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Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

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Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

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It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

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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…

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Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

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Neural implicit representations, which encode a surface as the level set of a neural network applied to spatial coordinates, have proven to be remarkably effective for optimizing, compressing, and generating 3D geometry. Although these…

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Implicit representations of geometry, such as occupancy fields or signed distance fields (SDF), have recently re-gained popularity in encoding 3D solid shape in a functional form. In this work, we introduce medial fields: a field function…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Rebain , Ke Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Soroosh Yazdani , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

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…

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Recently, neural implicit surfaces learning by volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. However, one key challenge remains: existing approaches lack explicit multi-view geometry constraints, hence usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Qiancheng Fu , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

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The success of neural fields for 3D vision tasks is now indisputable. Following this trend, several methods aiming for visual localization (e.g., SLAM) have been proposed to estimate distance or density fields using neural fields. However,…

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Neural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) provide a differentiable environment representation to readily obtain collision checks and well-defined gradients for robot navigation tasks. However, updating neural SDFs as the scene evolves entails…

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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…

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It is vital to infer signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds. The latest methods rely on generalizing the priors learned from large scale supervision. However, the learned priors do not generalize well to various geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Reconstructing 3D geometry from \emph{unoriented} point clouds can benefit many downstream tasks. Recent shape modeling methods mostly adopt implicit neural representation to fit a signed distance field (SDF) and optimize the network by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Runsong Zhu , Di Kang , Ka-Hei Hui , Yue Qian , Xuefei Zhe , Zhen Dong , Linchao Bao , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Accurate mapping and localization are very important for many industrial robotics applications. In this paper, we propose an improved Signed Distance Function (SDF) for both 2D SLAM and pure localization to improve the accuracy of mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xingyin Fu , Zheng Fang , Xizhen Xiao , Yijia He , Xiao Liu

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning…

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