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We introduce CN-DHF (Compact Neural Double-Height-Field), a novel hybrid neural implicit 3D shape representation that is dramatically more compact than the current state of the art. Our representation leverages Double-Height-Field (DHF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Eric Hedlin , Jinfan Yang , Nicholas Vining , Kwang Moo Yi , Alla Sheffer

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

This paper proposes a technique for efficiently modeling dynamic humans by explicifying the implicit neural fields via a Neural Explicit Surface (NES). Implicit neural fields have advantages over traditional explicit representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruiqi Zhang , Jie Chen , Qiang Wang

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

Deep neural representations of 3D shapes as implicit functions have been shown to produce high fidelity models surpassing the resolution-memory trade-off faced by the explicit representations using meshes and point clouds. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rahul Venkatesh , Tejan Karmali , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , László A. Jeni , Maneesh Singh

A neural implicit outputs a number indicating whether the given query point in space is inside, outside, or on a surface. Many prior works have focused on _latent-encoded_ neural implicits, where a latent vector encoding of a specific shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thomas Davies , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson

One of the main concerns in design and process planning for multi-axis additive and subtractive manufacturing is collision avoidance between moving objects (e.g., tool assemblies) and stationary objects (e.g., a part unified with fixtures).…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 George P. Harabin , Amir Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

The recent surge of utilizing deep neural networks for geometric processing and shape modeling has opened up exciting avenues. However, there is a conspicuous lack of research efforts on using powerful neural representations to extend the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Yang , Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Alla Sheffer , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Deep implicit surfaces excel at modeling generic shapes but do not always capture the regularities present in manufactured objects, which is something simple geometric primitives are particularly good at. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Subeesh Vasu , Nicolas Talabot , Artem Lukoianov , Pierre Baqué , Jonathan Donier , Pascal Fua

Neural shape representation generally refers to representing 3D geometry using neural networks, e.g., computing a signed distance or occupancy value at a specific spatial position. In this paper we present a neural-network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Stefan Rhys Jeske , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels , Jan Bender

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods seek to represent objects as semantically consistent part arrangements. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos , Andreas Geiger , Sanja Fidler

Recently introduced implicit field representations offer an effective way of generating 3D object shapes. They leverage implicit decoder trained to take a 3D point coordinate concatenated with a shape encoding and to output a value which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Magdalena Proszewska , Marcin Mazur , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

Accurate 3D shape representation is essential in engineering applications such as design, optimization, and simulation. In practice, engineering workflows require structured, part-based representations, as objects are inherently designed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Talabot , Olivier Clerc , Arda Cinar Demirtas , Alexis Goujon , Hieu Le , Doruk Oner , Pascal Fua

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

Deep implicit functions have shown remarkable shape modeling ability in various 3D computer vision tasks. One drawback is that it is hard for them to represent a 3D shape as multiple parts. Current solutions learn various primitives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han
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