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Recently, neural implicit surfaces learning by volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. However, one key challenge remains: existing approaches lack explicit multi-view geometry constraints, hence usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Qiancheng Fu , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao

Neural reconstruction and rendering strategies have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances due, in part, to their ability to preserve high level shape details. Existing approaches, however, either represent objects as implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Angtian Wang , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Edmond Boyer , Alan Yuille , Tony Tung

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have constituted a remarkable breakthrough in image-based 3D reconstruction. However, their implicit volumetric representations differ significantly from the widely-adopted polygonal meshes and lack support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jiaxiang Tang , Hang Zhou , Xiaokang Chen , Tianshu Hu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Gang Zeng

Reconstructing the surrounding surface geometry from recorded driving sequences poses a significant challenge due to the limited image overlap and complex topology of urban environments. SoTA neural implicit surface reconstruction methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fusang Wang , Hala Djeghim , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Yizhe WU , Fabien Moutarde , Désiré Sidibé , Dzmitry Tsishkou

Capturing the 3D geometry of transparent objects is a challenging task, ill-suited for general-purpose scanning and reconstruction techniques, since these cannot handle specular light transport phenomena. Existing state-of-the-art methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiahui Lyu , Bojian Wu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jan Bednařík , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

This paper proposes a novel neural-network-based adaptive hybrid-reflectance three-dimensional (3-D) surface reconstruction model. The neural network combines the diffuse and specular components into a hybrid model. The proposed model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Vincy Joseph , Shalini Bhatia

We present a novel method for 3D surface reconstruction from multiple images where only a part of the object of interest is captured. Our approach builds on two recent developments: surface reconstruction using neural radiance fields for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Savva Ignatyev , Daniil Selikhanovych , Oleg Voynov , Yiqun Wang , Peter Wonka , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , Evgeny Burnaev

We present a novel method for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from a large-scale, sparse, and noisy point cloud. Our approach builds upon the recently introduced Neural Kernel Fields (NKF) representation. It enjoys similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jiahui Huang , Zan Gojcic , Matan Atzmon , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler , Francis Williams

Numerous techniques have been proposed for reconstructing 3D models for opaque objects in past decades. However, none of them can be directly applied to transparent objects. This paper presents a fully automatic approach for reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Yiming Qian , Minglun Gong , Hui Huang

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

Reconstructing general dynamic scenes is important for many computer vision and graphics applications. Recent works represent the dynamic scene with neural radiance fields for photorealistic view synthesis, while their surface geometry is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Decai Chen , Haofei Lu , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Photorealistic object appearance modeling from 2D images is a constant topic in vision and graphics. While neural implicit methods (such as Neural Radiance Fields) have shown high-fidelity view synthesis results, they cannot relight the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Hong-Xing Yu , Michelle Guo , Alireza Fathi , Yen-Yu Chang , Eric Ryan Chan , Ruohan Gao , Thomas Funkhouser , Jiajun Wu

Robotic grasping in scenes with transparent and specular objects presents great challenges for methods relying on accurate depth information. In this paper, we introduce NeuGrasp, a neural surface reconstruction method that leverages…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Qingyu Fan , Yinghao Cai , Chao Li , Wenzhe He , Xudong Zheng , Tao Lu , Bin Liang , Shuo Wang

Recent methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have demonstrated the remarkably high-quality reconstruction of static scenes. However, the training of NeuS takes an extremely long time (8 hours), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yiming Wang , Qin Han , Marc Habermann , Kostas Daniilidis , Christian Theobalt , Lingjie Liu

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

The emergence of neural and Gaussian-based radiance field methods has led to considerable advancements in novel view synthesis and 3D object reconstruction. Nonetheless, specular reflection and refraction continue to pose significant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Letian Huang , Dongwei Ye , Jialin Dan , Chengzhi Tao , Huiwen Liu , Kun Zhou , Bo Ren , Yuanqi Li , Yanwen Guo , Jie Guo

Reconstructing accurate implicit surface representations from point clouds remains a challenging task, particularly when data is captured using low-quality scanning devices. These point clouds often contain substantial noise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tengkai Wang , Weihao Li , Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Nick Barnes