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Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

Compositional implicit surface representations model scenes as collections of objects, each encoded by a Signed Distance Field (SDF). A fundamental limitation of this approach is that multiple SDFs can produce geometries that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deniz Sayin Mercadier , Federico Stella , Aurel Bizeau , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Object completion networks typically produce static Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) that faithfully reconstruct geometry but cannot be rescaled or deformed without introducing structural distortions. This limitation restricts their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jelle Vermandere , Maarten Bassier , Maarten Vergauwen

We introduce a new generative approach for synthesizing 3D geometry and images from single-view collections. Most existing approaches predict volumetric density to render multi-view consistent images. By employing volumetric rendering using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Salvatore Esposito , Qingshan Xu , Kacper Kania , Charlie Hewitt , Octave Mariotti , Lohit Petikam , Julien Valentin , Arno Onken , Oisin Mac Aodha

We propose a new method, dubbed One Class Signed Distance Function (OCSDF), to perform One Class Classification (OCC) by provably learning the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to the boundary of the support of any distribution. The distance…

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

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown remarkable capability in representing geometry with details. However, without signed distance supervision, it is still a challenge to infer SDFs from point clouds or multi-view images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Baorui Ma , Junsheng Zhou , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Geodesics are essential in many geometry processing applications. However, traditional algorithms for computing geodesic distances and paths on 3D mesh models are often inefficient and slow. This makes them impractical for scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Deep learning-based 3D medical image segmentation methods relies on large-scale labeled datasets, yet acquiring such data is difficult due to privacy constraints and the high cost of expert annotation. Formula-Driven Supervised Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yukinori Yamamoto , Kazuya Nishimura , Tsukasa Fukusato , Hirokazu Nosato , Tetsuya Ogata , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been successfully used to represent 3D shapes implicitly and compactly, by mapping 3D coordinates to the corresponding signed distance values or occupancy values. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yang Liu , Yu-Qi Yang , Xin Tong

Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been constructed with explicit representations such as meshes and voxel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Dieuwertje Alblas , Christoph Brune , Kak Khee Yeung , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Recently, neural implicit surfaces learning by volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. However, one key challenge remains: existing approaches lack explicit multi-view geometry constraints, hence usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Qiancheng Fu , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, resulting in a conservative trajectory, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and computer graphics. SDF-based methods excel at reconstructing smooth meshes with minimal error and artefacts but struggle with representing open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Recently there has been renewed interest in signed distance bound representations due to their unique properties for 3D shape modelling. This is especially the case for deep learning-based bounds. However, it is beneficial to work with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Nenad Markuš , Mirko Sužnjević

The goal of this project is to learn a 3D shape representation that enables accurate surface reconstruction, compact storage, efficient computation, consistency for similar shapes, generalization across diverse shape categories, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Avneesh Sud , Aaron Sarna , Thomas Funkhouser

Accurate meshing from monocular images remains a key challenge in 3D vision. While state-of-the-art 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods excel at synthesizing photorealistic novel views through rasterization-based rendering, their reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Zeyu Chen , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari