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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which…

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A robot self-model is a task-agnostic representation of the robot's physical morphology that can be used for motion planning tasks in the absence of a classical geometric kinematic model. In particular, when the latter is hard to engineer…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has become a popular framework for learning implicit 3D representations and addressing different tasks such as novel-view synthesis or depth-map estimation. However, in downstream applications where decisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jianxiong Shen , Adria Ruiz , Antonio Agudo , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

In recent years, Neural Fields (NFs) have emerged as an effective tool for encoding diverse continuous signals such as images, videos, audio, and 3D shapes. When applied to 3D data, NFs offer a solution to the fragmentation and limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Luca De Luigi , Daniele Sirocchi , Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Francesco Ballerini , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Neural rendering techniques combining machine learning with geometric reasoning have arisen as one of the most promising approaches for synthesizing novel views of a scene from a sparse set of images. Among these, stands out the Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Albert Pumarola , Enric Corona , Gerard Pons-Moll , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We present Neural Kernel Fields: a novel method for reconstructing implicit 3D shapes based on a learned kernel ridge regression. Our technique achieves state-of-the-art results when reconstructing 3D objects and large scenes from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Francis Williams , Zan Gojcic , Sameh Khamis , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

In recent years, substantial progress has been achieved in learning-based reconstruction of 3D objects. At the same time, generative models were proposed that can generate highly realistic images. However, despite this success in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Michael Oechsle , Lars Mescheder , Michael Niemeyer , Thilo Strauss , Andreas Geiger

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proven to be powerful 3D representations, capable of high quality novel view synthesis of complex scenes. While NeRFs have been applied to graphics, vision, and robotics, problems with slow rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Ashkan Mirzaei , Marcus A. Brubaker , Jonathan Kelly , Alex Levinshtein , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Igor Gilitschenski

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a standard framework for representing 3D scenes and objects, introducing a novel data type for information exchange and storage. Concurrently, significant progress has been made in multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Francesco Ballerini , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Roberto Mirabella , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Humans have a strong intuitive understanding of the 3D environment around us. The mental model of the physics in our brain applies to objects of different materials and enables us to perform a wide range of manipulation tasks that are far…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yunzhu Li , Shuang Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Pulkit Agrawal , Antonio Torralba

Recent neural networks based surface reconstruction can be roughly divided into two categories, one warping templates explicitly and the other representing 3D surfaces implicitly. To enjoy the advantages of both, we propose a novel 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

Neural radiance fields, or NeRF, represent a breakthrough in the field of novel view synthesis and 3D modeling of complex scenes from multi-view image collections. Numerous recent works have shown the importance of making NeRF models more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Thibaud Ehret , Roger Marí , Gabriele Facciolo

Dynamic scene representation and reconstruction have undergone transformative advances in recent years, catalyzed by breakthroughs in neural radiance fields and 3D Gaussian splatting techniques. While initially developed for static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jinlong Fan , Xuepu Zeng , Jing Zhang , Mingming Gong , Yuxiang Yang , Dacheng Tao

This work leverages neural radiance fields and remote sensing for forestry applications. Here, we show neural radiance fields offer a wide range of possibilities to improve upon existing remote sensing methods in forest monitoring. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Juan Castorena

Robotic technology has the potential to revolutionize the field of neurology by providing new methods for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of neurological disorders. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the…

Recent advances in neural scene representations have led to unprecedented quality in 3D reconstruction and view synthesis. Despite achieving high-quality results for common benchmarks with curated data, outputs often degrade for data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Niemeyer , Fabian Manhardt , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Oechsle , Christina Tsalicoglou , Keisuke Tateno , Jonathan T. Barron , Federico Tombari

With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance, allowing to conduct view synthesis using differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Diego Martin Arroyo , Michael Niemeyer , Abhijit Kundu , Federico Tombari

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for the representation of natural, complex 3D scenes. NeRFs represent continuous volumetric density and RGB values in a neural network, and generate photo-realistic…

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are able to synthesize realistic novel views from multi-view images captured from distinct positions and perspectives. In NeRF's rendering pipeline, neural networks are used to represent a scene independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kang Han , Wei Xiang , Lu Yu

In March 2020, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) revolutionized Computer Vision, allowing for implicit, neural network-based scene representation and novel view synthesis. NeRF models have found diverse applications in robotics, urban mapping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kyle Gao , Yina Gao , Hongjie He , Dening Lu , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li