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We present a novel non-iterative learnable method for partial-to-partial 3D shape registration. The partial alignment task is extremely complex, as it jointly tries to match between points and identify which points do not appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv

Most current neural networks for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds ignore sensor poses and only operate on raw point locations. Sensor visibility, however, holds meaningful information regarding space occupancy and surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Raphael Sulzer , Loic Landrieu , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet

We propose a novel 3D spatial representation for data fusion and scene reconstruction. Probabilistic Signed Distance Function (Probabilistic SDF, PSDF) is proposed to depict uncertainties in the 3D space. It is modeled by a joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wei Dong , Qiuyuan Wang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

We propose a variational functional and fast algorithms to reconstruct implicit surface from point cloud data with a curvature constraint. The minimizing functional balances the distance function from the point cloud and the mean curvature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuchen He , Sung Ha Kang , Hao Liu

Real-world 3D data may contain intricate details defined by salient surface gaps. Automated reconstruction of these open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is a challenging problem for environment synthesis in mixed reality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

Inferring signed distance functions (SDFs) from sparse point clouds remains a challenge in surface reconstruction. The key lies in the lack of detailed geometric information in sparse point clouds, which is essential for learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Takeshi Noda , Chao Chen , Junsheng Zhou , Weiqi Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

A promising direction for pre-training 3D point clouds is to leverage the massive amount of data in 2D, whereas the domain gap between 2D and 3D creates a fundamental challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach to point-cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Siming Yan , Chen Song , Youkang Kong , Qixing Huang

Implicit neural networks have emerged as a crucial technology in 3D surface reconstruction. To reconstruct continuous surfaces from discrete point clouds, encoding the input points into regular grid features (plane or volume) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Ming Gu

Most existing approaches for point cloud normal estimation aim to locally fit a geometric surface and calculate the normal from the fitted surface. Recently, learning-based methods have adopted a routine of predicting point-wise weights to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

We present an approach to inform the reconstruction of a surface from a point scan through topological priors. The reconstruction is based on basis functions which are optimized to provide a good fit to the point scan while satisfying…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Primoz Skraba , Leonidas J. Guibas

Neural networks that map 3D coordinates to signed distance function (SDF) or occupancy values have enabled high-fidelity implicit representations of object shape. This paper develops a new shape model that allows synthesizing novel distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehsan Zobeidi , Nikolay Atanasov

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive subjects in realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful capacity of visualization. Actually, the representation of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Omar Elharrouss , Kawther Hassine , Ayman Zayyan , Zakariyae Chatri , Noor almaadeed , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Khalid Abualsaud

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

Learning implicit representations has been a widely used solution for surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds. The latest methods infer a distance or occupancy field by overfitting a neural network on a single point cloud. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Learning to reconstruct depths in a single image by watching unlabeled videos via deep convolutional network (DCN) is attracting significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a surface normal representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Wei Xu , Liang Zhao , Ramakant Nevatia

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yuanzhan Li , Yuqi Liu , Yujie Lu , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai , Yanting Zhang

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han