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The recent surge of utilizing deep neural networks for geometric processing and shape modeling has opened up exciting avenues. However, there is a conspicuous lack of research efforts on using powerful neural representations to extend the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Yang , Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Alla Sheffer , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have become popular for multi-view 3D reconstruction. In contrast to traditional multi-view stereo methods, these approaches tend to produce smoother and more complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zehao Yu , Songyou Peng , Michael Niemeyer , Torsten Sattler , Andreas Geiger

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) provide a versatile framework for representing a diverse array of 3D shapes, encompassing both watertight and non-watertight geometries. Traditional UDF learning methods typically require extensive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiangbei Hu , Yanggeng Li , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Shengfa Wang , Na Lei , Ying He

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have been demonstrated to achieve state-of-the-art compression of a broad range of modalities such as images, videos, 3D surfaces, and audio. Most studies have focused on building neural counterparts…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan Bovik

\textit{Implicit neural representations} (INRs) have emerged as a promising framework for representing signals in low-dimensional spaces. This survey reviews the existing literature on the specialized INR problem of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luiz Schirmer , Tiago Novello , Vinícius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Daniel Perazzo , Hélio Lopes , Nuno Gonçalves , Luiz Velho

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

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Neural implicit surfaces have become an important technique for multi-view 3D reconstruction but their accuracy remains limited. In this paper, we argue that this comes from the difficulty to learn and render high frequency textures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

Recent learning approaches that implicitly represent surface geometry using coordinate-based neural representations have shown impressive results in the problem of multi-view 3D reconstruction. The effectiveness of these techniques is,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Eduard Ramon , Gil Triginer , Janna Escur , Albert Pumarola , Jaime Garcia , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

In recent years, implicit surface representations through neural networks that encode the signed distance have gained popularity and have achieved state-of-the-art results in various tasks (e.g. shape representation, shape reconstruction,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Petros Tzathas , Petros Maragos , Anastasios Roussos

Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

Recent techniques have been successful in reconstructing surfaces as level sets of learned functions (such as signed distance fields) parameterized by deep neural networks. Many of these methods, however, learn only closed surfaces and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 David Palmer , Dmitriy Smirnov , Stephanie Wang , Albert Chern , Justin Solomon

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs. Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Peng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

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

Representing surfaces as zero level sets of neural networks recently emerged as a powerful modeling paradigm, named Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), serving numerous downstream applications in geometric deep learning and 3D vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yaron Lipman

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a tomographic sensor that measures 2D slices of the 3D spatial Fourier transform of the scene. In many operational scenarios, the measured set of 2D slices does not fill the 3D space in the Fourier domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin