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We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Deep neural representations of 3D shapes as implicit functions have been shown to produce high fidelity models surpassing the resolution-memory trade-off faced by the explicit representations using meshes and point clouds. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rahul Venkatesh , Tejan Karmali , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , László A. Jeni , Maneesh Singh

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) are widely used in 3D deep learning due to their ability to represent shapes with arbitrary topology. While prior work has largely focused on learning UDFs from point clouds or multi-view images, extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Ying He

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

Unsigned distance functions (UDFs) have been a vital representation for open surfaces. With different differentiable renderers, current methods are able to train neural networks to infer a UDF by minimizing the rendering errors with the UDF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Chunsheng Wang , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

Recent advances in learning 3D shapes using neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results by breaking the previous barrier of resolution and diversity for varying topologies. However, most of such approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Weikai Chen , Cheng Lin , Weiyang Li , Bo Yang

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 surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

As point clouds are 3D signals with permutation invariance, most existing works train their reconstruction networks by measuring shape differences with the average point-to-point distance between point clouds matched with predefined rules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Tianxin Huang , Qingyao Liu , Xiangrui Zhao , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) allow for the representation of models with complex topologies, but extracting accurate zero level sets from these fields poses significant challenges, particularly in preserving topological accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Xuhui Chen , Fugang Yu , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

In this paper, we propose a new method, called DoubleCoverUDF, for extracting the zero level-set from unsigned distance fields (UDFs). DoubleCoverUDF takes a learned UDF and a user-specified parameter $r$ (a small positive real number) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Ying He

Real-world objects and environments are predominantly composed of edge features, including straight lines and curves. Such edges are crucial elements for various applications, such as CAD modeling, surface meshing, lane mapping, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lei Li , Songyou Peng , Zehao Yu , Shaohui Liu , Rémi Pautrat , Xiaochuan Yin , Marc Pollefeys

This paper proposes a deep-learning-based method for recovering a signed distance function (SDF) of a given hypersurface represented by an implicit level set function. Using the flexibility of constructing a neural network, we use an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yesom Park , Chang hoon Song , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) provide a flexible representation for 3D shapes with arbitrary topology, including open and closed surfaces, orientable and non-orientable geometries, and non-manifold structures. While recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Junkai Deng , Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Shiqing Xin , Junhui Hou , Chen Qian , Ying He