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Learning implicit surface directly from raw data recently has become a very attractive representation method for 3D reconstruction tasks due to its excellent performance. However, as the raw data quality deteriorates, the implicit functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Xiaogang Wang , Yuhang Cheng , Liang Wang , Jiangbo Lu , Kai Xu , Guoqiang Xiao

This paper proposes a deep-learning-based method for recovering a signed distance function (SDF) of a given hypersurface represented by an implicit level set function. Using the flexibility of constructing a neural network, we use an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yesom Park , Chang hoon Song , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

We present a novel method to interpolate smoke and liquid simulations in order to perform data-driven fluid simulations. Our approach calculates a dense space-time deformation using grid-based signed-distance functions of the inputs. A key…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Nils Thuerey

This work proposes a new formulation to the long-standing problem of convex decomposition through learning feature fields, enabling the first feed-forward model for open-world convex decomposition. Our method produces high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuezhi Yang , Qixing Huang , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Nicholas Sharp

This paper is motivated from a fundamental curiosity on what defines a category of object shapes. For example, we may have the common knowledge that a plane has wings, and a chair has legs. Given the large shape variations among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chaozheng Wu , Lin Sun , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Recently, neural implicit functions have demonstrated remarkable results in the field of multi-view reconstruction. However, most existing methods are tailored for dense views and exhibit unsatisfactory performance when dealing with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Han Huang , Yulun Wu , Junsheng Zhou , Ge Gao , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Implicit functions represented as deep learning approximations are powerful for reconstructing 3D surfaces. However, they can only produce static surfaces that are not controllable, which provides limited ability to modify the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Cristian Sminchisescu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We extend the Locally-Subdivided Neural Intersection Function (LSNIF) to support parameterized deformable and animated geometry. Our approach introduces a rest-space and deformed-space formulation inspired by meshless rendering, allowing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chih-Chen Kao , Grzegorz Makowski , Shin Fujieda , Takahiro Harada

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

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

The medial axis, a lower-dimensional descriptor that captures the extrinsic structure of a shape, plays an important role in digital geometry processing. Despite its importance, computing the medial axis transform robustly from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Jun Luo , Shiqing Xin , Fei Hou , Hanqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Ying He

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

Efficient and fast reconstruction of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in clinical practice. Minimizing retrieval and processing times not only potentially enhances swift response and decision-making in critical scenarios but also…

We present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as sinusoidal neural networks, are coordinate-based MLPs that are both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Navami Kairanda , Shanthika Naik , Marc Habermann , Avinash Sharma , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

Phase field modelling offers an extremely general framework to predict microstructural evolutions in complex systems. However, its computational implementation requires a discretisation scheme with a grid spacing small enough to preserve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Alphonse Finel , Yann Le Bouar , Benoît Dabas , Benoît Appolaire

Latest methods represent shapes with open surfaces using unsigned distance functions (UDFs). They train neural networks to learn UDFs and reconstruct surfaces with the gradients around the zero level set of the UDF. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present the list of unavoidable local phenomena (transitions) occurring on the configuration of the parabolic and flecnodal curves of evolving smooth surfaces in R^3 (or RP^3). We also present the list of transitions occurring on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

In computer graphics and vision, recovering easily modifiable scene appearance from image data is crucial for applications such as content creation. We introduce a novel method that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with an implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jakub Szymkowiak , Weronika Jakubowska , Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Maciej Zięba , Przemyslaw Musialski , Wojtek Pałubicki , Przemysław Spurek

Implicit neural rendering, especially Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), has shown great potential in novel view synthesis of a scene. However, current NeRF-based methods cannot enable users to perform user-controlled shape deformation in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yu-Jie Yuan , Yang-Tian Sun , Yu-Kun Lai , Yuewen Ma , Rongfei Jia , Lin Gao

The level-set method is a popular interface tracking method in two-phase flow simulations. An often-cited reason for using it is that the method naturally handles topological changes in the interface, e.g. merging drops, due to the implicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-29 Åsmund Ervik , Karl Yngve Lervåg , Svend Tollak Munkejord