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Neural implicit surface reconstruction with signed distance function has made significant progress, but recovering fine details such as thin structures and complex geometries remains challenging due to unreliable or noisy geometric priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qiyu Feng , Jiwei Shan , Shing Shin Cheng , Hesheng Wang

Multi-view shape reconstruction has achieved impressive progresses thanks to the latest advances in neural implicit surface rendering. However, existing methods based on signed distance function (SDF) are limited to closed surfaces, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yu-Tao Liu , Li Wang , Jie yang , Weikai Chen , Xiaoxu Meng , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a form of surface representation widely used in computer graphics, having applications in rendering, collision detection and modelling. In interactive media such as games, high-resolution SDFs are commonly…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

This paper proposes a deep-learning-based method for recovering a signed distance function (SDF) of a given hypersurface represented by an implicit level set function. Using the flexibility of constructing a neural network, we use an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yesom Park , Chang hoon Song , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

Presenting a 3D scene from multiview images remains a core and long-standing challenge in computer vision and computer graphics. Two main requirements lie in rendering and reconstruction. Notably, SOTA rendering quality is usually achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mulin Yu , Tao Lu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yuanbo Xiangli , Bo Dai

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 S. Talha Bukhari , Daniel Lawson , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

As commonly used implicit geometry representations, the signed distance function (SDF) is limited to modeling watertight shapes, while the unsigned distance function (UDF) is capable of representing various surfaces. However, its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanxiang Yang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Guangshun Wei , Long Ma , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang

Online reconstructing and rendering of large-scale indoor scenes is a long-standing challenge. SLAM-based methods can reconstruct 3D scene geometry progressively in real time but can not render photorealistic results. While NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yiming Gao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

While Signed Distance Fields (SDF) are well-established for modeling watertight surfaces, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDF) broaden the scope to include open surfaces and models with complex inner structures. Despite their flexibility, UDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cheng Xu , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

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

3D decomposition/segmentation still remains a challenge as large-scale 3D annotated data is not readily available. Contemporary approaches typically leverage 2D machine-generated segments, integrating them for 3D consistency. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tianhao Wu , Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Qianyi Wu

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Neural 3D implicit representations learn priors that are useful for diverse applications, such as single- or multiple-view 3D reconstruction. A major downside of existing approaches while rendering an image is that they require evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tarun Yenamandra , Ayush Tewari , Nan Yang , Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Daniel Cremers

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

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

Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

We present learning-based implicit shape representations designed for real-time avatar collision queries arising in the simulation of clothing. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have been used for such queries for many years due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Osman Akar , Yushan Han , Yizhou Chen , Weixian Lan , Benn Gallagher , Ronald Fedkiw , Joseph Teran