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Neural implicit representation has attracted attention in 3D reconstruction through various success cases. For further applications such as scene understanding or editing, several works have shown progress towards object compositional…

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Molecules have various computational representations, including numerical descriptors, strings, graphs, point clouds, and surfaces. Each representation method enables the application of various machine learning methodologies from linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jirka Lhotka , Daniel Probst

Reconstructing hand-held objects from monocular RGB images is an appealing yet challenging task. In this task, contacts between hands and objects provide important cues for recovering the 3D geometry of the hand-held objects. Though recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Junxing Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Zerui Chen , Mengcheng Li , Yunlong Wang , Yebin Liu , Zhenan Sun

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

High-fidelity 3D object synthesis remains significantly more challenging than 2D image generation due to the unstructured nature of mesh data and the cubic complexity of dense volumetric grids. Existing two-stage pipelines-compressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhihao Li , Yufei Wang , Heliang Zheng , Yihao Luo , Bihan Wen

3D Shape representation has substantial effects on 3D shape reconstruction. Primitive-based representations approximate a 3D shape mainly by a set of simple implicit primitives, but the low geometrical complexity of the primitives limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Mohsen Yavartanoo , JaeYoung Chung , Reyhaneh Neshatavar , Kyoung Mu Lee

Any solid object can be decomposed into a collection of convex polytopes (in short, convexes). When a small number of convexes are used, such a decomposition can be thought of as a piece-wise approximation of the geometry. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Boyang Deng , Kyle Genova , Soroosh Yazdani , Sofien Bouaziz , Geoffrey Hinton , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Modern visual generative models acquire rich visual knowledge through large-scale training, yet existing visual representations (such as pixels, latents, or tokens) remain external to the model and cannot directly exploit this knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zongyu Guo , Jiajun He , Zhaoyang Jia , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jiahao Li , Xiao Li , Bin Li , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Yan Lu

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks have shown promising results for 3D geometry prediction. They can make predictions from very little input data such as a single color image. A major limitation of such approaches is that they only…

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Field-guided parametrization methods have proven effective for quad meshing of surfaces; these methods compute smooth cross fields to guide the meshing process and then integrate the fields to construct a discrete mesh. A key challenge in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-29 David Palmer , David Bommes , Justin Solomon

With the advent of deep neural networks, learning-based approaches for 3D reconstruction have gained popularity. However, unlike for images, in 3D there is no canonical representation which is both computationally and memory efficient yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Lars Mescheder , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger

We present XCube (abbreviated as $\mathcal{X}^3$), a novel generative model for high-resolution sparse 3D voxel grids with arbitrary attributes. Our model can generate millions of voxels with a finest effective resolution of up to $1024^3$…

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We present a new approach to 3D object representation where a neural network encodes the geometry of an object directly into the weights and biases of a second 'mapping' network. This mapping network can be used to reconstruct an object by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Eric Mitchell , Selim Engin , Volkan Isler , Daniel D Lee

Learning effective multi-modal 3D representations of objects is essential for numerous applications, such as augmented reality and robotics. Existing methods often rely on task-specific embeddings that are tailored either for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Gaia Di Lorenzo , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Neural implicit functions have demonstrated significant importance in various areas such as computer vision, graphics. Their advantages include the ability to represent complex shapes and scenes with high fidelity, smooth interpolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged and shown their benefits over discrete representations in recent years. However, fitting an INR to the given observations usually requires optimization with gradient descent from scratch,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Yinbo Chen , Xiaolong Wang

Visual localization techniques rely upon some underlying scene representation to localize against. These representations can be explicit such as 3D SFM map or implicit, such as a neural network that learns to encode the scene. The former…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Maxime Pietrantoni , Gabriela Csurka , Martin Humenberger , Torsten Sattler

Coordinate-based neural networks parameterizing implicit surfaces have emerged as efficient representations of geometry. They effectively act as parametric level sets with the zero-level set defining the surface of interest. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

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