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Neural Radiance Field(NeRF) is an novel implicit method to achieve the 3D reconstruction and representation with a high resolution. After the first research of NeRF is proposed, NeRF has gained a robust developing power and is booming in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jinwei Lin

The widespread adoption of implicit neural representations, especially Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), highlights a growing need for editing capabilities in implicit 3D models, essential for tasks like scene post-processing and 3D content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zhentao Huang , Yukun Shi , Neil Bruce , Minglun Gong

We introduce a Generalizable Neural Radiance Field approach for predicting 3D workspace occupancy from egocentric robot observations. Unlike prior methods operating in camera-centric coordinates, our model constructs occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Martin Gromniak , Jan-Gerrit Habekost , Sebastian Kamp , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Articulated objects pose a unique challenge for robotic perception and manipulation. Their increased number of degrees-of-freedom makes tasks such as localization computationally difficult, while also making the process of real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Stanley Lewis , Jana Pavlasek , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance and dynamics of a human face. Digitally modeling and reconstructing a talking human is a key building-block for a variety of applications. Especially, for telepresence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guy Gafni , Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming ubiquitous with the rise of consumer displays and commercial VR platforms. Such displays require low latency and high quality rendering of synthetic imagery with reduced compute overheads. Recent advances in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Nianchen Deng , Zhenyi He , Jiannan Ye , Budmonde Duinkharjav , Praneeth Chakravarthula , Xubo Yang , Qi Sun

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) bring a new wave for 3D interactive experiences. However, as an important part of the immersive experiences, the defocus effects have not been fully explored within NeRF. Some recent NeRF-based methods generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Yinhuai Wang , Shuzhou Yang , Yujie Hu , Jian Zhang

We present an implicit neural representation to learn the spatio-temporal space of kinematic motions. Unlike previous work that represents motion as discrete sequential samples, we propose to express the vast motion space as a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chengan He , Jun Saito , James Zachary , Holly Rushmeier , Yi Zhou

Neural radiance fields achieve unprecedented quality for novel view synthesis, but their volumetric formulation remains expensive, requiring a huge number of samples to render high-resolution images. Volumetric encodings are essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Merlin Nimier-David , Nicholas Sharp , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Sanja Fidler , Thomas Müller , Zan Gojcic

Synthesizing photo-realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are generated using rendering algorithms such as rasterization or…

As previous representations for reinforcement learning cannot effectively incorporate a human-intuitive understanding of the 3D environment, they usually suffer from sub-optimal performances. In this paper, we present Semantic-aware Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Dongseok Shim , Seungjae Lee , H. Jin Kim

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) learn to represent a 3D scene from just a set of registered images. Increasing sizes of a scene demands more complex functions, typically represented by neural networks, to capture all details. Training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Tim Elsner , Victor Czech , Julia Berger , Zain Selman , Isaak Lim , Leif Kobbelt

Inferring representations of 3D scenes from 2D observations is a fundamental problem of computer graphics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Emerging 3D-structured neural scene representations are a promising approach to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Vincent Sitzmann , Semon Rezchikov , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Fredo Durand

Neural radiance fields are an emerging 3D scene representation and recently even been extended to learn features for scene understanding by distilling open-vocabulary features from vision-language models. However, current method primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Sebastian Koch , Johanna Wald , Mirco Colosi , Narunas Vaskevicius , Pedro Hermosilla , Federico Tombari , Timo Ropinski

Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and its variants have exhibited great success on representing 3D scenes and synthesizing photo-realistic novel views. However, they are generally based on the pinhole camera model and assume all-in-focus inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zijin Wu , Xingyi Li , Juewen Peng , Hao Lu , Zhiguo Cao , Weicai Zhong

Over the recent years, the field of robotics has been undergoing a transformative paradigm shift from fixed, single-task, domain-specific solutions towards adaptive, multi-function, general-purpose agents, capable of operating in complex,…

Recent history has seen a tremendous growth of work exploring implicit representations of geometry and radiance, popularized through Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Such works are fundamentally based on a (implicit) volumetric representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jason Y. Zhang , Gengshan Yang , Shubham Tulsiani , Deva Ramanan

Neural Radiation Field (NeRF) technology can learn a 3D implicit model of a scene from 2D images and synthesize realistic novel view images. This technology has received widespread attention from the industry and has good application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shun Fang , Ming Cui , Xing Feng , Yanna Lv