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Learning implicit representations has been a widely used solution for surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds. The latest methods infer a distance or occupancy field by overfitting a neural network on a single point cloud. However,…

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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…

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3D geometric shape completion hinges on representation learning and a deep understanding of geometric data. Without profound insights into the three-dimensional nature of the data, this task remains unattainable. Our work addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Faezeh Zakeri , Raphael Braun , Lukas Ruppert , Henrik P. A. Lensch

Accurate and dense mapping in large-scale environments is essential for various robot applications. Recently, implicit neural signed distance fields (SDFs) have shown promising advances in this task. However, most existing approaches employ…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shuangfu Song , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

Recent advances in radiance fields and novel view synthesis enable creation of realistic digital twins from photographs. However, current methods struggle with flat, texture-less surfaces, creating uneven and semi-transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maria Taktasheva , Lily Goli , Alessandro Fiorini , Zhen Li , Daniel Rebain , Andrea Tagliasacchi

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

We introduce a method that can learn to predict scene-level implicit functions for 3D reconstruction from posed RGBD data. At test time, our system maps a previously unseen RGB image to a 3D reconstruction of a scene via implicit functions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nilesh Kulkarni , Linyi Jin , Justin Johnson , David F. Fouhey

3D reconstruction of indoor and urban environments is a prominent research topic with various downstream applications. However, existing geometric priors for addressing low-texture regions in indoor and urban settings often lack global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiyu Zhang , Chong Bao , Yipeng Chen , Hongjia Zhai , Yitong Dong , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

We propose a method to interpolate Signed Distance Function (SDF) data from a discrete set of samples. Unlike prior work, our approach ensures that the new SDF data values are fully consistent with the input and each other, such that the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Letao Chen , Sanju Mupparaju , Christopher Batty , Silvia Sellán , Oded Stein

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Remi Chierchia , Léo Lebrat , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Rodrigo Santa Cruz

Implicit representations of 3D objects have recently achieved impressive results on learning-based 3D reconstruction tasks. While existing works use simple texture models to represent object appearance, photo-realistic image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

Compositional implicit surface representations model scenes as collections of objects, each encoded by a Signed Distance Field (SDF). A fundamental limitation of this approach is that multiple SDFs can produce geometries that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deniz Sayin Mercadier , Federico Stella , Aurel Bizeau , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

To reconstruct a 3D human surface from a single image, it is crucial to simultaneously consider human pose, shape, and clothing details. Recent approaches have combined parametric body models (such as SMPL), which capture body pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Baoxing Li , Yong Deng , Yehui Yang , Xu Zhao

Recent advances in computer graphics and computer vision have found successful application of deep neural network models for 3D shapes based on signed distance functions (SDFs) that are useful for shape representation, retrieval, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oladapo Afolabi , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Data-driven cell tracking and segmentation methods in biomedical imaging require diverse and information-rich training data. In cases where the number of training samples is limited, synthetic computer-generated data sets can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , Tereza Nečasová , Vladimír Ulman , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

3D reconstruction in large-scale scenes is a fundamental task in 3D perception, but the inherent trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency remains a significant challenge. Existing methods either prioritize speed and produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jungho Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Sunghun Yang , Minseok Kang , Sangyoun Lee

We propose a novel variational method to compute a highly accurate global signed distance function (SDF) to a given point cloud. To this end, the jump set of the gradient of the SDF, which coincides with the medial axis of the surface, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Samuel Weidemaier , Christoph Norden-Smoch , Martin Rumpf

Reconstructing hand-held objects from a single RGB image is an important and challenging problem. Existing works utilizing Signed Distance Fields (SDF) reveal limitations in comprehensively capturing the complex hand-object interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenyangguang Zhang , Yan Di , Ruida Zhang , Guangyao Zhai , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Xiangyang Ji

We introduce a novel approach for rendering static and dynamic 3D neural signed distance functions (SDF) in real-time. We rely on nested neighborhoods of zero-level sets of neural SDFs, and mappings between them. This framework supports…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vinícius da Silva , Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Hélio Lopes , Luiz Velho
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