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Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction has emerged as a popular paradigm for multi-view 3D reconstruction. Unlike traditional multi-view stereo approaches, the neural implicit surface-based methods leverage neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qianyi Wu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Kejie Li , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger

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

This paper presents a method, namely NeuS-PIR, for recovering relightable neural surfaces using pre-integrated rendering from multi-view images or video. Unlike methods based on NeRF and discrete meshes, our method utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shi Mao , Chenming Wu , Zhelun Shen , Yifan Wang , Dayan Wu , Liangjun Zhang

We present a novel method, called NeTO, for capturing 3D geometry of solid transparent objects from 2D images via volume rendering. Reconstructing transparent objects is a very challenging task, which is ill-suited for general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Zongcheng Li , Xiaoxiao Long , Yusen Wang , Tuo Cao , Wenping Wang , Fei Luo , Chunxia Xiao

Learning neural implicit surfaces from volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. Neural surface reconstruction approaches can recover complex 3D geometry that are difficult for classical Multi-view Stereo (MVS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mohamed Shawky Sabae , Hoda Anis Baraka , Mayada Mansour Hadhoud

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

NeRF-based techniques fit wide and deep multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to a continuous radiance field that can be rendered from any unseen viewpoint. However, the lack of surface and normals definition and high rendering times limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Stefano Esposito , Daniele Baieri , Stefan Zellmann , André Hinkenjann , Emanuele Rodolà

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

Recently, neural implicit 3D reconstruction in indoor scenarios has become popular due to its simplicity and impressive performance. Previous works could produce complete results leveraging monocular priors of normal or depth. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xinghui Li , Yuchen Ji , Xiansong Lai , Wanting Zhang

This comparative study evaluates various neural surface reconstruction methods, particularly focusing on their implications for scientific visualization through reconstructing 3D surfaces via multi-view rendering images. We categorize ten…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Siyuan Yao , Weixi Song , Chaoli Wang

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is conducted to infer invisible scenes from indirect light on visible objects. The neural transient field (NeTF) was proposed for representing scenes as neural radiance fields in NLOS scenes. We propose NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuki Fujimura , Takahiro Kushida , Takuya Funatomi , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa

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

This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jianheng Liu , Chunran Zheng , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

Our objective is to leverage a differentiable radiance field \eg NeRF to reconstruct detailed 3D surfaces in addition to producing the standard novel view renderings. There have been related methods that perform such tasks, usually by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yida Wang , David Joseph Tan , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Representing 3D objects and scenes with neural radiance fields has become very popular over the last years. Recently, surface-based representations have been proposed, that allow to reconstruct 3D objects from simple photographs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sarthak Gupta , Patrik Huber

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma