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We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

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We propose a level set method to reconstruct unknown surfaces from point clouds, without assuming that the connections between points are known. We consider a variational formulation with a curvature constraint that minimizes the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

Implicit neural networks have emerged as a crucial technology in 3D surface reconstruction. To reconstruct continuous surfaces from discrete point clouds, encoding the input points into regular grid features (plane or volume) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Ming Gu

This paper introduces a novel method for reconstructing meshes from sparse point clouds by predicting edge connection. Existing implicit methods usually produce superior smooth and watertight meshes due to the isosurface extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Weimin Wang , Yingxu Deng , Zezeng Li , Yu Liu , Na Lei

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction has emerged as a popular paradigm for multi-view 3D reconstruction. Unlike traditional multi-view stereo approaches, the neural implicit surface-based methods leverage neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qianyi Wu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Kejie Li , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Rao Fu , Kai Hormann , Pierre Alliez

A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partial scans. Hence, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer , Niloy J. Mitra

Scene and object reconstruction is an important problem in robotics, in particular in planning collision-free trajectories or in object manipulation. This paper compares two strategies for the reconstruction of nonvisible parts of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Rafał Staszak , Piotr Michałek , Jakub Chudziński , Marek Kopicki , Dominik Belter

Surface reconstruction from a set of scattered points, or a point cloud, has many applications ranging from computer graphics to remote sensing. We present a new method for this task that produces an implicit surface (zero-level set)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Kathryn P. Drake , Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

The reconstruction of a discrete surface from a point cloud is a fundamental geometry processing problem that has been studied for decades, with many methods developed. We propose the use of a deep neural network as a geometric prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Francis Williams , Teseo Schneider , Claudio Silva , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo

Reconstructing meshes from point clouds is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications spanning robotics, autonomous systems, and medical imaging. Selecting an appropriate learning-based method requires understanding trade-offs…

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Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model reconstruction from point clouds is an important problem at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning; it saves the designer significant time when iterating on in-the-wild objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yujia Liu , Anton Obukhov , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

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