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We introduce a novel approach for the reconstruction of tubular shapes from skeletal representations. Our method processes all skeletal points as a whole, eliminating the need for splitting input structure into multiple segments. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guoqing Zhang , Yang Li

The ability to process environment maps across multiple sessions is critical for robots operating over extended periods of time. Specifically, it is desirable for autonomous agents to detect changes amongst maps of different sessions so as…

Deep learning applied to the reconstruction of 3D shapes has seen growing interest. A popular approach to 3D reconstruction and generation in recent years has been the CNN encoder-decoder model usually applied in voxel space. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Eugene Belilovsky , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

Neural rendering can be used to reconstruct implicit representations of shapes without 3D supervision. However, current neural surface reconstruction methods have difficulty learning high-frequency geometry details, so the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yiqun Wang , Ivan Skorokhodov , Peter Wonka

Recent advances have enabled 3d object reconstruction approaches using a single off-the-shelf RGB-D camera. Although these approaches are successful for a wide range of object classes, they rely on stable and distinctive geometric or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Dimitrios Tzionas , Juergen Gall

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

Our work aims to reconstruct hand-held objects given a single RGB image. In contrast to prior works that typically assume known 3D templates and reduce the problem to 3D pose estimation, our work reconstructs generic hand-held object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yufei Ye , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

It is vital to infer signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds. The latest methods rely on generalizing the priors learned from large scale supervision. However, the learned priors do not generalize well to various geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ningna Wang , Xiana Carrera , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

Due to the unique characteristics of underwater environments, accurate 3D reconstruction of underwater objects poses a challenging problem in tasks such as underwater exploration and mapping. Traditional methods that rely on multiple sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zeyu Chen , Jingyi Tang , Gu Wang , Shengquan Li , Xinghui Li , Xiangyang Ji , Xiu Li

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have driven impressive progress in view synthesis by using ray-traced volumetric rendering. Splatting-based methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provide faster rendering by rasterizing 3D primitives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Antonella Rech , Nicola Conci , Nicola Garau

Reconstructing a 3D hand from a single-view RGB image is challenging due to various hand configurations and depth ambiguity. To reliably reconstruct a 3D hand from a monocular image, most state-of-the-art methods heavily rely on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yujin Chen , Zhigang Tu , Di Kang , Linchao Bao , Ying Zhang , Xuefei Zhe , Ruizhi Chen , Junsong Yuan

Indoor scenes we are living in are visually homogenous or textureless, while they inherently have structural forms and provide enough structural priors for 3D scene reconstruction. Motivated by this fact, we propose a structure-aware online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jaehoon Jang , Inha Lee , Minje Kim , Kyungdon Joo

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Recovering 3D object pose and shape from a single image is a challenging and ill-posed problem. This is due to strong (self-)occlusions, depth ambiguities, the vast intra- and inter-class shape variance, and the lack of 3D ground truth for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dimitrije Antić , Georgios Paschalidis , Shashank Tripathi , Theo Gevers , Sai Kumar Dwivedi , Dimitrios Tzionas

Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muzammal Shafique , Nasir Rahim , Jamil Ahmad , Mohammad Siadat , Khalid Malik , Ghaus Malik

As commonly used implicit geometry representations, the signed distance function (SDF) is limited to modeling watertight shapes, while the unsigned distance function (UDF) is capable of representing various surfaces. However, its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanxiang Yang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Guangshun Wei , Long Ma , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang