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We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

This paper introduces a novel framework called DTNet for 3D mesh reconstruction and generation via Disentangled Topology. Beyond previous works, we learn a topology-aware neural template specific to each input then deform the template to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ka-Hei Hui , Ruihui Li , Jingyu Hu , Chi-Wing Fu

The advancements in neural rendering have increased the need for techniques that enable intuitive editing of 3D objects represented as neural implicit surfaces. This paper introduces a novel neural algorithm for parameterizing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Fei Hou , Kwan-Yee Lin , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Ying He

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Neural fields are receiving increased attention as a geometric representation due to their ability to compactly store detailed and smooth shapes and easily undergo topological changes. Compared to classic geometry representations, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Arturs Berzins , Moritz Ibing , Leif Kobbelt

Given a 3D surface defined by an elevation function on a 2D grid as well as non-spatial features observed at each pixel, the problem of surface segmentation aims to classify pixels into contiguous classes based on both non-spatial features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Wenchong He , Arpan Man Sainju , Zhe Jiang , Da Yan

Surface meshes are widely used shape representations and capture finer geometry data than point clouds or volumetric grids, but are challenging to apply CNNs directly due to their non-Euclidean structure. We use parallel frames on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Yuqi Yang , Shilin Liu , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

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

In this paper we address the problem of representing 3D visual data with parameterized volumetric shape primitives. Specifically, we present a (two-stage) approach built around convolutional neural networks (CNNs) capable of segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jaka Šircelj , Tim Oblak , Klemen Grm , Uroš Petković , Aleš Jaklič , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc , Franc Solina

In the past few years, convolutional neural nets (CNN) have shown incredible promise for learning visual representations. In this paper, we use CNNs for the task of predicting surface normals from a single image. But what is the right…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Xiaolong Wang , David F. Fouhey , Abhinav Gupta

Neural representations for 3D meshes are emerging as an effective solution for compact storage and efficient processing. Existing methods often rely on neural overfitting, where a coarse mesh is stored and progressively refined through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiang Gao , Yuanpeng Liu , Xinmu Wang , Jiazhi Li , Minghao Guo , Yu Guo , Xiyun Song , Heather Yu , Zhiqiang Lao , Xianfeng David Gu

Neural shape models can represent complex 3D shapes with a compact latent space. When applied to dynamically deforming shapes such as the human hands, however, they would need to preserve temporal coherence of the deformation as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Binbin Xu , Lingni Ma , Yuting Ye , Tanner Schmidt , Christopher D. Twigg , Steven Lovegrove

This paper presents a study on the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for camera relocalisation and its application to map compression. We follow state of the art visual relocalisation results and evaluate the response to different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Luis Contreras , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

Non-local self-similarity is well-known to be an effective prior for the image denoising problem. However, little work has been done to incorporate it in convolutional neural networks, which surpass non-local model-based methods despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Recently, implicit neural representations have gained popularity for learning-based 3D reconstruction. While demonstrating promising results, most implicit approaches are limited to comparably simple geometry of single objects and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Songyou Peng , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

Mesh processing pipelines are mature, but adapting them to newer non-mesh surface representations -- which enable fast rendering with compact file size -- requires costly meshing or transmitting bulky meshes, negating their core benefits…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuta Noma , Zhecheng Wang , Chenxi Liu , Karan Singh , Alec Jacobson

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

The remarkable performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is entangled with their huge number of uninterpretable parameters, which has become the bottleneck limiting the exploitation of their full potential. Towards network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yuchao Li , Rongrong Ji , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Chenqian Yan , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Ling Shao

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Neural representations of 3D data have been widely adopted across various applications, particularly in recent work leveraging coordinate-based networks to model scalar or vector fields. However, these approaches face inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Biao Zhang , Jing Ren , Peter Wonka