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We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

We propose a novel method to reconstruct the 3D shapes of transparent objects using hand-held captured images under natural light conditions. It combines the advantage of explicit mesh and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network, a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jiamin Xu , Zihan Zhu , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

We introduce a novel neural representation for maps between 3D shapes based on flow-matching models, which is computationally efficient and supports cross-representation shape matching without large-scale training or data-driven procedures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lorenzo Olearo , Giulio Viganò , Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Simone Melzi

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

We introduce a novel neural network architecture for encoding and synthesis of 3D shapes, particularly their structures. Our key insight is that 3D shapes are effectively characterized by their hierarchical organization of parts, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Jun Li , Kai Xu , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Ersin Yumer , Hao Zhang , Leonidas Guibas

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

We present a novel technique for implicit neural representation of light fields at continuously defined viewpoints with high quality and fidelity. Our implicit neural representation maps 4D coordinates defining two-plane parameterization of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Süleyman Aslan , Brandon Yushan Feng , Amitabh Varshney

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Shape completion, a crucial task in 3D computer vision, involves predicting and filling the missing regions of scanned or partially observed objects. Current methods expect known pose or canonical coordinates and do not perform well under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Burak Bekci , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari , Mahdi Saleh

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 new approach to 3D object representation where a neural network encodes the geometry of an object directly into the weights and biases of a second 'mapping' network. This mapping network can be used to reconstruct an object by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Eric Mitchell , Selim Engin , Volkan Isler , Daniel D Lee

Edge detection remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, especially under varying illumination, noise, and complex scene conditions. This paper introduces a Hybrid Multi-Stage Learning Framework that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Mark Phil Pacot , Jayno Juventud , Gleen Dalaorao

Geodesics are essential in many geometry processing applications. However, traditional algorithms for computing geodesic distances and paths on 3D mesh models are often inefficient and slow. This makes them impractical for scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma , Wenping Wang , Ying He

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this paper, we develop novel, efficient 2D encodings for 3D geometry, which enable reconstructing full 3D shapes from a single image at high resolution. The key idea is to pose 3D shape reconstruction as a 2D prediction problem. To that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Stephan R. Richter , Stefan Roth

We introduce an unsupervised technique for encoding point clouds into a canonical shape representation, by disentangling shape and pose. Our encoder is stable and consistent, meaning that the shape encoding is purely pose-invariant, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Oren Katzir , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

Neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results for reconstructing 3D shapes from single images. However, the image features for describing 3D point samplings of implicit functions are less effective when significant variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yixin Zhuang , Yunzhe Liu , Yujie Wang , Baoquan Chen

High fidelity representation of shapes with arbitrary topology is an important problem for a variety of vision and graphics applications. Owing to their limited resolution, classical discrete shape representations using point clouds, voxels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Rahul Venkatesh , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , Laszlo Jeni , Maneesh Singh