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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

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

Recently, neural implicit surfaces learning by volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. However, one key challenge remains: existing approaches lack explicit multi-view geometry constraints, hence usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Qiancheng Fu , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao

In this paper, we investigate a new optimization framework for multi-view 3D shape reconstructions. Recent differentiable rendering approaches have provided breakthrough performances with implicit shape representations though they can still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Pierre Zins , Yuanlu Xu , Edmond Boyer , Stefanie Wuhrer , Tony Tung

We present Surf-NeRF, a modified implementation of the recently introduced Shadow Neural Radiance Field (S-NeRF) model. This method is able to synthesize novel views from a sparse set of satellite images of a scene, while accounting for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Federico Semeraro , Yi Zhang , Wenying Wu , Patrick Carroll

Online reconstructing and rendering of large-scale indoor scenes is a long-standing challenge. SLAM-based methods can reconstruct 3D scene geometry progressively in real time but can not render photorealistic results. While NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yiming Gao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

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

In this paper, we present an implicit surface reconstruction method with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), namely 3DGSR, that allows for accurate 3D reconstruction with intricate details while inheriting the high efficiency and rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Xiaoyang Lyu , Yang-Tian Sun , Yi-Hua Huang , Xiuzhe Wu , Ziyi Yang , Yilun Chen , Jiangmiao Pang , Xiaojuan Qi

Neural 3D scene representations have shown great potential for 3D reconstruction from 2D images. However, reconstructing real-world captures of complex scenes still remains a challenge. Existing generic 3D reconstruction methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fangjinhua Wang , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Niemeyer , Richard Szeliski , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method called NeuralRoom for reconstructing room-sized indoor scenes directly from a set of 2D images. Recently, implicit neural representations have become a promising way to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yusen Wang , Zongcheng Li , Yu Jiang , Kaixuan Zhou , Tuo Cao , Yanping Fu , Chunxia Xiao

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

State-of-the-art neural implicit surface representations have achieved impressive results in indoor scene reconstruction by incorporating monocular geometric priors as additional supervision. However, we have observed that multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ziyi Chen , Xiaolong Wu , Yu Zhang

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

The reconstruction of object surfaces from multi-view images or monocular video is a fundamental issue in computer vision. However, much of the recent research concentrates on reconstructing geometry through implicit or explicit methods. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Licheng Zhong , Lixin Yang , Kailin Li , Haoyu Zhen , Mei Han , Cewu Lu

This article presents a novel undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that leverages the concept of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). With radial undersampling, the corresponding imaging problem can be reformulated into an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Tae Jun Jang , Chang Min Hyun

Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a popular method in representing 3D scenes by optimising a continuous volumetric scene function. Its large success which lies in applying volumetric rendering (VR) is also its Achilles' heel in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhe Jun Tang , Tat-Jen Cham , Haiyu Zhao

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

We present a neural rendering-based method called NeRO for reconstructing the geometry and the BRDF of reflective objects from multiview images captured in an unknown environment. Multiview reconstruction of reflective objects is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiepeng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang