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We present a novel approach to perform 3D semantic segmentation solely from 2D supervision by leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). By extracting features along a surface point cloud, we achieve a compact representation of the scene…

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We present Neural Random Forest Imitation - a novel approach for transforming random forests into neural networks. Existing methods propose a direct mapping and produce very inefficient architectures. In this work, we introduce an imitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Christoph Reinders , Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper proposes NeuralEditor that enables neural radiance fields (NeRFs) natively editable for general shape editing tasks. Despite their impressive results on novel-view synthesis, it remains a fundamental challenge for NeRFs to edit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jun-Kun Chen , Jipeng Lyu , Yu-Xiong Wang

Accurately reconstructing road surfaces is pivotal for various applications especially in autonomous driving. This paper introduces a position encoding Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) framework to reconstruct road surfaces, with input as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruibo Wang , Song Zhang , Ping Huang , Donghai Zhang , Haoyu Chen

NeRF-based techniques fit wide and deep multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to a continuous radiance field that can be rendered from any unseen viewpoint. However, the lack of surface and normals definition and high rendering times limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Stefano Esposito , Daniele Baieri , Stefan Zellmann , André Hinkenjann , Emanuele Rodolà

We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs. Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Peng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

We present a parallelized optimization method based on fast Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) for estimating 6-DoF pose of a camera with respect to an object or scene. Given a single observed RGB image of the target, we can predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yunzhi Lin , Thomas Müller , Jonathan Tremblay , Bowen Wen , Stephen Tyree , Alex Evans , Patricio A. Vela , Stan Birchfield

Neural Fields have emerged as a transformative approach for 3D scene representation in computer vision and robotics, enabling accurate inference of geometry, 3D semantics, and dynamics from posed 2D data. Leveraging differentiable…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enable 3D scene reconstruction from 2D images and camera poses for Novel View Synthesis (NVS). Although NeRF can produce photorealistic results, it often suffers from overfitting to training views, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fusang Wang , Arnaud Louys , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou

Recent advances in neural scene representations have led to unprecedented quality in 3D reconstruction and view synthesis. Despite achieving high-quality results for common benchmarks with curated data, outputs often degrade for data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Niemeyer , Fabian Manhardt , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Oechsle , Christina Tsalicoglou , Keisuke Tateno , Jonathan T. Barron , Federico Tombari

This paper introduces $\rho$-NeRF, a self-supervised approach that sets a new standard in novel view synthesis (NVS) and computed tomography (CT) reconstruction by modeling a continuous volumetric radiance field enriched with physics-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Li Zhou , Changsheng Fang , Bahareh Morovati , Yongtong Liu , Shuo Han , Yongshun Xu , Hengyong Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in reconstructing complex scenes with high fidelity. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle low-frequency reflections. It falls short when handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chen Gao , Yipeng Wang , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf

Safe and efficient robot operation in complex human environments can benefit from good models of site-specific motion patterns. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs) provide such models by encoding statistical motion patterns in a map, but existing…

We investigate the use of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to learn high quality 3D object category models from collections of input images. In contrast to previous work, we are able to do this whilst simultaneously separating foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christopher Xie , Keunhong Park , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Matthew Brown

Recent work on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) exploits multi-view 3D consistency, achieving impressive results in 3D scene modeling and high-fidelity novel-view synthesis. However, there are limitations. First, existing methods assume enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mengfei Li , Ming Lu , Xiaofang Li , Shanghang Zhang

Topology optimization is a critical task in engineering design, where the goal is to optimally distribute material in a given space for maximum performance. We introduce Neural Implicit Topology Optimization (NITO), a novel approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Giorgio Giannone , Lyle Regenwetter , Faez Ahmed

We use neural radiance fields (NeRFs) to build interactive 3D environments from large-scale visual captures spanning buildings or even multiple city blocks collected primarily from drones. In contrast to single object scenes (on which NeRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Haithem Turki , Deva Ramanan , Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sida Peng , Xingang Pan , Nanxuan Zhao , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a powerful tool for implicit scene representations, allowing for differentiable rendering and the ability to make predictions about unseen viewpoints. There has been growing interest in object and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Boxuan Zhang , Lindsay Kleeman , Michael Burke

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling framework for scene representation and 3D recovery. To improve its performance on real-world data, depth regularizations have proven to be the most effective ones. However, depth…

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