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The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

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

Representing 3D surfaces as level sets of continuous functions over $\mathbb{R}^3$ is the common denominator of neural implicit representations, which recently enabled remarkable progress in geometric deep learning and computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Daniele Baieri , Stefano Esposito , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà

Implicit representations of 3D objects have recently achieved impressive results on learning-based 3D reconstruction tasks. While existing works use simple texture models to represent object appearance, photo-realistic image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Neural implicit representations, which encode a surface as the level set of a neural network applied to spatial coordinates, have proven to be remarkably effective for optimizing, compressing, and generating 3D geometry. Although these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

Latest methods represent shapes with open surfaces using unsigned distance functions (UDFs). They train neural networks to learn UDFs and reconstruct surfaces with the gradients around the zero level set of the UDF. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

The level-set method is a popular interface tracking method in two-phase flow simulations. An often-cited reason for using it is that the method naturally handles topological changes in the interface, e.g. merging drops, due to the implicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-29 Åsmund Ervik , Karl Yngve Lervåg , Svend Tollak Munkejord

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

This paper proposes a new parametric level set method for topology optimization based on Deep Neural Network (DNN). In this method, the fully connected deep neural network is incorporated into the conventional level set methods to construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Hao Deng , Albert C. To

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

A level-set method is developed for numerically capturing the equilibrium solute-solvent interface that is defined by the recently proposed variational implicit solvent model (Dzubiella, Swanson, and McCammon, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 104},…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. -T. Cheng , J. Dzubiella , J. A. McCammon , B. Li

Representing surfaces as zero level sets of neural networks recently emerged as a powerful modeling paradigm, named Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), serving numerous downstream applications in geometric deep learning and 3D vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 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

We present a novel surface convolution operator acting on vector fields that is based on a simple observation: instead of combining neighboring features with respect to a single coordinate parameterization defined at a given point, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Thomas W. Mitchel , Vladimir G. Kim , Michael Kazhdan

The level sets of neural networks represent fundamental properties such as decision boundaries of classifiers and are used to model non-linear manifold data such as curves and surfaces. Thus, methods for controlling the neural level sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Matan Atzmon , Niv Haim , Lior Yariv , Ofer Israelov , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Explicit neural surface representations allow for exact and efficient extraction of the encoded surface at arbitrary precision, as well as analytic derivation of differential geometric properties such as surface normal and curvature. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Weng Fei Low , Gim Hee Lee

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

Surface extraction from implicit neural representations modelling a single class surface is a well-known task. However, there exist no surface extraction methods from an implicit representation of multiple classes that guarantee topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jash Vira , Andrew Myers , Simon Ratcliffe

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch