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Neural implicit representation, the parameterization of a continuous distance function as a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), has emerged as a promising lead in tackling surface reconstruction from unoriented point clouds. In the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ruichen Zheng , Tao Yu , Ruizhen Hu

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

Learning radiance fields (NeRF) with powerful 2D diffusion models has garnered popularity for text-to-3D generation. Nevertheless, the implicit 3D representations of NeRF lack explicit modeling of meshes and textures over surfaces, and such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Haibo Yang , Yang Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

Meshes are fundamental representations of 3D surfaces. However, creating high-quality meshes is a labor-intensive task that requires significant time and expertise in 3D modeling. While a delicate object often requires over $10^4$ faces to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zekun Hao , David W. Romero , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu

Automatic mesh-based shape generation is of great interest across a wide range of disciplines, from industrial design to gaming, computer graphics and various other forms of digital art. While most traditional methods focus on primitive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Philip Marcus

Current 3D representations like meshes, voxels, point clouds, and NeRF-based neural implicit fields exhibit significant limitations: they are often task-specific, lacking universal applicability across reconstruction, generation, editing,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tielong Wang , Yuxuan Xiong , Jinfan Liu , Zhifan Zhang , Ye Chen , Yue Shi , Bingbing Ni

Dynamic imaging is essential for analyzing various biological systems and behaviors but faces two main challenges: data incompleteness and computational burden. For many imaging systems, high frame rates and short acquisition times require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Luke Lozenski , Mark A. Anastasio , Umberto Villa

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have constituted a remarkable breakthrough in image-based 3D reconstruction. However, their implicit volumetric representations differ significantly from the widely-adopted polygonal meshes and lack support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jiaxiang Tang , Hang Zhou , Xiaokang Chen , Tianshu Hu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Gang Zeng

Head shapes play an important role in 3D character design. In this work, we propose SimpModeling, a novel sketch-based system for helping users, especially amateur users, easily model 3D animalmorphic heads - a prevalent kind of heads in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Zhongjin Luo , Jie Zhou , Heming Zhu , Dong Du , Xiaoguang Han , Hongbo Fu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have significantly advanced the generation of highly realistic and expressive 3D scenes. However, the task of editing NeRF, particularly in terms of geometry modification, poses a significant challenge. This…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ruiyang Liu , Jinxu Xiang , Bowen Zhao , Ran Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Changxi Zheng

We propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture that produces a 3D shape in triangular mesh from a single color image. Limited by the nature of deep neural network, previous methods usually represent a 3D shape in volume or point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Nanyang Wang , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Yanwei Fu , Wei Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Parametric human body models play a crucial role in computer graphics and vision, enabling applications ranging from human motion analysis to understanding human-environment interactions. Traditionally, these models use surface meshes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Marko Mihajlovic , Siwei Zhang , Gen Li , Kaifeng Zhao , Lea Müller , Siyu Tang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a very recent and very popular approach for the problems of novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. A popular scene representation used by NeRFs is to combine a uniform, voxel-based subdivision of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jonas Kulhanek , Torsten Sattler

We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhen Liu , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Weiyang Liu

We are seeing a Cambrian explosion of 3D shape representations for use in machine learning. Some representations seek high expressive power in capturing high-resolution detail. Other approaches seek to represent shapes as compositions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zekun Hao , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Noah Snavely , Serge Belongie

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

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

Recently, neural fields, also known as coordinate-based MLPs, have achieved impressive results in representing low-dimensional data. Unlike CNN, MLPs are globally connected and lack local control; adjusting a local region leads to global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yixin Zhuang

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