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Implicit neural representations are powerful for geometric modeling, but their practical use is often limited by the high computational cost of network evaluations. We observe that implicit representations require progressively lower…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chuanxiang Yang , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Siyu Ren , Guangshun Wei , Taku Komura , Yuanfeng Zhou , Wenping Wang

The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Image reconstruction is an inverse problem that solves for a computational image based on sampled sensor measurement. Sparsely sampled image reconstruction poses addition challenges due to limited measurements. In this work, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Liyue Shen , John Pauly , Lei Xing

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

Reconstructing high-quality 3D objects from sparse, partial observations from a single view is of crucial importance for various applications in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. While recent neural implicit modeling methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shivam Duggal , Zihao Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Justin Liang , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Surface extraction from implicit neural representations modelling a single class surface is a well-known task. However, there exist no surface extraction methods from an implicit representation of multiple classes that guarantee topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jash Vira , Andrew Myers , Simon Ratcliffe

Implicit neural representations have shown promising potential for the 3D scene reconstruction. Recent work applies it to autonomous 3D reconstruction by learning information gain for view path planning. Effective as it is, the computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jing Zeng , Yanxu Li , Yunlong Ran , Shuo Li , Fei Gao , Lincheng Li , Shibo He , Jiming chen , Qi Ye

Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

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

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

Neural implicit representations have shown substantial improvements in efficiently storing 3D data, when compared to conventional formats. However, the focus of existing work has mainly been on storage and subsequent reconstruction. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Theo W. Costain , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

Robotic grasping of house-hold objects has made remarkable progress in recent years. Yet, human grasps are still difficult to synthesize realistically. There are several key reasons: (1) the human hand has many degrees of freedom (more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Jinlong Yang , Yan Zhang , Michael Black , Krikamol Muandet , Siyu Tang

We present a novel 3D mapping method leveraging the recent progress in neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. Most existing state-of-the-art neural implicit representation methods are limited to object-level reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Stefan Lionar , Lukas Schmid , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Andrei Cramariuc

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

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