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The objective of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying generic objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Reasoning about distance is indispensable for establishing or avoiding contact in manipulation tasks. To this end, we present an online approach for learning implicit representations of signed distance using piecewise polynomial basis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Ante Marić , Yiming Li , Sylvain Calinon

We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Rao Fu , Kai Hormann , Pierre Alliez

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

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

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ningna Wang , Xiana Carrera , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

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

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Jhony K. Pontes , Dominic Jack , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Remi Chierchia , Léo Lebrat , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Rodrigo Santa Cruz

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

Signed distance field (SDF) is a prominent implicit representation of 3D meshes. Methods that are based on such representation achieved state-of-the-art 3D shape reconstruction quality. However, these methods struggle to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Kacper Kania , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Key part of robotics, augmented reality, and digital inspection is dense 3D reconstruction from depth observations. Traditional volumetric fusion techniques, including truncated signed distance functions (TSDF), enable efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Tapas Samanta

Learning structures of 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in the field of computer graphics and geometry processing. We present a simple yet interpretable unsupervised method for learning a new structural representation in the form of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Nenglun Chen , Lingjie Liu , Zhiming Cui , Runnan Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Given only a set of images, neural implicit surface representation has shown its capability in 3D surface reconstruction. However, as the nature of per-scene optimization is based on the volumetric rendering of color, previous neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jing Li , Jinpeng Yu , Ruoyu Wang , Zhengxin Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Lina Cao , Shenghua Gao

In this paper, we investigate a new optimization framework for multi-view 3D shape reconstructions. Recent differentiable rendering approaches have provided breakthrough performances with implicit shape representations though they can still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Pierre Zins , Yuanlu Xu , Edmond Boyer , Stefanie Wuhrer , Tony Tung

Neural implicit surface representations are currently receiving a lot of interest as a means to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstruction at a low memory cost, compared to traditional explicit representations.However, state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) provide a versatile framework for representing a diverse array of 3D shapes, encompassing both watertight and non-watertight geometries. Traditional UDF learning methods typically require extensive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiangbei Hu , Yanggeng Li , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Shengfa Wang , Na Lei , Ying He

Recent neural networks based surface reconstruction can be roughly divided into two categories, one warping templates explicitly and the other representing 3D surfaces implicitly. To enjoy the advantages of both, we propose a novel 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

Dense 3D object reconstruction from a single image has recently witnessed remarkable advances, but supervising neural networks with ground-truth 3D shapes is impractical due to the laborious process of creating paired image-shape datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang