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Text-driven 3D scene generation techniques have made rapid progress in recent years. Their success is mainly attributed to using existing generative models to iteratively perform image warping and inpainting to generate 3D scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Frank Zhang , Yibo Zhang , Quan Zheng , Rui Ma , Wei Hua , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu , Changqing Zou

Robotic grasping of house-hold objects has made remarkable progress in recent years. Yet, human grasps are still difficult to synthesize realistically. There are several key reasons: (1) the human hand has many degrees of freedom (more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Jinlong Yang , Yan Zhang , Michael Black , Krikamol Muandet , Siyu Tang

Radiance field methods such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have revolutionized graphics and novel view synthesis. Their ability to synthesize new viewpoints with photo-realistic quality, as well as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Maximum Wilder-Smith , Vaishakh Patil , Marco Hutter

Efficient scene representations are essential for many real-world applications, especially those involving spatial measurement. Although current NeRF-based methods have achieved impressive results in reconstructing building-scale scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jianlin Guo , Haihong Xiao , Wenxiong Kang

Gaussian Splatting has rapidly emerged as a transformative technique for real-time 3D scene representation, offering a highly efficient and expressive alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Its ability to render complex scenes with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mahmoud Chick Zaouali , Todd Charter , Yehor Karpichev , Brandon Haworth , Homayoun Najjaran

Recent advances in mapping techniques have enabled the creation of highly accurate dense 3D maps during robotic missions, such as point clouds, meshes, or NeRF-based representations. These developments present new opportunities for reusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lintong Zhang , Yifu Tao , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang , Maurice Fallon

In this work, we address the lack of 3D understanding of generative neural networks by introducing a persistent 3D feature embedding for view synthesis. To this end, we propose DeepVoxels, a learned representation that encodes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vincent Sitzmann , Justus Thies , Felix Heide , Matthias Nießner , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael Zollhöfer

3D shape is a crucial but heavily underutilized cue in today's computer vision systems, mostly due to the lack of a good generic shape representation. With the recent availability of inexpensive 2.5D depth sensors (e.g. Microsoft Kinect),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Zhirong Wu , Shuran Song , Aditya Khosla , Fisher Yu , Linguang Zhang , Xiaoou Tang , Jianxiong Xiao

Recent advances in computer graphics and computer vision have found successful application of deep neural network models for 3D shapes based on signed distance functions (SDFs) that are useful for shape representation, retrieval, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oladapo Afolabi , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Neural Fields have emerged as a transformative approach for 3D scene representation in computer vision and robotics, enabling accurate inference of geometry, 3D semantics, and dynamics from posed 2D data. Leveraging differentiable…

Learning generalizable robotic manipulation policies remains a key challenge due to the scarcity of diverse real-world training data. While recent approaches have attempted to mitigate this through self-supervised representation learning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jingyi Tian , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Sen Wang , Jiayi Li , Gang Hua

The polygon mesh representation of 3D data exhibits great flexibility, fast rendering speed, and storage efficiency, which is widely preferred in various applications. However, given its unstructured graph representation, the direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Sijin Chen , Xin Chen , Anqi Pang , Xianfang Zeng , Wei Cheng , Yijun Fu , Fukun Yin , Yanru Wang , Zhibin Wang , Chi Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu , Bin Fu , Tao Chen

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

Recent advances in machine learning have created increasing interest in solving visual computing problems using a class of coordinate-based neural networks that parametrize physical properties of scenes or objects across space and time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yiheng Xie , Towaki Takikawa , Shunsuke Saito , Or Litany , Shiqin Yan , Numair Khan , Federico Tombari , James Tompkin , Vincent Sitzmann , Srinath Sridhar

Real-time detection of objects in the 3D scene is one of the tasks an autonomous agent needs to perform for understanding its surroundings. While recent Deep Learning-based solutions achieve satisfactory performance, their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Illia Oleksiienko , Alexandros Iosifidis

Volumetric rendering has become central to modern novel view synthesis methods, which use differentiable rendering to optimize 3D scene representations directly from observed views. While many recent works build on NeRF or 3D Gaussians, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nicolas von Lützow , Matthias Nießner

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su

3D scene modeling techniques serve as the bedrocks in the geospatial engineering and computer science, which drives many applications ranging from automated driving, terrain mapping, navigation, virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shuang Song

The success of neural fields for 3D vision tasks is now indisputable. Following this trend, several methods aiming for visual localization (e.g., SLAM) have been proposed to estimate distance or density fields using neural fields. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Itsuki Ueda , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Hiroaki Aizawa , Hidehiko Shishido , Itaru Kitahara

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted significant attention for its potential to revolutionize 3D representation, rendering, and interaction. Despite the rapid growth of 3DGS research, its direct application to Extended Reality (XR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Shi Qiu , Binzhu Xie , Qixuan Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng