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The goal of this project is to learn a 3D shape representation that enables accurate surface reconstruction, compact storage, efficient computation, consistency for similar shapes, generalization across diverse shape categories, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Avneesh Sud , Aaron Sarna , Thomas Funkhouser

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

Signed distance-radiance field (SDF-NeRF) is a promising environment representation that offers both photo-realistic rendering and geometric reasoning such as proximity queries for collision avoidance. However, the slow training speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Runfa Blark Li , Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

We present a method for the accurate 3D reconstruction of partly-symmetric objects. We build on the strengths of recent advances in neural reconstruction and rendering such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). A major shortcoming of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Eldar Insafutdinov , Dylan Campbell , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

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

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

Implicit representations of geometry, such as occupancy fields or signed distance fields (SDF), have recently re-gained popularity in encoding 3D solid shape in a functional form. In this work, we introduce medial fields: a field function…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Rebain , Ke Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Soroosh Yazdani , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

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

We present SuperNormal, a fast, high-fidelity approach to multi-view 3D reconstruction using surface normal maps. With a few minutes, SuperNormal produces detailed surfaces on par with 3D scanners. We harness volume rendering to optimize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

A signed distance function (SDF) as the 3D shape description is one of the most effective approaches to represent 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. Our work is inspired by the state-of-the-art method DeepSDF that learns and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shun Yao , Fei Yang , Yongmei Cheng , Mikhail G. Mozerov

Recently, methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have shown that learning neural implicit surfaces through volume rendering is becoming increasingly popular and making good progress. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hanqi Jiang , Cheng Zeng , Runnan Chen , Shuai Liang , Yinhe Han , Yichao Gao , Conglin Wang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction aims to recover 3D HSI from its degraded 2D measurements. Recently great progress has been made in deep learning-based methods, however, these methods often struggle to accurately capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mingyang Yu , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang

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

We propose a novel 3D spatial representation for data fusion and scene reconstruction. Probabilistic Signed Distance Function (Probabilistic SDF, PSDF) is proposed to depict uncertainties in the 3D space. It is modeled by a joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wei Dong , Qiuyuan Wang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

Reconstructing detailed 3D scenes from single-view images remains a challenging task due to limitations in existing approaches, which primarily focus on geometric shape recovery, overlooking object appearances and fine shape details. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yixin Chen , Junfeng Ni , Nan Jiang , Yaowei Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

While many works focus on 3D reconstruction from images, in this paper, we focus on 3D shape reconstruction and completion from a variety of 3D inputs, which are deficient in some respect: low and high resolution voxels, sparse and dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Julian Chibane , Thiemo Alldieck , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this work we present a novel method for reconstructing 3D surfaces using a multi-beam imaging sonar. We integrate the intensities measured by the sonar from different viewpoints for fixed cell positions in a 3D grid. For each cell we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sascha Arnold , Bilal Wehbe

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

We propose a method to interpolate Signed Distance Function (SDF) data from a discrete set of samples. Unlike prior work, our approach ensures that the new SDF data values are fully consistent with the input and each other, such that the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Letao Chen , Sanju Mupparaju , Christopher Batty , Silvia Sellán , Oded Stein