English
Related papers

Related papers: Details Enhancement in Unsigned Distance Field Lea…

200 papers

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

Latest methods represent shapes with open surfaces using unsigned distance functions (UDFs). They train neural networks to learn UDFs and reconstruct surfaces with the gradients around the zero level set of the UDF. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Surface reconstruction for point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Most of the latest methods resolve this problem by learning signed distance functions from point clouds, which are limited to reconstructing closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

High fidelity representation of shapes with arbitrary topology is an important problem for a variety of vision and graphics applications. Owing to their limited resolution, classical discrete shape representations using point clouds, voxels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Rahul Venkatesh , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , Laszlo Jeni , Maneesh Singh

Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

Reconstructing open surfaces from multi-view images is vital in digitalizing complex objects in daily life. A widely used strategy is to learn unsigned distance functions (UDFs) by checking if their appearance conforms to the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Multi-view shape reconstruction has achieved impressive progresses thanks to the latest advances in neural implicit surface rendering. However, existing methods based on signed distance function (SDF) are limited to closed surfaces, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yu-Tao Liu , Li Wang , Jie yang , Weikai Chen , Xiaoxu Meng , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

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

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

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) provide a versatile framework for representing a diverse array of 3D shapes, encompassing both watertight and non-watertight geometries. Traditional UDF learning methods typically require extensive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiangbei Hu , Yanggeng Li , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Shengfa Wang , Na Lei , Ying He

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) allow for the representation of models with complex topologies, but extracting accurate zero level sets from these fields poses significant challenges, particularly in preserving topological accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Xuhui Chen , Fugang Yu , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

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

We propose SDFDiff, a novel approach for image-based shape optimization using differentiable rendering of 3D shapes represented by signed distance functions (SDFs). Compared to other representations, SDFs have the advantage that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yue Jiang , Dantong Ji , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

Learning-based surface reconstruction based on unsigned distance functions (UDF) has many advantages such as handling open surfaces. We propose SuperUDF, a self-supervised UDF learning which exploits a learned geometry prior for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hui Tian , Chenyang Zhu , Yifei Shi , Kai Xu

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›