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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

We consider the challenging problem of learning Signed Distance Functions (SDF) from sparse and noisy 3D point clouds. In contrast to recent methods that depend on smoothness priors, our method, rooted in a distributionally robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Amine Ouasfi , Shubhendu Jena , Eric Marchand , Adnane Boukhayma

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Implicit functions such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), occupancy networks, and signed distance functions (SDFs) have become pivotal in computer vision for reconstructing detailed object shapes from sparse views. Achieving optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Anna Susmelj , Mael Macuglia , Nataša Tagasovska , Reto Sutter , Sebastiano Caprara , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Ender Konukoglu

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

Occupancy prediction reconstructs 3D structures of surrounding environments. It provides detailed information for autonomous driving planning and navigation. However, most existing methods heavily rely on the LiDAR point clouds to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Chubin Zhang , Juncheng Yan , Yi Wei , Jiaxin Li , Li Liu , Yansong Tang , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu

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

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

Scene Completion is the task of completing missing geometry from a partial scan of a scene. Most previous methods compute an implicit representation from range data using a Truncated Signed Distance Function (T-SDF) computed on a 3D grid as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jean Pierre Richa , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette , Nicolas Dalmasso

We present a novel approach for recovering 3D shape and view dependent appearance from a few colored images, enabling efficient 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Our method learns an implicit neural representation in the form of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Mae Younes , Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

Computer graphics, 3D computer vision and robotics communities have produced multiple approaches to representing 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. These provide trade-offs across fidelity, efficiency and compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jeong Joon Park , Peter Florence , Julian Straub , Richard Newcombe , Steven Lovegrove

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

Surface reconstruction for point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Most of the latest methods resolve this problem by learning signed distance functions from point clouds, which are limited to reconstructing closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Deep neural representations of 3D shapes as implicit functions have been shown to produce high fidelity models surpassing the resolution-memory trade-off faced by the explicit representations using meshes and point clouds. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rahul Venkatesh , Tejan Karmali , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , László A. Jeni , Maneesh Singh

Advanced techniques using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), Signed Distance Fields (SDF), and Occupancy Fields have recently emerged as solutions for 3D indoor scene reconstruction. We introduce a novel two-phase learning approach, H2O-SDF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Minyoung Park , Mirae Do , YeonJae Shin , Jaeseok Yoo , Jongkwang Hong , Joongrock Kim , Chul Lee

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

\textit{Implicit neural representations} (INRs) have emerged as a promising framework for representing signals in low-dimensional spaces. This survey reviews the existing literature on the specialized INR problem of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luiz Schirmer , Tiago Novello , Vinícius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Daniel Perazzo , Hélio Lopes , Nuno Gonçalves , Luiz Velho

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang

Accurate and dense mapping in large-scale environments is essential for various robot applications. Recently, implicit neural signed distance fields (SDFs) have shown promising advances in this task. However, most existing approaches employ…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shuangfu Song , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng