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Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. Several recent state-of-the-art methods address this problem using neural networks to learn signed distance functions (SDFs). In…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

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In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

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Partitioning a polygonal mesh into meaningful parts can be challenging. Many applications require decomposing such structures for further processing in computer graphics. In the last decade, several methods were proposed to tackle this…

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Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

Manipulating three-dimensional (3D) deformable objects presents significant challenges for robotic systems due to their infinite-dimensional state space and complex deformable dynamics. This paper proposes a novel model-free approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ning Han , Gu Gong , Bin Zhang , Yuexuan Xu , Bohan Yang , Yunhui Liu , David Navarro-Alarcon

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

Previous deep image registration methods that employ single homography, multi-grid homography, or thin-plate spline often struggle with real scenes containing depth disparities due to their inherent limitations. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haokai Zhu , Bo Qu , Si-Yuan Cao , Runmin Zhang , Shujie Chen , Bailin Yang , Hui-Liang Shen

Neural fields have revolutionized the area of 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis of rigid scenes. A key challenge in making such methods applicable to articulated objects, such as the human body, is to model the deformation of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Max Rietmann , Andreas Geiger , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

In this work we present a novel approach for computing correspondences between non-rigid objects, by exploiting a reduced representation of deformation fields. Different from existing works that represent deformation fields by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ramana Sundararaman , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodola , Maks Ovsjanikov

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…

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Anatomical variabilities seen in longitudinal data or inter-subject data is usually described by the underlying deformation, captured by non-rigid registration of these images. Stationary Velocity Field (SVF) based non-rigid registration…

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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

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have driven impressive progress in view synthesis by using ray-traced volumetric rendering. Splatting-based methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provide faster rendering by rasterizing 3D primitives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Antonella Rech , Nicola Conci , Nicola Garau

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

Deep learning applied to the reconstruction of 3D shapes has seen growing interest. A popular approach to 3D reconstruction and generation in recent years has been the CNN encoder-decoder model usually applied in voxel space. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Eugene Belilovsky , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

We propose a PDE-constrained shape registration algorithm that captures the deformation and growth of biological tissue from imaging data. Shape registration is the process of evaluating optimum alignment between pairs of geometries through…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Aishwarya Pawar , Linlin Li , Arun K Gosain , David M Umulis , Adrian B Tepole

Signed distance field (SDF) is a prominent implicit representation of 3D meshes. Methods that are based on such representation achieved state-of-the-art 3D shape reconstruction quality. However, these methods struggle to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Kacper Kania , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

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…

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