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Point cloud completion seeks to recover geometrically consistent shapes from partial or sparse 3D observations. Although recent methods have achieved reasonable global shape reconstruction, they often rely on Euclidean proximity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jianan Sun , Dongzhihan Wang , Mingyu Fan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

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

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

We propose a method, named DualMesh-UDF, to extract a surface from unsigned distance functions (UDFs), encoded by neural networks, or neural UDFs. Neural UDFs are becoming increasingly popular for surface representation because of their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Xin Li , Taku Komura , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Normal estimation for 3D point clouds is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. The state-of-the-art methods rely on priors of fitting local surfaces learned from normal supervision. However, normal supervision in benchmarks comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

Solving the challenging problem of 3D object reconstruction from a single image appropriately gives existing technologies the ability to perform with a single monocular camera rather than requiring depth sensors. In recent years, thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Guiju Ping , Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani , Han Wang

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

This paper presents a new method, Diffusing Winding Gradients (DWG), for reconstructing watertight 3D surfaces from unoriented point clouds. Our method exploits the alignment between the gradients of the generalized winding number (GWN)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Weizhou Liu , Jiaze Li , Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Shiqing Xin , Xingce Wang , Zhongke Wu , Chen Qian , Ying He

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

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is vital for 3D computer vision. State-of-the-art methods leverage large datasets to first learn local context priors that are represented as neural network-based signed distance functions (SDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Zhizhong Han

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

This paper explores the problem of reconstructing temporally consistent surfaces from a 3D point cloud sequence without correspondence. To address this challenging task, we propose DynoSurf, an unsupervised learning framework integrating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuxin Yao , Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Zhi Deng , Juyong Zhang , Wenping Wang

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

We present a learning-based approach to reconstruct buildings as 3D polygonal meshes from airborne LiDAR point clouds. What makes 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR hard is the large diversity of building designs and especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yujia Liu , Anton Obukhov , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler