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Deep implicit functions (DIFs), as a kind of 3D shape representation, are becoming more and more popular in the 3D vision community due to their compactness and strong representation power. However, unlike polygon mesh-based templates, it…

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We present a StyleGAN2-based deep learning approach for 3D shape generation, called SDF-StyleGAN, with the aim of reducing visual and geometric dissimilarity between generated shapes and a shape collection. We extend StyleGAN2 to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Xin-Yang Zheng , Yang Liu , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong

Learning 3D shape representation with dense correspondence for deformable objects is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Existing approaches often need additional annotations of specific semantic domain, e.g., skeleton poses for human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Baowen Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaoming Deng , Yinda Zhang , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

Recent advances in implicit neural representations have made them a popular choice for modeling 3D geometry, achieving impressive results in tasks such as shape representation, reconstruction, and learning priors. However, directly editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Fizza Rubab , Yiying Tong

Multi-view shape reconstruction has achieved impressive progresses thanks to the latest advances in neural implicit surface rendering. However, existing methods based on signed distance function (SDF) are limited to closed surfaces, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yu-Tao Liu , Li Wang , Jie yang , Weikai Chen , Xiaoxu Meng , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

In recent years, the neural implicit surface has emerged as a powerful representation for multi-view surface reconstruction due to its simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. However, reconstructing smooth and detailed surfaces in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuting Xiao , Jingwei Xu , Zehao Yu , Shenghua Gao

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Generating safe motion plans in real-time is a key requirement for deploying robot manipulators to assist humans in collaborative settings. In particular, robots must satisfy strict safety requirements to avoid self-damage or harming nearby…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jonathan Michaux , Qingyi Chen , Yongseok Kwon , Ram Vasudevan

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), characterized by neural network-encoded signed distance fields, provide a powerful means to represent complex geometries continuously and efficiently. While successful in computer vision and…

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Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

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

Humans rely on their visual and tactile senses to develop a comprehensive 3D understanding of their physical environment. Recently, there has been a growing interest in exploring and manipulating objects using data-driven approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mauro Comi , Yijiong Lin , Alex Church , Alessio Tonioni , Laurence Aitchison , Nathan F. Lepora

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

State-of-the-art neural implicit surface representations have achieved impressive results in indoor scene reconstruction by incorporating monocular geometric priors as additional supervision. However, we have observed that multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ziyi Chen , Xiaolong Wu , Yu Zhang