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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…

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Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

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Neural implicit shape representation has drawn significant attention in recent years due to its smoothness, differentiability, and topological flexibility. However, directly modeling the shape of a neural implicit surface, especially as the…

We present a method that learns neural shadow fields which are neural scene representations that are only learnt from the shadows present in the scene. While traditional shape-from-shadow (SfS) algorithms reconstruct geometry from shadows,…

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We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

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3D Shape representation has substantial effects on 3D shape reconstruction. Primitive-based representations approximate a 3D shape mainly by a set of simple implicit primitives, but the low geometrical complexity of the primitives limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Mohsen Yavartanoo , JaeYoung Chung , Reyhaneh Neshatavar , Kyoung Mu Lee

Neural fields have emerged as a powerful representation for 3D geometry, enabling compact and continuous modeling of complex shapes. Despite their expressive power, manipulating neural fields in a controlled and accurate manner --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà , Simone Melzi , Zorah Lähner

Deep learning-based 3D medical image segmentation methods relies on large-scale labeled datasets, yet acquiring such data is difficult due to privacy constraints and the high cost of expert annotation. Formula-Driven Supervised Learning…

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Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been constructed with explicit representations such as meshes and voxel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Dieuwertje Alblas , Christoph Brune , Kak Khee Yeung , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Implicit neural representations (INRs) mark a fundamental shift in signal modeling, moving from discrete sampled data to continuous functional representations. By parameterizing signals as neural networks, INRs provide a unified framework…

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In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based framework for 3D shape registration, which overcomes the challenges of significant non-rigid deformation and partiality undergoing among input shapes, and, remarkably, requires no…

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Neural implicit fields, such as the neural signed distance field (SDF) of a shape, have emerged as a powerful representation for many applications, e.g., encoding a 3D shape and performing collision detection. Typically, implicit fields are…

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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…

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Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

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

We present MatDecompSDF, a novel framework for recovering high-fidelity 3D shapes and decomposing their physically-based material properties from multi-view images. The core challenge of inverse rendering lies in the ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chengyu Wang , Isabella Bennett , Henry Scott , Liang Zhang , Mei Chen , Hao Li , Rui Zhao

While Signed Distance Fields (SDF) are well-established for modeling watertight surfaces, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDF) broaden the scope to include open surfaces and models with complex inner structures. Despite their flexibility, UDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cheng Xu , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Zhebin Zhang , Ying He

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou