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Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

This paper introduces 3DFIRES, a novel system for scene-level 3D reconstruction from posed images. Designed to work with as few as one view, 3DFIRES reconstructs the complete geometry of unseen scenes, including hidden surfaces. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Linyi Jin , Nilesh Kulkarni , David Fouhey

Humans rely on their visual and tactile senses to develop a comprehensive 3D understanding of their physical environment. Recently, there has been a growing interest in exploring and manipulating objects using data-driven approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mauro Comi , Yijiong Lin , Alex Church , Alessio Tonioni , Laurence Aitchison , Nathan F. Lepora

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have emerged as powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and SLAM tasks. However, their performance depends heavily on accurate camera pose priors. Existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Recovery of a 3D head model including the complete face and hair regions is still a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we consider this problem using only a few multi-view portrait images as input. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Zhongqi Yang , Juyong Zhang

Accurately predicting the 3D shape of any arbitrary object in any pose from a single image is a key goal of computer vision research. This is challenging as it requires a model to learn a representation that can infer both the visible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Anh Thai , Stefan Stojanov , Vijay Upadhya , James M. Rehg

3D scene reconstruction from 2D images has been a long-standing task. Instead of estimating per-frame depth maps and fusing them in 3D, recent research leverages the neural implicit surface as a unified representation for 3D reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyi Yu , Liqin Lu , Jintao Rong , Guangkai Xu , Linlin Ou

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

High fidelity representation of shapes with arbitrary topology is an important problem for a variety of vision and graphics applications. Owing to their limited resolution, classical discrete shape representations using point clouds, voxels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Rahul Venkatesh , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , Laszlo Jeni , Maneesh Singh

By supervising camera rays between a scene and multi-view image planes, NeRF reconstructs a neural scene representation for the task of novel view synthesis. On the other hand, shadow rays between the light source and the scene have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jingwang Ling , Zhibo Wang , Feng Xu

Current non-rigid structure from motion (NRSfM) algorithms are mainly limited with respect to: (i) the number of images, and (ii) the type of shape variability they can handle. This has hampered the practical utility of NRSfM for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Chen Kong , Simon Lucey

3D reconstruction from images has wide applications in Virtual Reality and Automatic Driving, where the precision requirement is very high. Ground-breaking research in the neural radiance field (NeRF) by utilizing Multi-Layer Perceptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jiaming Shen , Bolin Song , Zirui Wu , Yi Xu

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

Indoor scenes we are living in are visually homogenous or textureless, while they inherently have structural forms and provide enough structural priors for 3D scene reconstruction. Motivated by this fact, we propose a structure-aware online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jaehoon Jang , Inha Lee , Minje Kim , Kyungdon Joo

3D reconstruction methods such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) excel at rendering photorealistic novel views of complex scenes. However, recovering a high-quality NeRF typically requires tens to hundreds of input images, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Rundi Wu , Ben Mildenhall , Philipp Henzler , Keunhong Park , Ruiqi Gao , Daniel Watson , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Poole , Aleksander Holynski

Automated three-dimensional (3D) object reconstruction is the task of building a geometric representation of a physical object by means of sensing its surface. Even though new single view reconstruction techniques can predict the surface,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 J. Irving Vasquez-Gomez , David Troncoso , Israel Becerra , Enrique Sucar , Rafael Murrieta-Cid

Faithfully modeling the space of articulations is a crucial task that allows recovery and generation of realistic poses, and remains a notorious challenge. To this end, we introduce Neural Riemannian Distance Fields (NRDFs), data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yannan He , Garvita Tiwari , Tolga Birdal , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-Moll

Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) structures from two-dimensional (2D) X-ray images is a valuable and efficient technique in medical applications that requires less radiation exposure than computed tomography scans. Recent approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chengrui Zhu , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Masataka Kagesawa , Tomohisa Yuzawa , Toru Watsuji , Takeshi Oishi

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