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Explicit neural surface representations allow for exact and efficient extraction of the encoded surface at arbitrary precision, as well as analytic derivation of differential geometric properties such as surface normal and curvature. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Weng Fei Low , Gim Hee Lee

Recently, methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have shown that learning neural implicit surfaces through volume rendering is becoming increasingly popular and making good progress. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hanqi Jiang , Cheng Zeng , Runnan Chen , Shuai Liang , Yinhe Han , Yichao Gao , Conglin Wang

As the most common representation for 3D shapes, mesh is often stored discretely with arrays of vertices and faces. However, 3D shapes in the real world are presented continuously. In this paper, we propose to learn a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhongpai Gao

We propose a novel approach for deformation-aware neural networks that learn the weighting and synthesis of dense volumetric deformation fields. Our method specifically targets the space-time representation of physical surfaces from liquid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Lukas Prantl , Boris Bonev , Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel explicit dense 3D reconstruction approach that processes a set of images of a scene with sensor poses and calibrations and estimates a photo-real digital model. One of the key innovations is that the underlying volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samir Aroudj , Steven Lovegrove , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Michael Goesele , Richard Newcombe

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Jhony K. Pontes , Dominic Jack , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

Road surface reconstruction plays a vital role in autonomous driving systems, enabling road lane perception and high-precision mapping. Recently, neural implicit encoding has achieved remarkable results in scene representation, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Qi Wang , Guangming Wang , Junping Wang , Tiankun Zhao , Yang Liu , Dongchao Gao , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Neural fields have gained significant attention in the computer vision community due to their excellent performance in novel view synthesis, geometry reconstruction, and generative modeling. Some of their advantages are a sound theoretic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Lukas Koestler , Daniel Grittner , Michael Moeller , Daniel Cremers , Zorah Lähner

Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous Deep Implicit Fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Edoardo Remelli , Artem Lukoianov , Stephan R. Richter , Benoît Guillard , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

In this work, we introduce the first unsupervised method that simultaneously predicts time-varying neural implicit surfaces and deformations between pairs of point clouds. We propose to model the point movement using an explicit velocity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vincent Sitzmann , Eric R. Chan , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Gordon Wetzstein

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

We present a technique for dense 3D reconstruction of objects using an imaging sonar, also known as forward-looking sonar (FLS). Compared to previous methods that model the scene geometry as point clouds or volumetric grids, we represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mohamad Qadri , Michael Kaess , Ioannis Gkioulekas

This paper introduces an innovative end-to-end model-based deep learning approach for efficient electromagnetic analysis of high-dimensional frequency selective surfaces (FSS). Unlike traditional data-driven methods that require large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Cheima Hammami , Lucas Polo-López , Luc Le Magoarou

This work is concerned with a representation of shapes that disentangles fine, local and possibly repeating geometry, from global, coarse structures. Achieving such disentanglement leads to two unrelated advantages: i) a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Paul Guerrero , Vladimir G. Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs. Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Peng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Neural fields have emerged as a powerful representation for 3D geometry, enabling compact and continuous modeling of complex shapes. Despite their expressive power, manipulating neural fields in a controlled and accurate manner --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà , Simone Melzi , Zorah Lähner

Recent methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have demonstrated the remarkably high-quality reconstruction of static scenes. However, the training of NeuS takes an extremely long time (8 hours), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yiming Wang , Qin Han , Marc Habermann , Kostas Daniilidis , Christian Theobalt , Lingjie Liu