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Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vincent Sitzmann , Eric R. Chan , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Gordon Wetzstein

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have gained prominence as a powerful paradigm in scene reconstruction and computer graphics, demonstrating remarkable results. By utilizing neural networks to parameterize data through implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Amirali Molaei , Amirhossein Aminimehr , Armin Tavakoli , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Bobby Azad , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

We introduce Explicit Neural Surfaces (ENS), an efficient smooth surface representation that directly encodes topology with a deformation field from a known base domain. We apply this representation to reconstruct explicit surfaces from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Thomas Walker , Octave Mariotti , Amir Vaxman , Hakan Bilen

The ongoing exponential rise in recording capacity calls for new approaches for analysing and interpreting neural data. Effective dimensionality has emerged as an important property of neural activity across populations of neurons, yet…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-30 Mehrdad Jazayeri , Srdjan Ostojic

Neural fields, coordinate-based neural networks, have recently gained popularity for implicitly representing a scene. In contrast to classical methods that are based on explicit representations such as point clouds, neural fields provide a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Stephen Hausler , David Hall , Sutharsan Mahendren , Peyman Moghadam

Deep neural networks can empirically perform efficient hierarchical learning, in which the layers learn useful representations of the data. However, how they make use of the intermediate representations are not explained by recent theories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Minshuo Chen , Yu Bai , Jason D. Lee , Tuo Zhao , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Taekbeom Lee , Youngseok Jang , H. Jin Kim

Recently, neural implicit functions have demonstrated remarkable results in the field of multi-view reconstruction. However, most existing methods are tailored for dense views and exhibit unsatisfactory performance when dealing with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Han Huang , Yulun Wu , Junsheng Zhou , Ge Gao , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Deep learning has transformed computational imaging, but traditional pixel-based representations limit their ability to capture continuous, multiscale details of objects. Here we introduce a novel Local Conditional Neural Fields (LCNF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Hao Wang , Jiabei Zhu , Yunzhe Li , QianWan Yang , Lei Tian

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Accurate representations of 3D faces are of paramount importance in various computer vision and graphics applications. However, the challenges persist due to the limitations imposed by data discretization and model linearity, which hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mingwu Zheng , Haiyu Zhang , Hongyu Yang , Liming Chen , Di Huang

Representing visual signals by implicit representation (e.g., a coordinate based deep network) has prevailed among many vision tasks. This work explores a new intriguing direction: training a stylized implicit representation, using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhiwen Fan , Yifan Jiang , Peihao Wang , Xinyu Gong , Dejia Xu , Zhangyang Wang

Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hanlin Yu , Berfin Inal , Georgios Arvanitidis , Soren Hauberg , Francesco Locatello , Marco Fumero

Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods seek to represent objects as semantically consistent part arrangements. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos , Andreas Geiger , Sanja Fidler

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

The manifold hypothesis is a core mechanism behind the success of deep learning, so understanding the intrinsic manifold structure of image data is central to studying how neural networks learn from the data. Intrinsic dataset manifolds and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Nicholas Konz , Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Maciej A. Mazurowski

In this work, we develop new generalization bounds for neural networks trained on data supported on Riemannian manifolds. Existing generalization theories often rely on complexity measures derived from Euclidean geometry, which fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Krisanu Sarkar

While both shape and texture are fundamental to visual recognition, research on deep neural networks (DNNs) has predominantly focused on the latter, leaving their geometric understanding poorly probed. Here, we show: first, that optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jian Wang , Yixing Yong , Haixia Bi , Lijun He , Fan Li