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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

This work proposes an optimization-based manipulation planning framework where the objectives are learned functionals of signed-distance fields that represent objects in the scene. Most manipulation planning approaches rely on analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Danny Driess , Jung-Su Ha , Marc Toussaint , Russ Tedrake

Small-scale liquid flows on solid surfaces provide convincing details in liquid animation, but they are difficult to be simulated with efficiency and fidelity, mostly due to the complex nature of the surface tension at the contact front…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Rajaditya Mukherjee , Qingyang Li , Zhili Chen , Shicheng Chu , Huamin Wang

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

Autonomous robots should operate in real-world dynamic environments and collaborate with humans in tight spaces. A key component for allowing robots to leave structured lab and manufacturing settings is their ability to evaluate online and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Puze Liu , Kuo Zhang , Davide Tateo , Snehal Jauhri , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) for surface representation are commonly generated offline and subsequently loaded into interactive applications like games. Since they are not updated every frame, they only provide a rigid surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation. Learned simulators have emerged as a possibility to capture real world physics directly from video data, but very often require privileged information…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mikel Zhobro , Andreas René Geist , Georg Martius

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yuanzhan Li , Yuqi Liu , Yujie Lu , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai , Yanting Zhang

Active 3D measurement, especially structured light (SL) has been widely used in various fields for its robustness against textureless or equivalent surfaces by low light illumination. In addition, reconstruction of large scenes by moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kazuto Ichimaru , Diego Thomas , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

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

Modeling the structure and events of the physical world constitutes a fundamental objective of neural networks. Among the diverse approaches, Graph Network Simulators (GNS) have emerged as the leading method for modeling physical phenomena,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sheng Yang , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao

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 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

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

In various applications, such as virtual reality and gaming, simulating the deformation of soft tissues in the human body during interactions with external objects is essential. Traditionally, Finite Element Methods (FEM) have been employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Anton Agafonov , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Here we present a machine learning framework and model implementation that can learn to simulate a wide variety of challenging physical domains, involving fluids, rigid solids, and deformable materials interacting with one another. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Jonathan Godwin , Tobias Pfaff , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec , Peter W. Battaglia

Dynamic scene rendering and reconstruction play a crucial role in computer vision and augmented reality. Recent methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have enabled accurate modeling of dynamic urban scenes, but for urban scenes they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Siddharth Tourani , Jayaram Reddy , Akash Kumbar , Satyajit Tourani , Nishant Goyal , Madhava Krishna , N. Dinesh Reddy , Muhammad Haris Khan

A good representation of a large, complex mobile robot workspace must be space-efficient yet capable of encoding relevant geometric details. When exploring unknown environments, it needs to be updatable incrementally in an online fashion.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Suveer Garg , Jinwook Huh , Bhoram Lee , Volkan Isler