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Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

Molecule generation, especially generating 3D molecular geometries from scratch (i.e., 3D \textit{de novo} generation), has become a fundamental task in drug designs. Existing diffusion-based 3D molecule generation methods could suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Lei Huang , Hengtong Zhang , Tingyang Xu , Ka-Chun Wong

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Junxiang Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen , Liang Zhao

In this paper, we develop a new method, termed SDF-3DGAN, for 3D object generation and 3D-Aware image synthesis tasks, which introduce implicit Signed Distance Function (SDF) as the 3D object representation method in the generative field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lutao Jiang , Ruyi Ji , Libo Zhang

While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains a challenge. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offer powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Minje Kim , Younghyun Noh , Jaesoon Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

We introduce a general, scalable computational framework for multi-axis 3D printing based on implicit neural fields (INFs) that unifies all stages of toolpath generation and global collision-free motion planning. In our pipeline, input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiasheng Qu , Zhuo Huang , Dezhao Guo , Hailin Sun , Aoran Lyu , Chengkai Dai , Yeung Yam , Guoxin Fang

The 3D shapes of faces are well known to be discriminative. Yet despite this, they are rarely used for face recognition and always under controlled viewing conditions. We claim that this is a symptom of a serious but often overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Anh Tuan Tran , Tal Hassner , Iacopo Masi , Gerard Medioni

We present Bayesian Diffusion Models (BDM), a prediction algorithm that performs effective Bayesian inference by tightly coupling the top-down (prior) information with the bottom-up (data-driven) procedure via joint diffusion processes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Haiyang Xu , Yu Lei , Zeyuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yue Zhao , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Reconstructing open surfaces from multi-view images is vital in digitalizing complex objects in daily life. A widely used strategy is to learn unsigned distance functions (UDFs) by checking if their appearance conforms to the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Benchmarking methods for 3d hand tracking is still an open problem due to the difficulty of acquiring ground truth data. We introduce a new dataset and benchmarking protocol that is insensitive to the accumulative error of other protocols.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Dimitrios Tzionas , Juergen Gall

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Soumen Sikder Shuvo , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

In recent years, 3D vision has become a crucial field within computer vision, powering a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, augmented reality, and medical imaging. This field relies on accurate perception,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhen Wang , Dongyuan Li , Yaozu Wu , Tianyu He , Jiang Bian , Renhe Jiang

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

Monocular 3D object detection is of great significance for autonomous driving but remains challenging. The core challenge is to predict the distance of objects in the absence of explicit depth information. Unlike regressing the distance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Xuepeng Shi , Qi Ye , Xiaozhi Chen , Chuangrong Chen , Zhixiang Chen , Tae-Kyun Kim

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han

The last several years have seen significant progress in using depth cameras for tracking articulated objects such as human bodies, hands, and robotic manipulators. Most approaches focus on tracking skeletal parameters of a fixed shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Aaron Walsman , Weilin Wan , Tanner Schmidt , Dieter Fox

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

We introduce the first method for generating Vector Displacement Maps (VDMs): parameterized, detailed geometric stamps commonly used in 3D modeling. Given a single input image, our method first generates multi-view normal maps and then…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuezhi Yang , Qimin Chen , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Qixing Huang , Zhiqin Chen

Over nearly two decades, Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) has become a standard technique for extracting dynamic correlation functions from time-lapse microscopy data, with applications spanning colloidal suspensions, polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-11 Enrico Lattuada , Fabian Krautgasser , Maxime Lavaud , Fabio Giavazzi , Roberto Cerbino

Recent studies have shown the benefits of using additional elevation data (e.g., DSM) for enhancing the performance of the semantic segmentation of aerial images. However, previous methods mostly adopt 3D elevation information as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang