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It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

We propose SDFDiff, a novel approach for image-based shape optimization using differentiable rendering of 3D shapes represented by signed distance functions (SDFs). Compared to other representations, SDFs have the advantage that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yue Jiang , Dantong Ji , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

This paper presents a novel post-processing methodology for extracting high-quality geometries from density-based topology optimization results. Current post-processing approaches often struggle to simultaneously achieve smooth boundaries,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ondřej Ježek , Ján Kopačka , Martin Isoz , Dušan Gabriel , Pavel Maršálek , Martin Šotola , Radim Halama

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

Text-guided scalable vector graphics (SVG) synthesis has broad applications in icon and sketch generation. However, existing text-to-SVG methods often suffer from limited editability, suboptimal visual quality, and low sample diversity. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ximing Xing , Haitao Zhou , Chuang Wang , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

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

Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) are vital implicit representations to represent high fidelity 3D surfaces. Current methods mainly leverage a neural network to learn an SDF from various supervisions including signed distances, 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present learning-based implicit shape representations designed for real-time avatar collision queries arising in the simulation of clothing. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have been used for such queries for many years due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Osman Akar , Yushan Han , Yizhou Chen , Weixian Lan , Benn Gallagher , Ronald Fedkiw , Joseph Teran

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

The challenge of automatically synthesizing high-quality vector fonts, particularly for writing systems (e.g., Chinese) consisting of huge amounts of complex glyphs, remains unsolved. Existing font synthesis techniques fall into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hua Li , Zhouhui Lian

We present a StyleGAN2-based deep learning approach for 3D shape generation, called SDF-StyleGAN, with the aim of reducing visual and geometric dissimilarity between generated shapes and a shape collection. We extend StyleGAN2 to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Xin-Yang Zheng , Yang Liu , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong

We present VecFusion, a new neural architecture that can generate vector fonts with varying topological structures and precise control point positions. Our approach is a cascaded diffusion model which consists of a raster diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vikas Thamizharasan , Difan Liu , Shantanu Agarwal , Matthew Fisher , Michael Gharbi , Oliver Wang , Alec Jacobson , Evangelos Kalogerakis

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

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are an essential format for technical illustration and digital design, offering precise resolution independence and flexible semantic editability. In practice, however, original vector source files are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qijia He , Xunmei Liu , Hammaad Memon , Ziang Li , Zixian Ma , Jaemin Cho , Jason Ren , Daniel S Weld , Ranjay Krishna

With the rising industrial attention to 3D virtual modeling technology, generating novel 3D content based on specified conditions (e.g. text) has become a hot issue. In this paper, we propose a new generative 3D modeling framework called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Muheng Li , Yueqi Duan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Font synthesis has been a very active topic in recent years because manual font design requires domain expertise and is a labor-intensive and time-consuming job. While remarkably successful, existing methods for font synthesis have major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ammar Ul Hassan Muhammad , Jaeyoung Choi

We extend the recently proposed sparse voxel rasterization paradigm to the task of high-fidelity surface reconstruction by integrating Signed Distance Function (SDF), named SVRecon. Unlike 3D Gaussians, sparse voxels are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Seunghun Oh , Jaesung Choe , Dongjae Lee , Daeun Lee , Seunghoon Jeong , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Jaesik Park

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

We investigate the performance of a simple signed distance function (SDF) based method by direct comparison with standard SVM packages, as well as K-nearest neighbor and RBFN methods. We present experimental results comparing the SDF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-17 Erik M. Boczko , Todd Young , Minhui Zie , Di Wu