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It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Signed distance-radiance field (SDF-NeRF) is a promising environment representation that offers both photo-realistic rendering and geometric reasoning such as proximity queries for collision avoidance. However, the slow training speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Runfa Blark Li , Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

Simulating large scenes with many rigid objects is crucial for a variety of applications, such as robotics, engineering, film and video games. Rigid interactions are notoriously hard to model: small changes to the initial state or the…

Presenting a 3D scene from multiview images remains a core and long-standing challenge in computer vision and computer graphics. Two main requirements lie in rendering and reconstruction. Notably, SOTA rendering quality is usually achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mulin Yu , Tao Lu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yuanbo Xiangli , Bo Dai

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Plane Geometry Diagram Synthesis has been a crucial task in computer graphics, with applications ranging from educational tools to AI-driven mathematical reasoning. Traditionally, we rely on manual tools (e.g., Matplotlib and GeoGebra) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chengrui Zhang , Maizhen Ning , Tianyi Liu , Zihao Zhou , Jie Sun , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang

Localization of a robotic system within a previously mapped environment is important for reducing estimation drift and for reusing previously built maps. Existing techniques for geometry-based localization have focused on the description of…

We consider the problem of tracking the 6D pose of a moving RGB-D camera in a neural scene representation. Different such representations have recently emerged, and we investigate the suitability of them for the task of camera tracking. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Leonard Bruns , Fereidoon Zangeneh , Patric Jensfelt

Accurate mapping and localization are very important for many industrial robotics applications. In this paper, we propose an improved Signed Distance Function (SDF) for both 2D SLAM and pure localization to improve the accuracy of mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xingyin Fu , Zheng Fang , Xizhen Xiao , Yijia He , Xiao Liu

We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang

Reconstructing hand-held objects from a single RGB image is an important and challenging problem. Existing works utilizing Signed Distance Fields (SDF) reveal limitations in comprehensively capturing the complex hand-object interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenyangguang Zhang , Yan Di , Ruida Zhang , Guangyao Zhai , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Xiangyang Ji

Embodied intelligence requires precise reconstruction and rendering to simulate large-scale real-world data. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated high-quality results with real-time performance, it still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodong Xiang , Xinghui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiansong Lai , Wanting Zhang , Zhichao Liao , Long Zeng , Xueping Liu

We propose a method to interpolate Signed Distance Function (SDF) data from a discrete set of samples. Unlike prior work, our approach ensures that the new SDF data values are fully consistent with the input and each other, such that the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Letao Chen , Sanju Mupparaju , Christopher Batty , Silvia Sellán , Oded Stein

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

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