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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

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

We introduce CN-DHF (Compact Neural Double-Height-Field), a novel hybrid neural implicit 3D shape representation that is dramatically more compact than the current state of the art. Our representation leverages Double-Height-Field (DHF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Eric Hedlin , Jinfan Yang , Nicholas Vining , Kwang Moo Yi , Alla Sheffer

Neural implicit surfaces are a promising tool for geometry processing that represent a solid object as the zero level set of a neural network. Usually trained to approximate a signed distance function of the considered object, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guillaume Coiffier , Louis Bethune

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

Three-dimensional (3D) freehand ultrasound (US) is a widely used imaging modality that allows non-invasive imaging of medical anatomy without radiation exposure. Surface reconstruction of US volume is vital to acquire the accurate…

Learning-based surface reconstruction based on unsigned distance functions (UDF) has many advantages such as handling open surfaces. We propose SuperUDF, a self-supervised UDF learning which exploits a learned geometry prior for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hui Tian , Chenyang Zhu , Yifei Shi , Kai Xu

Accurate 3D shape representation is essential in engineering applications such as design, optimization, and simulation. In practice, engineering workflows require structured, part-based representations, as objects are inherently designed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Talabot , Olivier Clerc , Arda Cinar Demirtas , Alexis Goujon , Hieu Le , Doruk Oner , Pascal Fua

In this paper, we present an implicit surface reconstruction method with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), namely 3DGSR, that allows for accurate 3D reconstruction with intricate details while inheriting the high efficiency and rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Xiaoyang Lyu , Yang-Tian Sun , Yi-Hua Huang , Xiuzhe Wu , Ziyi Yang , Yilun Chen , Jiangmiao Pang , Xiaojuan Qi

We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Brandon Yushan Feng , Yinda Zhang , Danhang Tang , Ruofei Du , Amitabh Varshney

Differentiable physics is a powerful tool in computer vision and robotics for scene understanding and reasoning about interactions. Existing approaches have frequently been limited to objects with simple shape or shapes that are known in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Michael Strecke , Joerg Stueckler

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

We propose a novel Deformed Implicit Field (DIF) representation for modeling 3D shapes of a category and generating dense correspondences among shapes. With DIF, a 3D shape is represented by a template implicit field shared across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

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

Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, resulting in a conservative trajectory, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao

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

Neural signed-distance fields (SDFs) are a versatile backbone for neural geometry representation, but enforcing CAD-style developability usually requires Gaussian-curvature penalties with full Hessian evaluation and second-order…