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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

In this work, we employ neural fields, which use neural networks to map a coordinate to the corresponding physical property value at that coordinate, in a test-time learning manner. For a test-time learning method, the weights are learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Anran Xu , Lindsey J. Heagy

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable performance improvements on vision-related tasks such as object detection or image segmentation. Despite their success, they generally lack the understanding of 3D objects which form the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hiroharu Kato , Deniz Beker , Mihai Morariu , Takahiro Ando , Toru Matsuoka , Wadim Kehl , Adrien Gaidon

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

While both shape and texture are fundamental to visual recognition, research on deep neural networks (DNNs) has predominantly focused on the latter, leaving their geometric understanding poorly probed. Here, we show: first, that optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jian Wang , Yixing Yong , Haixia Bi , Lijun He , Fan Li

Obtaining personalized 3D animatable avatars from a monocular camera has several real world applications in gaming, virtual try-on, animation, and VR/XR, etc. However, it is very challenging to model dynamic and fine-grained clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuxuan Xue , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Riccardo Marin , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Yuanlu Xu , Gerard Pons-Moll , Tony Tung

Neural fields, also known as implicit neural representations (INRs), have shown a remarkable capability of representing, generating, and manipulating various data types, allowing for continuous data reconstruction at a low memory footprint.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Ahmed Ghorbel , Wassim Hamidouche , Luce Morin

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

Geodesics are essential in many geometry processing applications. However, traditional algorithms for computing geodesic distances and paths on 3D mesh models are often inefficient and slow. This makes them impractical for scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Deep Implicit Functions (DIFs) have gained popularity in 3D computer vision due to their compactness and continuous representation capabilities. However, addressing dense correspondences and semantic relationships across DIF-encoded shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Kun Han , Shanlin Sun , Xiaohui Xie

Discovering novel classes in open-world settings is crucial for real-world applications. Traditional explicit representations, such as object descriptors or 3D segmentation maps, are constrained by their discrete, hole-prone, and noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junming Wang , Yi Shi

While many works focus on 3D reconstruction from images, in this paper, we focus on 3D shape reconstruction and completion from a variety of 3D inputs, which are deficient in some respect: low and high resolution voxels, sparse and dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Julian Chibane , Thiemo Alldieck , Gerard Pons-Moll

\textit{Implicit neural representations} (INRs) have emerged as a promising framework for representing signals in low-dimensional spaces. This survey reviews the existing literature on the specialized INR problem of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luiz Schirmer , Tiago Novello , Vinícius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Daniel Perazzo , Hélio Lopes , Nuno Gonçalves , Luiz Velho

While remarkable success has been achieved through diffusion-based 3D generative models for shapes, 4D generative modeling remains challenging due to the complexity of object deformations over time. We propose DNF, a new 4D representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Xinyi Zhang , Naiqi Li , Angela Dai

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Neural implicit shape representation has drawn significant attention in recent years due to its smoothness, differentiability, and topological flexibility. However, directly modeling the shape of a neural implicit surface, especially as the…

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

Implicit surface representations, such as signed-distance functions, combined with deep learning have led to impressive models which can represent detailed shapes of objects with arbitrary topology. Since a continuous function is learned,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Edgar Tretschk , Ayush Tewari , Vladislav Golyanik , Michael Zollhöfer , Carsten Stoll , Christian Theobalt

Implicit representations of geometry, such as occupancy fields or signed distance fields (SDF), have recently re-gained popularity in encoding 3D solid shape in a functional form. In this work, we introduce medial fields: a field function…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Rebain , Ke Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Soroosh Yazdani , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi