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Implicit neural networks have been successfully used for surface reconstruction from point clouds. However, many of them face scalability issues as they encode the isosurface function of a whole object or scene into a single latent vector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and computer graphics. SDF-based methods excel at reconstructing smooth meshes with minimal error and artefacts but struggle with representing open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

We propose a novel method that renders point clouds as if they are surfaces. The proposed method is differentiable and requires no scene-specific optimization. This unique capability enables, out-of-the-box, surface normal estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Wei-Yu Chen , Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Oncel Tuzel

We introduce a novel learning-based, visibility-aware, surface reconstruction method for large-scale, defect-laden point clouds. Our approach can cope with the scale and variety of point cloud defects encountered in real-life Multi-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Raphael Sulzer , Loic Landrieu , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

Reconstructing a continuous surface from a raw 3D point cloud is a challenging task. Recent methods usually train neural networks to overfit on single point clouds to infer signed distance functions (SDFs). However, neural networks tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Takeshi Noda , Chao Chen , Weiqi Zhang , Xinhai Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present a fully Lagrangian particle level-set method based on high-order polynomial regression. This enables closest-point redistancing without requiring a regular Cartesian mesh, relaxing the need for particle-mesh interpolation.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lennart J. Schulze , Sachin K. T. Veettill , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is vital for 3D computer vision. State-of-the-art methods leverage large datasets to first learn local context priors that are represented as neural network-based signed distance functions (SDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Zhizhong Han

Learning implicit representations has been a widely used solution for surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds. The latest methods infer a distance or occupancy field by overfitting a neural network on a single point cloud. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In this paper, we present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shenxing Wei , Jinxi Li , Yafei Yang , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

We study algorithms to estimate geometric properties of raw point cloud data through implicit surface representations. Given that any level-set function with a constant level set corresponding to the surface can be used for such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Alex Shiu Lun Chu , Leevan Ling , Ka Chun Cheung

Point cloud data represents a crucial category of information for mathematical modeling, and surface reconstruction from such data is an important task across various disciplines. However, during the scanning process, the collected point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Liu

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

The reconstruction of a discrete surface from a point cloud is a fundamental geometry processing problem that has been studied for decades, with many methods developed. We propose the use of a deep neural network as a geometric prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Francis Williams , Teseo Schneider , Claudio Silva , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

Semantic scene understanding from point clouds is particularly challenging as the points reflect only a sparse set of the underlying 3D geometry. Previous works often convert point cloud into regular grids (e.g. voxels or bird-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yinyu Nie , Ji Hou , Xiaoguang Han , Matthias Nießner

3D urban reconstruction of buildings from remotely sensed imagery has drawn significant attention during the past two decades. While aerial imagery and LiDAR provide higher resolution, satellite imagery is cheaper and more efficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Bo Xu , Xu Zhang , Zhixin Li , Matt Leotta , Shih-Fu Chang , Jie Shan

Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

We present an approach to inform the reconstruction of a surface from a point scan through topological priors. The reconstruction is based on basis functions which are optimized to provide a good fit to the point scan while satisfying…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Primoz Skraba , Leonidas J. Guibas