utilizing deep neural networks for geometric processing and shape modeling has opened up exciting avenues. However, there is a conspicuous lack of research efforts on using powerful neural representations to extend the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Yang , Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Alla Sheffer , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Longitudinal image registration enables studying temporal changes in brain morphology which is useful in applications where monitoring the growth or atrophy of specific structures is important. However this task is challenging due to;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Aisha L. Shuaibu , Kieran A. Gibb , Peter A. Wijeratne , Ivor J. A. Simpson

Neural network architectures have been extensively employed in the fair representation learning setting, where the objective is to learn a new representation for a given vector which is independent of sensitive information. Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mattia Cerrato , Marius Köppel , Alexander Segner , Stefan Kramer

Deep learning is emerging as a new paradigm for solving inverse imaging problems. However, the deep learning methods often lack the assurance of traditional physics-based methods due to the lack of physical information considerations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Dongdong Chen , Mike E. Davies

Reconstructing 3D human heads in low-view settings presents technical challenges, mainly due to the pronounced risk of overfitting with limited views and high-frequency signals. To address this, we propose geometry decomposition and adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Baixin Xu , Jiarui Zhang , Kwan-Yee Lin , Chen Qian , Ying He

Recent advances in implicit neural representations have made them a popular choice for modeling 3D geometry, achieving impressive results in tasks such as shape representation, reconstruction, and learning priors. However, directly editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Fizza Rubab , Yiying Tong

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Regularization strategies in medical image registration often take a one-size-fits-all approach by imposing uniform constraints across the entire image domain. Yet biological structures are anything but regular. Lacking structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziad Kheil , Soleakhena Ken , Laurent Risser

We introduce a novel data-driven approach aimed at designing high-quality shape deformations based on a coarse localized input signal. Unlike previous data-driven methods that require a global shape encoding, we observe that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ramana Sundararaman , Nicolas Donati , Simone Melzi , Etienne Corman , Maks Ovsjanikov

In an attempt to better understand generalization in deep learning, we study several possible explanations. We show that implicit regularization induced by the optimization method is playing a key role in generalization and success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Behnam Neyshabur