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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

Recent history has seen a tremendous growth of work exploring implicit representations of geometry and radiance, popularized through Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Such works are fundamentally based on a (implicit) volumetric representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jason Y. Zhang , Gengshan Yang , Shubham Tulsiani , Deva Ramanan

Neural reconstruction and rendering strategies have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances due, in part, to their ability to preserve high level shape details. Existing approaches, however, either represent objects as implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Angtian Wang , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Edmond Boyer , Alan Yuille , Tony Tung

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

Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods seek to represent objects as semantically consistent part arrangements. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos , Andreas Geiger , Sanja Fidler

Recent research on learnable neural representations has been widely adopted in the field of 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering applications. However, traditional feature grid representations often suffer from substantial memory…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Su , Honghao Dong , Haojie Jin , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Obtaining personalized 3D animatable avatars from a monocular camera has several real world applications in gaming, virtual try-on, animation, and VR/XR, etc. However, it is very challenging to model dynamic and fine-grained clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuxuan Xue , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Riccardo Marin , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Yuanlu Xu , Gerard Pons-Moll , Tony Tung

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

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

Neural fields such as implicit surfaces have recently enabled avatar modeling from raw scans without explicit temporal correspondences. In this work, we exploit autoregressive modeling to further extend this notion to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ziqian Bai , Timur Bagautdinov , Javier Romero , Michael Zollhöfer , Ping Tan , Shunsuke Saito

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

Photo-realistic free-viewpoint rendering of real-world scenes using classical computer graphics techniques is challenging, because it requires the difficult step of capturing detailed appearance and geometry models. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lingjie Liu , Jiatao Gu , Kyaw Zaw Lin , Tat-Seng Chua , Christian Theobalt

Compressed representations of 3D shapes that are compact, accurate, and can be processed efficiently directly in compressed form, are extremely useful for digital media applications. Recent approaches in this space focus on learned implicit…

Efficiently digitizing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from videos is a challenging and active research topic. Recent volume rendering-based neural representations open a new way for human digitization with their friendly usability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoke Huang , Yiji Cheng , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

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

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Neural implicit shape representation has drawn significant attention in recent years due to its smoothness, differentiability, and topological flexibility. However, directly modeling the shape of a neural implicit surface, especially as the…

Neural networks have recently been used to analyze diverse physical systems and to identify the underlying dynamics. While existing methods achieve impressive results, they are limited by their strong demand for training data and their weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Florian Hofherr , Lukas Koestler , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

Precise representations of 3D faces are beneficial to various computer vision and graphics applications. Due to the data discretization and model linearity, however, it remains challenging to capture accurate identity and expression clues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Mingwu Zheng , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Liming Chen

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