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Reconstructing geometric shapes from point clouds is a common task that is often accomplished by experts manually modeling geometries in CAD-capable software. State-of-the-art workflows based on fully automatic geometry extraction are…

3D shape reconstruction is essential in the navigation of minimally-invasive and auto robot-guided surgeries whose operating environments are indirect and narrow, and there have been some works that focused on reconstructing the 3D shape of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Bowen Hu , Baiying Lei , Shuqiang Wang , Yong Liu , Bingchuan Wang , Min Gan , Yanyan Shen

Currently it requires an artist to create 3D human avatars with realistic clothing that can move naturally. Despite progress on 3D scanning and modeling of human bodies, there is still no technology that can easily turn a static scan into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Qianli Ma , Jinlong Yang , Siyu Tang , Michael J. Black

Both humans and deep learning models can recognize objects from 3D shapes depicted with sparse visual information, such as a set of points randomly sampled from the surfaces of 3D objects (termed a point cloud). Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuhao Fu , Philip J. Kellman , Hongjing Lu

Monocular 3D clothed human reconstruction aims to create a complete 3D avatar from a single image. To tackle the human geometry lacking in one RGB image, current methods typically resort to a preceding model for an explicit geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Wenhao Shen , Jian Shu , Hao Wang

A key question in the problem of 3D reconstruction is how to train a machine or a robot to model 3D objects. Many tasks like navigation in real-time systems such as autonomous vehicles directly depend on this problem. These systems usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 AmirHossein Zamani , Amir G. Aghdam , Kamran Ghaffari T

Reconstructing textured 3D human models from a single image is fundamental for AR/VR and digital human applications. However, existing methods mostly focus on single individuals and thus fail in multi-human scenes, where naive composition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gwanghyun Kim , Junghun James Kim , Suh Yoon Jeon , Jason Park , Se Young Chun

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) is the task of locating keypoints of the human body in 3D space from 2D or 3D representations such as RGB images, depth maps or point clouds. Current HPE methods from depth and point clouds predominantly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Irene Ballester , Ondřej Peterka , Martin Kampel

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

Human-centric Point Cloud Video Understanding (PVU) is an emerging field focused on extracting and interpreting human-related features from sequences of human point clouds, further advancing downstream human-centric tasks and applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yiteng Xu , Kecheng Ye , Xiao Han , Yiming Ren , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Recent techniques on implicit geometry representation learning and neural rendering have shown promising results for 3D clothed human reconstruction from sparse video inputs. However, it is still challenging to reconstruct detailed surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hao Wang , Qingshan Xu , Hongyuan Chen , Rui Ma

In this paper we present ADOP, a novel point-based, differentiable neural rendering pipeline. Like other neural renderers, our system takes as input calibrated camera images and a proxy geometry of the scene, in our case a point cloud. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Darius Rückert , Linus Franke , Marc Stamminger

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Recent progress in human shape learning, shows that neural implicit models are effective in generating 3D human surfaces from limited number of views, and even from a single RGB image. However, existing monocular approaches still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Marco Pesavento , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Ziyan Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Marco Volino , Edmond Boyer , Adrian Hilton , Tony Tung

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Recent advances in image-based 3D human shape estimation have been driven by the significant improvement in representation power afforded by deep neural networks. Although current approaches have demonstrated the potential in real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Hanbyul Joo