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In this work, we present an automated workflow to bring human figures, one of the most frequently appearing entities on pictorial maps, to the third dimension. Our workflow is based on training data and neural networks for single-view 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Raimund Schnürer , A. Cengiz Öztireli , Magnus Heitzler , René Sieber , Lorenz Hurni

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang

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

We address the problem of clothed human reconstruction from a single image or uncalibrated multi-view images. Existing methods struggle with reconstructing detailed geometry of a clothed human and often require a calibrated setting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Compositional implicit surface representations model scenes as collections of objects, each encoded by a Signed Distance Field (SDF). A fundamental limitation of this approach is that multiple SDFs can produce geometries that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deniz Sayin Mercadier , Federico Stella , Aurel Bizeau , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

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

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

The medial axis, a lower-dimensional descriptor that captures the extrinsic structure of a shape, plays an important role in digital geometry processing. Despite its importance, computing the medial axis transform robustly from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Jun Luo , Shiqing Xin , Fei Hou , Hanqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Ying He

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

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 propose a novel 3D spatial representation for data fusion and scene reconstruction. Probabilistic Signed Distance Function (Probabilistic SDF, PSDF) is proposed to depict uncertainties in the 3D space. It is modeled by a joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wei Dong , Qiuyuan Wang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

Implicit representations of geometry, such as occupancy fields or signed distance fields (SDF), have recently re-gained popularity in encoding 3D solid shape in a functional form. In this work, we introduce medial fields: a field function…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Rebain , Ke Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Soroosh Yazdani , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Accurate and dense mapping in large-scale environments is essential for various robot applications. Recently, implicit neural signed distance fields (SDFs) have shown promising advances in this task. However, most existing approaches employ…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shuangfu Song , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

We present a novel deep learning-based approach to the 3D reconstruction of clothed humans using weak supervision via 2D normal maps. Given a single RGB image or multiview images, our network infers a signed distance function (SDF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jane Wu , Diego Thomas , Ronald Fedkiw

Accurate 3D shape representation is essential in engineering applications such as design, optimization, and simulation. In practice, engineering workflows require structured, part-based representations, as objects are inherently designed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Talabot , Olivier Clerc , Arda Cinar Demirtas , Alexis Goujon , Hieu Le , Doruk Oner , Pascal Fua

Implicit neural representations map a shape-specific latent code and a 3D coordinate to its corresponding signed distance (SDF) value. However, this approach only offers a single level of detail. Emulating low levels of detail can be…

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