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This paper introduces a novel framework for continuous 3D trajectory optimization in cluttered environments, leveraging online neural Euclidean Signed Distance Fields (ESDFs). Unlike prior approaches that rely on discretized ESDF grids with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Guillermo Gil , Jose Antonio Cobano , Luis Merino , Fernando Caballero

Generating intelligent robot behavior in contact-rich settings is a research problem where zeroth-order methods currently prevail. Developing methods that make use of first/second order information about rigid-body dynamics in the presence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Onur Beker , Andreas René Geist , Anselm Paulus , Georg Martius

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

Generating safe motion plans in real-time is a key requirement for deploying robot manipulators to assist humans in collaborative settings. In particular, robots must satisfy strict safety requirements to avoid self-damage or harming nearby…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jonathan Michaux , Qingyi Chen , Yongseok Kwon , Ram Vasudevan

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Swept volume computation, the determination of regions occupied by moving objects, is essential in graphics, robotics, and manufacturing. Existing approaches either explicitly track surfaces, suffering from robustness issues under complex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Pengfei Wang , Yuexin Yang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

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

This study addresses the challenge of ensuring safe spacecraft proximity operations, focusing on collision avoidance between a chaser spacecraft and a complex-geometry target spacecraft under disturbances. To ensure safety in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Hang Zhou , Tao Meng , Kun Wang , Chengrui Shi , Renhao Mao , Weijia Wang , Jiakun Lei

Object completion networks typically produce static Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) that faithfully reconstruct geometry but cannot be rescaled or deformed without introducing structural distortions. This limitation restricts their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jelle Vermandere , Maarten Bassier , Maarten Vergauwen

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate method for autonomous surface vehicles to generate a smooth and collision-free trajectory considering its dynamics constraints. We decouple the trajectory planning problem as a front-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Licheng Wen , Jiaqing Yan , Xuemeng Yang , Yong Liu , Yong Gu

The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qianyi Wu , Xian Liu , Yuedong Chen , Kejie Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

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

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

Methods allowing the synthesis of realistic cell shapes could help generate training data sets to improve cell tracking and segmentation in biomedical images. Deep generative models for cell shape synthesis require a light-weight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Font design is of vital importance in the digital content design and modern printing industry. Developing algorithms capable of automatically synthesizing vector fonts can significantly facilitate the font design process. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zeqing Xia , Bojun Xiong , Zhouhui Lian

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

Polygonal collision avoidance (PCA) is short for the problem of collision avoidance between two polygons (i.e., polytopes in planar) that own their dynamic equations. This problem suffers the inherent difficulty in dealing with non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Shizhen Wu , Yongchun Fang , Ning Sun , Biao Lu , Xiao Liang , Yiming Zhao

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

A self-driving vehicle (SDV) must be able to perceive its surroundings and predict the future behavior of other traffic participants. Existing works either perform object detection followed by trajectory forecasting of the detected objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ben Agro , Quinlan Sykora , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

This paper presents a hybrid trajectory optimization method designed to generate collision-free, smooth trajectories for autonomous mobile robots. By combining sampling-based Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control with gradient-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Min-Gyeom Kim , Minchan Jung , JunGee Hong , Kwang-Ki K. Kim