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Neural fields have gained significant attention in the computer vision community due to their excellent performance in novel view synthesis, geometry reconstruction, and generative modeling. Some of their advantages are a sound theoretic…

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A signed distance function (SDF) as the 3D shape description is one of the most effective approaches to represent 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. Our work is inspired by the state-of-the-art method DeepSDF that learns and…

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This work proposes an optimization-based manipulation planning framework where the objectives are learned functionals of signed-distance fields that represent objects in the scene. Most manipulation planning approaches rely on analytical…

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Neural implicit surface reconstruction with signed distance function has made significant progress, but recovering fine details such as thin structures and complex geometries remains challenging due to unreliable or noisy geometric priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qiyu Feng , Jiwei Shan , Shing Shin Cheng , Hesheng Wang

Representing crystal structures of materials to facilitate determining them via neural networks is crucial for enabling machine-learning applications involving crystal structure estimation. Among these applications, the inverse design of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-15 Naoya Chiba , Yuta Suzuki , Tatsunori Taniai , Ryo Igarashi , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Kotaro Saito , Kanta Ono

Neural shape models can represent complex 3D shapes with a compact latent space. When applied to dynamically deforming shapes such as the human hands, however, they would need to preserve temporal coherence of the deformation as well as the…

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Deep learning is changing many areas in molecular physics, and it has shown great potential to deliver new solutions to challenging molecular modeling problems. Along with this trend arises the increasing demand of expressive and versatile…

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Recent methods for synthesizing 3D-aware face images have achieved rapid development thanks to neural radiance fields, allowing for high quality and fast inference speed. However, existing solutions for editing facial geometry and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kaiwen Jiang , Shu-Yu Chen , Feng-Lin Liu , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

We study data-driven representations for three-dimensional triangle meshes, which are one of the prevalent objects used to represent 3D geometry. Recent works have developed models that exploit the intrinsic geometry of manifolds and…

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Deep learning has transformed computational imaging, but traditional pixel-based representations limit their ability to capture continuous, multiscale details of objects. Here we introduce a novel Local Conditional Neural Fields (LCNF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Hao Wang , Jiabei Zhu , Yunzhe Li , QianWan Yang , Lei Tian

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received a lot of interest in the recent times. From the early spectral architectures that could only operate on undirected graphs per a transductive learning paradigm to the current state of the art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Pushkar Mishra , Aleksandra Piktus , Gerard Goossen , Fabrizio Silvestri

Neural gas (NG) is a robust vector quantization algorithm with a well-known mathematical model. According to this, the neural gas samples the underlying data distribution following a power law with a magnification exponent that depends on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Giacomo Parigi , Andrea Pedrini , Marco Piastra

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

In recent years, neural signed distance function (SDF) has become one of the most effective representation methods for 3D models. By learning continuous SDFs in 3D space, neural networks can predict the distance from a given query space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yuanzhan Li , Yuqi Liu , Yujie Lu , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai , Yanting Zhang

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

Combining the signed distance function (SDF) and differentiable volume rendering has emerged as a powerful paradigm for surface reconstruction from multi-view images without 3D supervision. However, current methods are impeded by requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rui Peng , Xiaodong Gu , Luyang Tang , Shihe Shen , Fanqi Yu , Ronggang Wang

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…

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