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We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

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

We present iSDF, a continual learning system for real-time signed distance field (SDF) reconstruction. Given a stream of posed depth images from a moving camera, it trains a randomly initialised neural network to map input 3D coordinate to…

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

It is important to estimate an accurate signed distance function (SDF) from a point cloud in many computer vision applications. The latest methods learn neural SDFs using either a data-driven based or an overfitting-based strategy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning SDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

We explore a new idea for learning based shape reconstruction from a point cloud, based on the recently popularized implicit neural shape representations. We cast the problem as a few-shot learning of implicit neural signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

In recent years, implicit surface representations through neural networks that encode the signed distance have gained popularity and have achieved state-of-the-art results in various tasks (e.g. shape representation, shape reconstruction,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Petros Tzathas , Petros Maragos , Anastasios Roussos

Recently, neural implicit surfaces learning by volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. However, one key challenge remains: existing approaches lack explicit multi-view geometry constraints, hence usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Qiancheng Fu , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao

Surface reconstruction is very challenging when the input point clouds, particularly real scans, are noisy and lack normals. Observing that the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and the implicit moving least-square function (IMLS) provide a dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Pengfei Wang , Pengshuai Wang , Qiujie Dong , Junjie Gao , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Neural implicit representation is a promising approach for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds. Existing methods combine various regularization terms, such as the Eikonal and Laplacian energy terms, to enforce the learned neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Yunxiao Zhang , Rui Xu , Fan Zhang , Pengshuai Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han