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Neural implicit functions have demonstrated significant importance in various areas such as computer vision, graphics. Their advantages include the ability to represent complex shapes and scenes with high fidelity, smooth interpolation…

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Vector field design on surfaces was originally motivated by applications in graphics such as texture synthesis and rendering. In this paper, we consider the idea of vector field design with a new motivation from computational topology. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Youjia Zhou , Janis Lazovskis , Michael J. Catanzaro , Matthew Zabka , Bei Wang

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged in the last few years as a powerful tool to encode continuously a variety of different signals like images, videos, audio and 3D shapes. When applied to 3D shapes, INRs allow to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Luca De Luigi , Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

In this work, we present an automated workflow to bring human figures, one of the most frequently appearing entities on pictorial maps, to the third dimension. Our workflow is based on training data and neural networks for single-view 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Raimund Schnürer , A. Cengiz Öztireli , Magnus Heitzler , René Sieber , Lorenz Hurni

Deep implicit functions (DIFs), as a kind of 3D shape representation, are becoming more and more popular in the 3D vision community due to their compactness and strong representation power. However, unlike polygon mesh-based templates, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zerong Zheng , Tao Yu , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

We introduce an approach for selecting objects in neural volumetric 3D representations, such as multi-plane images (MPI) and neural radiance fields (NeRF). Our approach takes a set of foreground and background 2D user scribbles in one view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongzheng Ren , Aseem Agarwala , Bryan Russell , Alexander G. Schwing , Oliver Wang

Neural reconstruction and rendering strategies have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances due, in part, to their ability to preserve high level shape details. Existing approaches, however, either represent objects as implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Angtian Wang , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Edmond Boyer , Alan Yuille , Tony Tung

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Recent advancements in implicit neural representations have contributed to high-fidelity surface reconstruction and photorealistic novel view synthesis. However, the computational complexity inherent in these methodologies presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yiying Yang , Wen Liu , Fukun Yin , Xin Chen , Gang Yu , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Recent research on learnable neural representations has been widely adopted in the field of 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering applications. However, traditional feature grid representations often suffer from substantial memory…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Su , Honghao Dong , Haojie Jin , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Recent advances in machine learning have created increasing interest in solving visual computing problems using a class of coordinate-based neural networks that parametrize physical properties of scenes or objects across space and time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yiheng Xie , Towaki Takikawa , Shunsuke Saito , Or Litany , Shiqin Yan , Numair Khan , Federico Tombari , James Tompkin , Vincent Sitzmann , Srinath Sridhar

Fonts are ubiquitous across documents and come in a variety of styles. They are either represented in a native vector format or rasterized to produce fixed resolution images. In the first case, the non-standard representation prevents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pradyumna Reddy , Zhifei Zhang , Matthew Fisher , Hailin Jin , Zhaowen Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

Implicit neural representations map a shape-specific latent code and a 3D coordinate to its corresponding signed distance (SDF) value. However, this approach only offers a single level of detail. Emulating low levels of detail can be…

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Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Neural implicit fields have recently emerged as a useful representation for 3D shapes. These fields are commonly represented as neural networks which map latent descriptors and 3D coordinates to implicit function values. The latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Francis Williams , Alec Jacobson , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

Obtaining high-quality 3D reconstructions of room-scale scenes is of paramount importance for upcoming applications in AR or VR. These range from mixed reality applications for teleconferencing, virtual measuring, virtual room planing, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dejan Azinović , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Dan B Goldman , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Recent advances in neural scene representations have led to unprecedented quality in 3D reconstruction and view synthesis. Despite achieving high-quality results for common benchmarks with curated data, outputs often degrade for data that…

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