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3D scene reconstruction is fundamental for spatial intelligence applications such as AR, robotics, and digital twins. Traditional multi-view stereo struggles with sparse viewpoints or low-texture regions, while neural rendering approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiaqi Yao , Zhongmiao Yan , Jingyi Xu , Songpengcheng Xia , Yan Xiang , Ling Pei

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

The reconstruction of 3D objects from calibrated photographs represents a fundamental yet intricate challenge in the domains of computer graphics and vision. Although neural reconstruction approaches based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Chen Du , Truong Nguyen

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

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted widespread attention due to its high-quality rendering, and ultra-fast training and rendering speed. However, due to the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Danpeng Chen , Hai Li , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Weijian Xie , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

Recent work has made significant progress on using implicit functions, as a continuous representation for 3D rigid object shape reconstruction. However, much less effort has been devoted to modeling general articulated objects. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jiteng Mu , Weichao Qiu , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang

Neural rendering can be used to reconstruct implicit representations of shapes without 3D supervision. However, current neural surface reconstruction methods have difficulty learning high-frequency geometry details, so the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yiqun Wang , Ivan Skorokhodov , Peter Wonka

Reconstructing transparent surfaces is essential for tasks such as robotic manipulation in labs, yet it poses a significant challenge for 3D reconstruction techniques like 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). These methods often encounter a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mingwei Li , Pu Pang , Hehe Fan , Hua Huang , Yi Yang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for accurately representing scenes. However, despite its superior novel view synthesis capabilities, extracting the geometry of the scene directly from the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yaniv Wolf , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has significantly advanced 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), 3DGS struggles with accurately modeling physical reflections, particularly in mirrors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jiarui Meng , Haijie Li , Yanmin Wu , Qiankun Gao , Shuzhou Yang , Jian Zhang , Siwei Ma

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

In this work, we present a new method for 3D face reconstruction from sparse-view RGB images. Unlike previous methods which are built upon 3D morphable models (3DMMs) with limited details, we leverage an implicit representation to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Moran Li , Haibin Huang , Yi Zheng , Mengtian Li , Nong Sang , Chongyang Ma

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

Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction showcases advanced Image-to-3D content creation but requires substantial computational resources and large datasets, posing challenges to training models from scratch. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Xiufeng Huang , Ka Chun Cheung , Runmin Cong , Simon See , Renjie Wan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a leading approach for high-quality novel view synthesis, with numerous variants extending its applicability to a broad spectrum of 3D and 4D scene reconstruction tasks. Despite its success, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yiming Wang , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Siyu Tang

Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Recent advances in learning 3D shapes using neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results by breaking the previous barrier of resolution and diversity for varying topologies. However, most of such approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Weikai Chen , Cheng Lin , Weiyang Li , Bo Yang