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Autonomous robots should operate in real-world dynamic environments and collaborate with humans in tight spaces. A key component for allowing robots to leave structured lab and manufacturing settings is their ability to evaluate online and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Puze Liu , Kuo Zhang , Davide Tateo , Snehal Jauhri , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Reconstructing 3D vehicles from noisy and sparse partial point clouds is of great significance to autonomous driving. Most existing 3D reconstruction methods cannot be directly applied to this problem because they are elaborately designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yibo Liu , Kelly Zhu , Guile Wu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu , Yang Liu , Jinjun Shan

We present SurfCut, an algorithm for extracting a smooth, simple surface with an unknown 3D curve boundary from a noisy 3D image and a seed point. Our method is built on the novel observation that certain ridge curves of a function defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Marei Algarni , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

Object completion networks typically produce static Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) that faithfully reconstruct geometry but cannot be rescaled or deformed without introducing structural distortions. This limitation restricts their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jelle Vermandere , Maarten Bassier , Maarten Vergauwen

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

Implicit surface representations such as the signed distance function (SDF) have emerged as a promising approach for image-based surface reconstruction. However, existing optimization methods assume solid surfaces and are therefore unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tianhao Wu , Hanxue Liang , Fangcheng Zhong , Gernot Riegler , Shimon Vainer , Jiankang Deng , Cengiz Oztireli

This paper focuses on camouflaged object detection (COD), which is a task to detect objects hidden in the background. Most of the current COD models aim to highlight the target object directly while outputting ambiguous camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Nobukatsu Kajiura , Hong Liu , Shin'ichi Satoh

Surface reconstruction from a set of scattered points, or a point cloud, has many applications ranging from computer graphics to remote sensing. We present a new method for this task that produces an implicit surface (zero-level set)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Kathryn P. Drake , Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

We introduce a dual contouring method that provides state-of-the-art performance for occupancy functions while achieving computation times of a few seconds. Our method is learning-free and carefully designed to maximize the use of GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jisung Hwang , Minhyuk Sung

Geodesic distance is the shortest path between two points in a Riemannian manifold. Manifold learning algorithms, such as Isomap, seek to learn a manifold that preserves geodesic distances. However, such methods operate on the ambient…

Learning-based isosurface extraction methods have recently emerged as a robust and efficient alternative to axiomatic techniques. However, the vast majority of such approaches rely on supervised training with axiomatically computed ground…

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We present a novel two-view geometry estimation framework which is based on a differentiable robust loss function fitting. We propose to treat the robust fundamental matrix estimation as an implicit layer, which allows us to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Vladislav Pyatov , Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis

Mesh offsetting plays an important role in discrete geometric processing. In this paper, we propose a parallel feature-preserving mesh offsetting framework with variable distance. Different from the traditional method based on distance and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Hongyi Cao , Gang Xu , Renshu Gu , Jinlan Xu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Timon Rabczuk

We introduce a novel offset meshing approach that can robustly handle a 3D surface mesh with an arbitrary geometry and topology configurations, while nicely capturing the sharp features on the original input for both inward and outward…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hongyi Cao , Gang Xu , Renshu Gu , Jinlan Xu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Timon Rabczuk , Yuzhe Luo , Xifeng Gao

3D object-level mapping is a fundamental problem in robotics, which is especially challenging when object CAD models are unavailable during inference. In this work, we propose a framework that can reconstruct high-quality object-level maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ziwei Liao , Jun Yang , Jingxing Qian , Angela P. Schoellig , Steven L. Waslander

This paper presents a deep normal filtering network, called DNF-Net, for mesh denoising. To better capture local geometry, our network processes the mesh in terms of local patches extracted from the mesh. Overall, DNF-Net is an end-to-end…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Xianzhi Li , Ruihui Li , Lei Zhu , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Restoring the original, flat appearance of a printed document from casual photographs of bent and wrinkled pages is a common everyday problem. In this paper we propose a novel method for grid-based single-image document unwarping. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Floor Verhoeven , Tanguy Magne , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

Despite recent advances in reconstructing an organic model with the neural signed distance function (SDF), the high-fidelity reconstruction of a CAD model directly from low-quality unoriented point clouds remains a significant challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qiujie Dong , Rui Xu , Pengfei Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Xiaohong Jia , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

Edge detection is a fundamental technique in various computer vision tasks. Edges are indeed effectively delineated by pixel discontinuity and can offer reliable structural information even in textureless areas. State-of-the-art heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Leng Kai , Zhang Zhijie , Liu Jie , Zed Boukhers , Sui Wei , Cong Yang , Li Zhijun