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Surface normal estimation serves as a cornerstone for a spectrum of computer vision applications. While numerous efforts have been devoted to static image scenarios, ensuring temporal coherence in video-based normal estimation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yanrui Bin , Wenbo Hu , Haoyuan Wang , Xinya Chen , Bing Wang

Modern scene reconstruction methods are able to accurately recover 3D surfaces that are visible in one or more images. However, this leads to incomplete reconstructions, missing all occluded surfaces. While much progress has been made on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Sam Bahrami , Dylan Campbell

A classical problem in computer vision is to infer a 3D scene representation from few images that can be used to render novel views at interactive rates. Previous work focuses on reconstructing pre-defined 3D representations, e.g. textured…

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Constructing 3D representations of object geometry is critical for many robotics tasks, particularly manipulation problems. These representations must be built from potentially noisy partial observations. In this work, we focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Herbert Wright , Weiming Zhi , Martin Matak , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Tucker Hermans

We present a method that synthesizes novel views of complex scenes by interpolating a sparse set of nearby views. The core of our method is a network architecture that includes a multilayer perceptron and a ray transformer that estimates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Qianqian Wang , Zhicheng Wang , Kyle Genova , Pratul Srinivasan , Howard Zhou , Jonathan T. Barron , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Noah Snavely , Thomas Funkhouser

We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

We present an approach to infer a layer-structured 3D representation of a scene from a single input image. This allows us to infer not only the depth of the visible pixels, but also to capture the texture and depth for content in the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Shubham Tulsiani , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely

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

The modern computer graphics pipeline can synthesize images at remarkable visual quality; however, it requires well-defined, high-quality 3D content as input. In this work, we explore the use of imperfect 3D content, for instance, obtained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

Clustering is essential to many tasks in pattern recognition and computer vision. With the advent of deep learning, there is an increasing interest in learning deep unsupervised representations for clustering analysis. Many works on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Caglar Aytekin , Xingyang Ni , Francesco Cricri , Emre Aksu

Neural rendering with implicit neural networks has recently emerged as an attractive proposition for scene reconstruction, achieving excellent quality albeit at high computational cost. While the most recent generation of such methods has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Rui Li , Darius Rückert , Yuanhao Wang , Ramzi Idoughi , Wolfgang Heidrich

Representing scenes with multiple semi-transparent colored layers has been a popular and successful choice for real-time novel view synthesis. Existing approaches infer colors and transparency values over regularly-spaced layers of planar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Taras Khakhulin , Denis Korzhenkov , Pavel Solovev , Gleb Sterkin , Timotei Ardelean , Victor Lempitsky

Scene classification is a fundamental perception task for environmental understanding in today's robotics. In this paper, we have attempted to exploit the use of popular machine learning technique of deep learning to enhance scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Yiyi Liao , Sarath Kodagoda , Yue Wang , Lei Shi , Yong Liu

Recent advances have enabled a single neural network to serve as an implicit scene representation, establishing the mapping function between spatial coordinates and scene properties. In this paper, we make a further step towards continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zike Yan , Yuxin Tian , Xuesong Shi , Ping Guo , Peng Wang , Hongbin Zha

Scene understanding plays an important role in several high-level computer vision applications, such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent video surveillance, or robotics. However, too few solutions have been proposed for indoor/outdoor scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ayman Beghdadi , Azeddine Beghdadi , Mohib Ullah , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh , Malik Mallem

We study inferring 3D object-centric scene representations from a single image. While recent methods have shown potential in unsupervised 3D object discovery from simple synthetic images, they fail to generalize to real-world scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Rundong Luo , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

Encoding 3D points is one of the primary steps in learning-based implicit scene representation. Using features that gather information from neighbors with multi-resolution grids has proven to be the best geometric encoder for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Arihant Gaur , G. Dias Pais , Pedro Miraldo

6-DoF pose estimation is an essential component of robotic manipulation pipelines. However, it usually suffers from a lack of generalization to new instances and object types. Most widely used methods learn to infer the object pose in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Vaibhav Saxena , Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Linh Tran , Yotto Koga