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Indoor scenes we are living in are visually homogenous or textureless, while they inherently have structural forms and provide enough structural priors for 3D scene reconstruction. Motivated by this fact, we propose a structure-aware online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jaehoon Jang , Inha Lee , Minje Kim , Kyungdon Joo

Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

Autonomous robots should operate in real-world dynamic environments and collaborate with humans in tight spaces. A key component for allowing robots to leave structured lab and manufacturing settings is their ability to evaluate online and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Puze Liu , Kuo Zhang , Davide Tateo , Snehal Jauhri , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Minimally invasive procedures have been advanced rapidly by the robotic laparoscopic surgery. The latter greatly assists surgeons in sophisticated and precise operations with reduced invasiveness. Nevertheless, it is still safety critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeqing Wang , Han Fang , Yihong Xu , Yutong Ban

High-dimensional manipulator operation in unstructured environments requires a differentiable, scene-agnostic distance query mechanism to guide safe motion generation. Existing geometric collision checkers are typically non-differentiable,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haohua Chen , Yixuan Zhou , Yifan Zhou , Hesheng Wang

Embodied intelligence requires precise reconstruction and rendering to simulate large-scale real-world data. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated high-quality results with real-time performance, it still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodong Xiang , Xinghui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiansong Lai , Wanting Zhang , Zhichao Liao , Long Zeng , Xueping Liu

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) for surface representation are commonly generated offline and subsequently loaded into interactive applications like games. Since they are not updated every frame, they only provide a rigid surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Implicit representations of 3D objects have recently achieved impressive results on learning-based 3D reconstruction tasks. While existing works use simple texture models to represent object appearance, photo-realistic image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

In recent years, the neural implicit surface has emerged as a powerful representation for multi-view surface reconstruction due to its simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. However, reconstructing smooth and detailed surfaces in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuting Xiao , Jingwei Xu , Zehao Yu , Shenghua Gao

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) are a fundamental representation in robot motion planning. Their configuration-space counterpart, the Configuration Space Distance Field (CDF), directly encodes distances in joint space, offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mengzhu Li , Yunyu Zhou , He Ying , F. Richard Yu

We present VoroUDF, an algorithm for reconstructing high-quality triangle meshes from Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs). Our algorithm supports non-manifold geometry, sharp features, and open boundaries, without relying on error-prone…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ningna Wang , Zilong Wang , Xiana Carrera , Xiaohu Guo , Silvia Sellán

Recent work achieved impressive progress towards joint reconstruction of hands and manipulated objects from monocular color images. Existing methods focus on two alternative representations in terms of either parametric meshes or signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zerui Chen , Yana Hasson , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Visibility information is critical in game AI applications, but the computational cost of raycasting-based methods poses a challenge for real-time systems. To address this challenge, we propose a novel method that represents a partitioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhi Ying , Nicholas Edwards , Mikhail Kutuzov

Neural implicit surface representations have emerged as a promising paradigm to capture 3D shapes in a continuous and resolution-independent manner. However, adapting them to articulated shapes is non-trivial. Existing approaches learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xu Chen , Yufeng Zheng , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Andreas Geiger

In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Akarshani Ramanayake , Nihal Kodikara

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Remi Chierchia , Léo Lebrat , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Rodrigo Santa Cruz