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Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Implicit neural representation is a recent approach to learn shape collections as zero level-sets of neural networks, where each shape is represented by a latent code. So far, the focus has been shape reconstruction, while shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Matan Atzmon , David Novotny , Andrea Vedaldi , Yaron Lipman

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

High-quality reconstruction of controllable 3D head avatars from 2D videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications in movies, games, and telepresence. Neural implicit fields provide a powerful representation to model 3D head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuhan Chen , Matthew O'Toole , Gaurav Bharaj , Pablo Garrido

In recent years, Neural Fields (NFs) have emerged as an effective tool for encoding diverse continuous signals such as images, videos, audio, and 3D shapes. When applied to 3D data, NFs offer a solution to the fragmentation and limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Luca De Luigi , Daniele Sirocchi , Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Francesco Ballerini , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

Implicit representations of geometry, such as occupancy fields or signed distance fields (SDF), have recently re-gained popularity in encoding 3D solid shape in a functional form. In this work, we introduce medial fields: a field function…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Rebain , Ke Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Soroosh Yazdani , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

We advocate the use of implicit fields for learning generative models of shapes and introduce an implicit field decoder, called IM-NET, for shape generation, aimed at improving the visual quality of the generated shapes. An implicit field…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Zhiqin Chen , Hao Zhang

We present a novel technique for implicit neural representation of light fields at continuously defined viewpoints with high quality and fidelity. Our implicit neural representation maps 4D coordinates defining two-plane parameterization of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Süleyman Aslan , Brandon Yushan Feng , Amitabh Varshney

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

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 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

The success of neural fields for 3D vision tasks is now indisputable. Following this trend, several methods aiming for visual localization (e.g., SLAM) have been proposed to estimate distance or density fields using neural fields. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Itsuki Ueda , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Hiroaki Aizawa , Hidehiko Shishido , Itaru Kitahara

A neural implicit outputs a number indicating whether the given query point in space is inside, outside, or on a surface. Many prior works have focused on _latent-encoded_ neural implicits, where a latent vector encoding of a specific shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thomas Davies , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson

A novel Neural Network architecture is proposed using the mathematically and physically rich idea of vector fields as hidden layers to perform nonlinear transformations in the data. The data points are interpreted as particles moving along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Daniel Vieira , Fabio Rangel , Fabricio Firmino , Joao Paixao

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han