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We present a method for the accurate 3D reconstruction of partly-symmetric objects. We build on the strengths of recent advances in neural reconstruction and rendering such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). A major shortcoming of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Eldar Insafutdinov , Dylan Campbell , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

This paper presents a learning-based method for transparent surface estimation from a single view polarization image. Existing shape from polarization(SfP) methods have the difficulty in estimating transparent shape since the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Zhendong Yang , Junnan Huang , Xueqian Wang

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

3D dense reconstruction refers to the process of obtaining the complete shape and texture features of 3D objects from 2D planar images. 3D reconstruction is an important and extensively studied problem, but it is far from being solved. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yangming Li

The importance of regularization has been well established in image reconstruction -- which is the computational inversion of imaging forward model -- with applications including deconvolution for microscopy, tomographic reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Sanjay Viswanath , Manu Ghulyani , Muthuvel Arigovindan

Reconstructing an object's geometry and appearance from multiple images, also known as inverse rendering, is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and vision. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed because the captured image is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Akshat Dave , Yongyi Zhao , Ashok Veeraraghavan

In this paper, we propose a novel technique to reconstruct 3D surface of an underwater object using stereo images. Reconstructing the 3D surface of an underwater object is really a challenging task due to degraded quality of underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 C. J. Prabhakar , P. U. Praveen Kumar

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

This paper proposes three-filters-to-normal (3F2N), an accurate and ultrafast surface normal estimator (SNE), which is designed for structured range sensor data, e.g., depth/disparity images. 3F2N SNE computes surface normals by simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Rui Fan , Hengli Wang , Bohuan Xue , Huaiyang Huang , Yuan Wang , Ming Liu , Ioannis Pitas

SDF-based differential rendering frameworks have achieved state-of-the-art multiview 3D shape reconstruction. In this work, we re-examine this family of approaches by minimally reformulating its core appearance model in a way that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Briac Toussaint , Diego Thomas , Jean-Sébastien Franco

Neural implicit 3D reconstruction can reproduce shapes without 3D supervision, and it learns the 3D scene through volume rendering methods and neural implicit representations. Current neural surface reconstruction methods tend to randomly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Shikun Zhang , Yiqun Wang , Cunjian Chen , Yong Li , Qiuhong Ke

The vast majority of Shape-from-Polarization (SfP) methods work under the oversimplified assumption of using orthographic cameras. Indeed, it is still not well understood how to project the Stokes vectors when the incoming rays are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mara Pistellato , Filippo Bergamasco

This paper focuses on a new problem of estimating human pose and shape from single polarization images. Polarization camera is known to be able to capture the polarization of reflected lights that preserves rich geometric cues of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Yiming Qian , Chuan Guo , Li Cheng

Image-based 3D reconstruction is one of the most important tasks in Computer Vision with many solutions proposed over the last few decades. The objective is to extract metric information i.e. the geometry of scene objects directly from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

We present a novel deep learning-based approach to the 3D reconstruction of clothed humans using weak supervision via 2D normal maps. Given a single RGB image or multiview images, our network infers a signed distance function (SDF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jane Wu , Diego Thomas , Ronald Fedkiw

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Timur E. Gureyev , Hamish G. Brown , Harry M. Quiney , Leslie J. Allen

We propose spatial polarization multiplexing (SPM) for joint sensing of shape and reflectance of a static or dynamic deformable object, which is also invisible to the naked eye. Past structured-light methods are limited to shape acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tomoki Ichikawa , Ryo Kawahara , Ko Nishino

Achieving high-fidelity 3D surface reconstruction while preserving fine details remains challenging, especially in the presence of materials with complex reflectance properties and without a dense-view setup. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robin Bruneau , Baptiste Brument , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet