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Dense 3D object reconstruction from a single image has recently witnessed remarkable advances, but supervising neural networks with ground-truth 3D shapes is impractical due to the laborious process of creating paired image-shape datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

Key part of robotics, augmented reality, and digital inspection is dense 3D reconstruction from depth observations. Traditional volumetric fusion techniques, including truncated signed distance functions (TSDF), enable efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Tapas Samanta

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Neural 3D implicit representations learn priors that are useful for diverse applications, such as single- or multiple-view 3D reconstruction. A major downside of existing approaches while rendering an image is that they require evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tarun Yenamandra , Ayush Tewari , Nan Yang , Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Daniel Cremers

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

Recent neural networks based surface reconstruction can be roughly divided into two categories, one warping templates explicitly and the other representing 3D surfaces implicitly. To enjoy the advantages of both, we propose a novel 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for multi-view reconstruction, complementing classical photogrammetric pipelines based on Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS). However, their reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiangsan Zhao , Jakob Geipel , Kryzysztof Kusnierek

Deep learning applied to the reconstruction of 3D shapes has seen growing interest. A popular approach to 3D reconstruction and generation in recent years has been the CNN encoder-decoder model usually applied in voxel space. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Eugene Belilovsky , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

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

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

This study proposes a neural disparity field (NDF) that establishes an implicit, continuous representation of scene disparity based on a neural field and an iterative approach to address the inverse problem of NDF reconstruction from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ligen Shi , Chang Liu , Xing Zhao , Jun Qiu

We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

Recent advances in 3D deep learning have shown that it is possible to train highly effective deep models for 3D shape generation, directly from 2D images. This is particularly interesting since the availability of 3D models is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Shichen Liu , Shunsuke Saito , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

We present SuperNormal, a fast, high-fidelity approach to multi-view 3D reconstruction using surface normal maps. With a few minutes, SuperNormal produces detailed surfaces on par with 3D scanners. We harness volume rendering to optimize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

We are seeing a Cambrian explosion of 3D shape representations for use in machine learning. Some representations seek high expressive power in capturing high-resolution detail. Other approaches seek to represent shapes as compositions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zekun Hao , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Noah Snavely , Serge Belongie

Accurate and efficient environment representation is crucial for robotic applications such as motion planning, manipulation, and navigation. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have emerged as a powerful representation for encoding distance to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhirui Dai , Tianxing Fan , Mani Amani , Jaemin Seo , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Hyondong Oh , Nikolay Atanasov

We present 3D Surface Splatting (3DSS), the first differentiable surface splatting renderer for physically-based inverse rendering from multi-view images. Our central insight is that the surface separation problem at the heart of surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma