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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

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a prominent pre-training paradigm for vision-centric autonomous driving, which enhances 3D geometry and appearance understanding in a fully self-supervised manner. To apply NeRF-based…

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3D Morphable Model (3DMM) fitting has widely benefited face analysis due to its strong 3D priori. However, previous reconstructed 3D faces suffer from degraded visual verisimilitude due to the loss of fine-grained geometry, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiangyu Zhu , Chang Yu , Di Huang , Zhen Lei , Hao Wang , Stan Z. Li

Estimating 6D poses and reconstructing 3D shapes of objects in open-world scenes from RGB-depth image pairs is challenging. Many existing methods rely on learning geometric features that correspond to specific templates while disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Haowen Wang , Zhipeng Fan , Zhen Zhao , Zhengping Che , Zhiyuan Xu , Dong Liu , Feifei Feng , Yakun Huang , Xiuquan Qiao , Jian Tang

We present Pose-NDF, a continuous model for plausible human poses based on neural distance fields (NDFs). Pose or motion priors are important for generating realistic new poses and for reconstructing accurate poses from noisy or partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Garvita Tiwari , Dimitrije Antic , Jan Eric Lenssen , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Tony Tung , Gerard Pons-Moll

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

Regular object detection methods output rectangle bounding boxes, which are unable to accurately describe the actual object shapes. Instance segmentation methods output pixel-level labels, which are computationally expensive for real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Yang Zheng , Oles Andrienko , Yonglei Zhao , Minwoo Park , Trung Pham

Medical image segmentation is often considered as the task of labelling each pixel or voxel as being inside or outside a given anatomy. Processing the images at their original size and resolution often result in insuperable memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Kristine Sørensen , Oscar Camara , Ole de Backer , Klaus Kofoed , Rasmus Paulsen

Physically based rendering of complex scenes can be prohibitively costly with a potentially unbounded and uneven distribution of complexity across the rendered image. The goal of an ideal level of detail (LoD) method is to make rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Steve Bako , Pradeep Sen , Anton Kaplanyan

Neural volume rendering became increasingly popular recently due to its success in synthesizing novel views of a scene from a sparse set of input images. So far, the geometry learned by neural volume rendering techniques was modeled using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Lior Yariv , Jiatao Gu , Yoni Kasten , Yaron Lipman

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bobo Lian , Zidong Wang , Dandan Wang , Chenjian Wu , Minxin Chen

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

This paper addresses the limitations of neural rendering-based multi-view surface reconstruction methods, which require an additional mesh extraction step that is inconvenient and would produce poor-quality surfaces with mesh aliasing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qitong Zhang , Jieqing Feng

The signed distance field is a popular implicit shape representation in robotics, providing geometric information about objects and obstacles in a form that can easily be combined with control, optimization and learning techniques. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Li , Xuemin Chi , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

Reconstruction of deformable scenes from endoscopic videos is important for many applications such as intraoperative navigation, surgical visual perception, and robotic surgery. It is a foundational requirement for realizing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Shreya Saha , Zekai Liang , Shan Lin , Jingpei Lu , Michael Yip , Sainan Liu

Given everyday artifacts, such as tables and chairs, humans recognize high-level regularities within them, such as the symmetries of a table, the repetition of its legs, while possessing low-level priors of their geometries, e.g., surfaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yichao Liang

A surface light field represents the radiance of rays originating from any points on the surface in any directions. Traditional approaches require ultra-dense sampling to ensure the rendering quality. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Anpei Chen , Minye Wu , Yingliang Zhang , Nianyi Li , Jie Lu , Shenghua Gao , Jingyi Yu

Inverse rendering seeks to reconstruct both geometry and spatially varying BRDFs (SVBRDFs) from captured images. To address the inherent ill-posedness of inverse rendering, basis BRDF representations are commonly used, modeling SVBRDFs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hoon-Gyu Chung , Seokjun Choi , Seung-Hwan Baek

State-of-the-art fully intrinsic networks for non-rigid shape matching often struggle to disambiguate the symmetries of the shapes leading to unstable correspondence predictions. Meanwhile, recent advances in the functional map framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Nicolas Donati , Etienne Corman , Maks Ovsjanikov

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have gained prominence as a machine learning technique for representing 3D scenes and estimating the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) from multiple images. However, most existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lulin Zhang , Ewelina Rupnik , Tri Dung Nguyen , Stéphane Jacquemoud , Yann Klinger