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State-of-the-art neural implicit surface representations have achieved impressive results in indoor scene reconstruction by incorporating monocular geometric priors as additional supervision. However, we have observed that multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ziyi Chen , Xiaolong Wu , Yu Zhang

Neural shape representation generally refers to representing 3D geometry using neural networks, e.g., computing a signed distance or occupancy value at a specific spatial position. In this paper we present a neural-network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Stefan Rhys Jeske , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels , Jan Bender

We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Real-world objects and environments are predominantly composed of edge features, including straight lines and curves. Such edges are crucial elements for various applications, such as CAD modeling, surface meshing, lane mapping, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lei Li , Songyou Peng , Zehao Yu , Shaohui Liu , Rémi Pautrat , Xiaochuan Yin , Marc Pollefeys

This paper presents Neural Visibility Field (NVF), a novel uncertainty quantification method for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) applied to active mapping. Our key insight is that regions not visible in the training views lead to inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shangjie Xue , Jesse Dill , Pranay Mathur , Frank Dellaert , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Danfei Xu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling framework for scene representation and 3D recovery. To improve its performance on real-world data, depth regularizations have proven to be the most effective ones. However, depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aoxiang Fan , Corentin Dumery , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

Medical image segmentation is often considered as the task of labelling each pixel or voxel as being inside or outside a given anatomy. Processing the images at their original size and resolution often result in insuperable memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Kristine Sørensen , Oscar Camara , Ole de Backer , Klaus Kofoed , Rasmus Paulsen

Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

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

Neural Fields have emerged as a transformative approach for 3D scene representation in computer vision and robotics, enabling accurate inference of geometry, 3D semantics, and dynamics from posed 2D data. Leveraging differentiable…

We present NeRFVS, a novel neural radiance fields (NeRF) based method to enable free navigation in a room. NeRF achieves impressive performance in rendering images for novel views similar to the input views while suffering for novel views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chen Yang , Peihao Li , Zanwei Zhou , Shanxin Yuan , Bingbing Liu , Xiaokang Yang , Weichao Qiu , Wei Shen

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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 networks that map 3D coordinates to signed distance function (SDF) or occupancy values have enabled high-fidelity implicit representations of object shape. This paper develops a new shape model that allows synthesizing novel distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehsan Zobeidi , Nikolay Atanasov

We propose a spatial calibration method for wide Field-of-View (FoV) Near-Eye Displays (NEDs) with complex image distortions. Image distortions in NEDs can destroy the reality of the virtual object and cause sickness. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yuichi Hiroi , Kiyosato Someya , Yuta Itoh

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

Molecules have various computational representations, including numerical descriptors, strings, graphs, point clouds, and surfaces. Each representation method enables the application of various machine learning methodologies from linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jirka Lhotka , Daniel Probst

Recent advances in machine learning have created increasing interest in solving visual computing problems using a class of coordinate-based neural networks that parametrize physical properties of scenes or objects across space and time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yiheng Xie , Towaki Takikawa , Shunsuke Saito , Or Litany , Shiqin Yan , Numair Khan , Federico Tombari , James Tompkin , Vincent Sitzmann , Srinath Sridhar