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While Signed Distance Fields (SDF) are well-established for modeling watertight surfaces, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDF) broaden the scope to include open surfaces and models with complex inner structures. Despite their flexibility, UDFs…

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Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

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Localization of a robotic system within a previously mapped environment is important for reducing estimation drift and for reusing previously built maps. Existing techniques for geometry-based localization have focused on the description of…

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) for surface representation are commonly generated offline and subsequently loaded into interactive applications like games. Since they are not updated every frame, they only provide a rigid surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

In this work, we propose a novel approach to represent robot geometry as distance fields (RDF) that extends the principle of signed distance fields (SDFs) to articulated kinematic chains. Our method employs a combination of Bernstein…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiming Li , Yan Zhang , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

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

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…

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This work proposes an optimization-based manipulation planning framework where the objectives are learned functionals of signed-distance fields that represent objects in the scene. Most manipulation planning approaches rely on analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Danny Driess , Jung-Su Ha , Marc Toussaint , Russ Tedrake

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…

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Ensuring safety and robustness of robot skills is becoming crucial as robots are required to perform increasingly complex and dynamic tasks. The former is essential when performing tasks in cluttered environments, while the latter is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ken-Joel Simmoteit , Philipp Schillinger , Leonel Rozo

Implicit reconstruction of ESDF (Euclidean Signed Distance Field) involves training a neural network to regress the signed distance from any point to the nearest obstacle, which has the advantages of lightweight storage and continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yufeng Yue , Yinan Deng , Jiahui Wang , Yi Yang

We introduce a novel approach for rendering static and dynamic 3D neural signed distance functions (SDF) in real-time. We rely on nested neighborhoods of zero-level sets of neural SDFs, and mappings between them. This framework supports…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vinícius da Silva , Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Hélio Lopes , Luiz Velho

We introduce a new generative approach for synthesizing 3D geometry and images from single-view collections. Most existing approaches predict volumetric density to render multi-view consistent images. By employing volumetric rendering using…

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Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) are a fundamental representation in robot motion planning. Their configuration-space counterpart, the Configuration Space Distance Field (CDF), directly encodes distances in joint space, offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mengzhu Li , Yunyu Zhou , He Ying , F. Richard Yu

This study addresses the partial-to-complete geometry reconstruction of deformable objects (DOs) from point-cloud observations toward precise DO manipulation. Recent DO reconstruction approaches often adopt implicit neural representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deokmin Hwang , Minseok Song , Daehyung Park

Surface reconstruction from multi-view images is a core challenge in 3D vision. Recent studies have explored signed distance fields (SDF) within Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstructions. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Jiaze Li , Ying He

The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qianyi Wu , Xian Liu , Yuedong Chen , Kejie Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Mobile robots require comprehensive scene understanding to operate effectively in diverse environments, enriched with contextual information such as layouts, objects, and their relationships. Although advances like neural radiation fields…

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The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based volume rendering has demonstrated significant capabilities in surface reconstruction. Although promising, SDF-based methods often fail to capture detailed geometric structures, resulting in visible…

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